Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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as well as traditional necessities - sandpaper, glue, etc. Balancing, both budgets and books, keeps the students of Consumer Education and Book- keeping busy. In Consumer Education, little businessmen buy insurance, rent and buy houses, and discover the whyis of prices in general. The students of Bookkeeping frantically struggle with record-keeping, interest and depreciation, trying to keep their records out of the red and figure out why they should be. Practicelmakes perfect is the basis of the Office and Secretarial Practice courses, as future clerks and secretaries drill with calculators, duplicators and adding machines. JUST PUNCH THE KEY . . . Miss Walingavich shows senior E. Limpach how it's done. BUSINESS EDUCATION Our Future Organization Men FOR STENOGRAPHERS ONLY Discussing advanced stenographic proficiency drills with senior Marcia Wertz is helpful instructor, Mr. Hobart DEGREES' PATRICK A. PLANTE B.S., Northeastern University PATRICIA A. SCOTT B.S., Miami C0hioJ University G. KENDALL NYLIN A.E., Wentworth Institute . B.S. Northeastern tram-siw EDWIN C. ROBART B.S. M.C.S. New York University 'IULIET BECHAK B.S., Paterson I. RECKLING B.S., Illinois State University BERNICE K. WALINGAVICI-I B.S., College Misericordia 'ROUND AND 'ROUND THE PAPER GOES BUYER'S GUIDE Mrs. Reckling gives a high level paper demonstration. Consumers ought to know topography, declares Miss Bechak

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS Nothing Like a Little Grease EXPERT AT PRECISION Mr. Plante checks a minutely detailed blueprint made by his outstanding Mechanical Drawing Studentf' Ken Meyer. STRIVING FOR ADEPTNESS Students practice typing from a dictation by Mrs. Scott. Pursued by non-college bound THS,ers and any college prep students who have enough time to be well-rounded, the commercial course at Tenafly provides invaluable training in auto- mobile fixing, wood-working, blueprint drawing, typewriter manipulating, shorthand taking, and office functioning. The language of industryf, mechanical draw- ing, stressing the graphic representation of form and proportion, enables students to visualize clearly in space and develops accuracy and man- ual dexterity, using such fascinating pieces of equipment as the T-square, French curve and drawing board. Typing and shorthand, while basic skills in themselves, also train the fingers and the brain, developing close co-ordination between the two. Well versed students having mastered typing and shorthand are able to take at least 60 words per minute for five minutes in shorthand and type over 25 w.p.m. for five minutes on unfamiliar material. Auto Mechanics and Electricity offers boys who are so inclined an excellent chance to get their bombs, in top-notch running condition, as they can drive them right into the school and go to work with grease guns, hydrometers, valve compressors, electric drills, and all the other vital equipment. Similarly, in General Shop, any project, approved by the instructor, may be carried out, including the construction of boats, bookracks, tables, lamps and other projects' requiring adeptness with high powered tools MOTOR MAESTRO It is a challenge to master the intricacies of an automobile engine, says Mr. G. Nylin, instructing Anthony Andujar.

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SPEECH AND DRAMATICS Explode Those Final Plosives THE MOON SHONE ON THE OPEN BOOK . . .H Douglas McKay presents an oration in Speech class. THIS WAY, MRS. TP Dramatic Mrs. Tukesbury, B. Macfarland, and I. Garner plan. Aided by the new sound-proof recording booth and elevated stage are students of Public Speaking and Speech Laboratory. With meticulously detailed out- lines in hand, they strive to perfect their rhetoric by delivering orations which copy the ancients' in support of tone and exploded plosives. Dramatic students also deliver orations as they el- oquently bemoan written reports on period plays from Aeschylus to Tennessee VVilliams. Later, after having studied play production as BOTH HANDS FULL Matt Cechele, stage crew chairman, instructs unseen co-worker to clear the stage for the next performer. DEGREE BEATRICE L. TUKES BURY A.B., Barnard M.A., Columbia well as history, the students see their importance in the making of an informed and fascinated first-nighter. LIVING COLLEGE BOARD An animated panel of Tenafly graduates discusses college entrance and campus life at annual conference for the seniors.