St Stephens Academy - Academician Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Commercial Classes Help Develop Skills Students at St. Stephen High prepare for future clerical work by taking commercial courses. Subjects such as typ- ing, shorthand, and general business enable these people to become acquainted with everyday duties of office workers. Combining finger dexterity and concentration, students are given the opportunity to build up their speed and accuracy in typing classes under the direction of Sister Marie Arthur. Knowing how to type is a valuable asset regardless of the career students may choose to enter. Symbols take the place of words in shorthand classes. Sister Evangelista endeavors to help her students to attain a final goal of writing one hundred forty words a minute by the end of the year. HELP! HELP — Diane Dolinar seems quite confused by the maze of tape before her until the instructor, Sister Marie Arthur, comes to her rescue. Oblivious of Diane ' s complete confusion, other first-year typists are intent on the accuracy of their own work. Front row — L. to r. : Kathalina Jeziorski, and Janet McIntyre. Back row — L. to r.: Richard East and Donald Hepting.

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Are Important to Jrt and Drafting Students Architectural devices are studied by seniors, as they look over blueprints for a new home. Sister Thomas Jobbitt, Norman DeFrain, and James Carpa Mary William, instructor, smiles her approval. After a year ' s absence, art was again added to the curriculum. This class of high school art was open to all who wished to express their artistic urge. Various media, which included charcoal, pencil, pastels, and paints became the creative tools of the class. The young artists displayed their ability in life sketching and modem art. Drafting is the skill which translates an engineering idea into lines and dimensions on a piece of paper. Training, practice, patience, and attention to detail are the ingredients which develop knowledge and skill in drafting. As technology expands and the things which men design and build take on excit- ing new dimensions, drafting must keep pace. The need for competent draftsmen is growing and will continue to grow in years to come. With this in view, these boys tak- ing drafting want to make use of the oppor- tunity to learn and to advance in a field that is both exciting and rewarding. While Gary Vojtasak and Joseph hanical drawing for accuracy, Larry Pierce inspect John Mercurio ' s mec- Zimmer looks on interestedly. 27

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SPEEDING ALLOWED - Sister Evangelista instructs Frank stenographers type from their shorthand notes. L. to r.: Connie Switlicki on the use of the transcription machine, while the future Cooper, Lois Gratton, and Mary Ignash. In order to have an under- standing of business as it functions in our economic system, a general business course is offered. Besides a knowledge of the nature and function of business, some other prin- cipal values are the con- tractual responsibilities and the importance of business activities in personal, social, civic, and national welfare. An appreciation of how to use intelligently the ser- vices of a bank, efficiency in planning purchases and use of goods, the knowledge of credit in business and how to use credit wisely are taught. FILLING OUT CHECKS - has its difficult points. David Halifax asks Robert Allen for some assistance in his general business assignment. 29