Strafford High School - Torch Yearbook (Strafford, MO)

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The field of business may interest many of our students either in college or as a typist, secretary, or bookkeeper. It is the job of the commerce department to prepare students for the highest pos- sible employment opportunity. Two beginning typewriting courses, shorthand, secretarial prac- tice, and bookkeeping are offered. Shorthand and typewriting are necessities for a future secretary and also are valuable aids to a col- lege student. Bookkeeping today is valuable not only in the business world, but in learning to keep personal records in an orderly manner to facilitate income tax filing. The secretarial practice class is known as the busy class. Students do quite advanced work in type- writing, do much duplicating, and publish the annual and the month- l ly newspaper. Charlotte Duncan practices writing shorthand while Joyce Rogers tran I d k R ' Commerce department oys groun wor The 1958-59 Broadcast staff had a goal set for them last fall, For the first time the 1957- 59 Broadcast received a one rating from the -git 4 Missouri lnterscholastic Press Association, and four individual articles rated ones, The pre- sent staff has worked long hours hoping to re- ceive the same high rating, z'!,.ei Feature Editor Joyce Rogers is writ- ing a feature article: Society Editor Charlotte Duncan is getting ideas for Student of the Month interviews. In the back, Patsy Bumgarner helps Rex Potter write his sports Dage. Mrs. Stombaugh explains how to fill out the work sheet to bookkeeping students--Madelyn Schnick, Goldie Dean, Danny Murphy, and Earl Hammond, -'l4-

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'Nl' 3 JQ ' W 51 if 'it iffy 2-i Ts. L 1 reading A A BeveYW Wm - conlest' Sxoty for dell Praciices the fmenslc The five students entered in the forensic contest at Ash Grove were: Edith Belknap, Beverl f Wardell P t 'B gil Doty, and Jerry Bishop. y , a sy umgarner, Vir- sfressed in English courses Jerry Bishop is demonstrating the scientific procedure used in making lye at the forensic meet at Ash Grove. Five Strafford students were entered in the sub- district forensic meet at Ash Grove on March 13. The ratings were as follows: I, Beverly Wardell, story tellingp I-, Edith Belknap, prose reading: Pat- sy Bumgarner, poetry readingg II, Virgil Doty, news broadcastg III, Jerry Bishop, demonstration speech. March 20, the three students who received I ratings at Ash Grove went to Southwest Missouri State College for the district meet. All three en- tries earned a II rating.

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For the second successive year the TORCH earned a Rank l--Excellent rating, The in- dustrious TORCH staff had many duties--drawing layouts, working on write-ups, headlines, cap- tions, typing, checking names, and taking pic- tures. More pages were devoted to departments this year, and more action shots were taken, While Miss Nannie Ross edited all write-ups, Mrs. Stombaugh, advisor, worked closely with the staff, giving them suggestions, as well as making the final check on each page submitted to the publisher, for business world ,gig 't ' xr Q' 1 f I NCMNMWI Patsy Bumgarner, TORCH Editor, is now ready to make assignments for each page Meeting that deadline means many late hours and much cooperation from all the staff, Editors Shirley Chalupnik, Joyce Rogers, Charlotte Duncan, and Orville Lile check their pages while Assistant Ed- itor Carol Davolt fstanding, centerj ex- plains some of the details. HELEN STOMBAUGH, Commerce instructor, attained her B, Ed. at Illinois State Normal University. She is a Junior class sponsor and the willing advisor of the school paper and annual staffs, This completes Mrs. Stom- baugh's second year at Strafford, 'ist Broadcast Editor Shirley Chalupnik spends many periods preparing the paper layout before each issue,