St Mel High School - Knight Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Bookkeeping forms an impor- tant part of our training for out- ol-school life, Gerald Graham and Frank Lentine look puzzled now, though. Theodore Kuby seems to have met his Waterloo as Pat Napoleon finishes a little Shorthand message. Complicated worksheets take a lot of time and patient effort, but orderly business could not be done without them. Donald Wood in the rear, Don- ald Crowder, Arthur Jesse, Jerome Bednarkiewicz, and Thomas Bar- nicle strive for accuracy in their first year of typing. Next year, like Donald Feist and Frank Kennedy, standing, and John Fisherkeller, Paul St. Laurent, and Philip Deike they can concentrate on speed. P

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Typewriting is not too hard the way beginners type, from books. The hard part is putting back into words the shorthand notes we took in dictation. Plenty of practice makes us good at both. Once like all high schools, St. Mel was almost exclusively a Commercial Academy. Nowadays about 40 per cent of the Seniors are in either the Secretarial or General Commercial Courses. Both groups are carefully trained for business, but the General group is given more immediate preparation for employment while the Secretarial Course usu- ally looks ahead to further schooling after high school. Informed by commercialists of an open field for male secre- taries, they spend long hours mastering the Gregg symbols and become well-trained in Stenography. At the present time the valuable skill of typewriting is only available to Commercial students, but plans seem underway to allow an increasing number to benefit by this necessary training, which is nearly indispensable in many types of work, and helpful in almost all. Brother Eugene, with forty years' experience of teaching in the Commercial field is dean of this section, while Mr. Bowler, who began teaching here twenty years ago, teaches Bookkeeping and Brother Bernard handles Stenography. Mathematics of some kind is es- sential in every field of instruction and in every walk of life. A wide variety of courses are offered at St. Mel. All students take at least three years of Math adapted to their par- ticular course of studies. Here Fred Laccabue explains a theorem from solid geometry, the most advanced course, to Harry Bardwell and Don- ald Baumgartner.

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Jafin, .glue Cyzurcfzii :saving a guage Top Left: Caesar, one of the world's greatest generals, is a familiar but not too popular figure for second year Latin students. Here George Jerz helps Anthony Rufiolo diagram one of his complicated sentences. Diagramming helps the students see the purpose of each word in the sentence and its relation to the others. Top Right: Learning coniugations and declensions is an- other difficult thing at the beginning of foreign language study, but here Joseph Burianek seems to need very little prompting from John Sweeney to conjugate the subiunctive imperfect passive of a rather complex word. Norbert Talend dares him to try pronouncing all those syllables. Lower Left: Stanley Sierocinski and Lawrence O'Connor try to figure out just what was the relation of Venus to Aeneas in preparation for an examination in third year Latin. Lower Right: Joseph Pavila, William Murphy, Stanley Waida, and Alan Benning struggle through the hard- est part of Latin, the first year's drills on nouns and verbs. 24