Stamford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stamford, CT)

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ALBERT SCHER HARRIET M' BIGELOW N I EDITH L STITT MARION B MORSE 63 MARY P LITTLE 4. hi' JAMES KEANE JOHN L HUGHES Achng Head CHARLES C OLSON FREDERIC T. HAWES JOHN BAGGS EILEEN M KROPP ANGELA FIORE DORA M POCHNA V 4 yan my ,,. W A ffsv LJ RUTH F. HIGGINS ALFRED A SESSA 1- X.. ANGELA T ESPos1rO '

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Future salesmen and secretarues obtaun an excellent foundatuon un theur chosen careers by electung courses un the varued curruculum of the Stamford Hugh Commercual Department One bruef glance at the lust of courses offered un the varued curruculum of the Stamford Hugh School Commercual Department would convunce any on looker of the unsurpassed opportunutues avaulable to any S H S student Subuects luke bookkeepung busuness law and commercual geography not only gave students a short cut to future success un the busuness world but also furnushed them wuth basuc knowledge whuch wull prove unvaluable un whatever professuon they enter A knowledge of busuness law for example wull prove uts worth whenever a problem such as startung a new busuness aruses A course un book keepung too, wull and ummensely those faced wuth the ever present task of budget balancung Those who plan to attend college have duscovered that the knowledge of shorthand greatly faculutates the takung of notes whule typung accelerates the preparatuon of assugned papers However the pruncupal 'ob of the Commercual Department remauns that of preparung S H S graduates to fill responsuble posutuons un the busuness lufe of the communuty Many of the sales clerks receptuonusts office workers and typusts un Stamford receuved theur first unsught unto the world of busuness through some commercual subuect elected back un hugh school A vast proportuon of those gurls who studued typung and stenography wull be employed ummeduately after graduatuon The supply of typewruters and other office machunes was more than adequate lnstructuon un the use of these followed by constant practuce prepared students for the actual work of an office and acquaunted them wuth office routune The Commercual Department of Stamford Hugh School has competently fulfilled uts two fold purpose ut has met the needs of students aumung for busuness careers and has offered a curruculum varued enough for the needs of other unduvuduals as well Eyes off the keys Office efficuency experts I . . . . , , ' I I I . - 1 1 I 1 I 1 I . : I l u

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CARL NUTTER .g-N R...- MIRIAM W ANDERSEN 'N 'Q-1 JOHN J DUNN '53 BARBARA L BELANICH LOWELL I. GORDON Q11 On HARRIET M. BIGELOW wwf One world' In the mndst of our youthful merrument we awoke to the realnzatnon that there was more to thus world than the narrow confines of our town or our country Through the eftorts of the S H S History Department we were nntroduced to the customs and cultures of other peoples Under Mr Nutter and hrs co workers we absorbed the phnlosophles of American ancient modern and world hnstory as well as the three departmental alms burldung and transmuttmg culture ransmg and usmg standards and understandmg and usnng the physical world Asude from classroom work hnstory was gamed paunlessly through a dlverse program of extra curncular OCIIVIIIES Town meetmgs and dlscusslon groups attracted mterested history students the Polltvcal Sclence and Debatung clubs were meduums where the maternal gleaned from books and lectures could be duscussed and argued Traps to the U N were popular pastnmes whsle Board of Representatuves meetings often drew student spectators to observe the actual workangs of a legnslatlve body Wuth thus practlcal as well as theoretlcal background Orange and Black graduates are well prepared to assume theur responsnbulmes as future cutnzens In the communnty Q I 3 2,17 LOUISE M MOSER MARGARET K. ST. JOHN ESTHER E. WHEELER RITA M. CATHRYN H. RYAN LEARY ROBERT P. ABRAHAM SERAFINO HECHT LOUISA H. NICHOLAS . BOHN DeVlTA