Teton County High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Choteau, MT)

Page 64 text:

l' H XX' VN' H W COMMERCTAL DEPARTMENT The commercial department of Teton County High School was es tabllshed IH 1920 with an enrollment of six students In the fall of 1924 the number of students electing the commeiclal coui se had 1nc1 eased to a total of th11ty membels It is a two 5ear course intended pumarily for those students who do not expect to attend a higher 1I'l9lIltLlt101'l of learn mg and who need to go to vsork as soon as then high school education s completed For that reason such students should plan the11 work oi entering high school so that they may take up all the commercial sub1ects offered in the Junior and sen1o1 years Seniors are dlscouraged from en rolllng in this course The subiects taught are shorthand typevsiitlng peiiods of eighty mmutes daily Secretaiial tiainmg or office piactlce lS corielated with the teaching of both shoithand and typewuting The time has long since passed when a commeicial education was considered purely vocational It partakes of the cultuial natuie as tiulv as does the study of English oi a foreign language In addition to this it combmes an element lacking 111 the study of a language 16 that of the quick automatic iesponse to the stimulus of spoken words which comes in the piocess of taking dictation We may confidently look foiwaid to the time when educational authoiitie in 1ll iecognize shorthand as a lan guage study w1th a xalue quite apart hom its xocational nature a specltlc coiielated xalue in helping to establish bcttei usage of lun fllsh . K i ll V I Commercial Department Class I ' L A' .4 .K h Y C , . 1. . I i . s . ' ' 1 ' . ' ' ! 7 and bookkeeping, each of these subjects except shorthand requiring double 1 .... , I . . . 1 . A 1 . . . . .3 , ' L L A' L Y, ' 1. ' , '. ' L v ' 1 , K1 , 1 - 1 ' ' ,- kv 'nw 1 1 S ,- ' 1 in 'Lv . 60 p 1 4, -J 3 A g K sf

Page 63 text:

I H W - W H XX ys' Glee C l 9 2 5

Page 65 text:

T, .W ,Y,,, ::1,::.mH,I ,,,,,,i .A.W,,, 1 U VV - XV U W ,, ,.T,,4,,, Tl- ,::11:,:,,i m,,,,::::7z M, of ll I 0 , , a nW The same thlng IS true Wlth regard to tvpewrltmg A stenographer IS not merely a mechanlcal typlst Fach letter to be transcrlbed becomes a d1st1nct problem 1n arrangement spaclng paragranhmg and posltlon on the sheet To the stenographer typewutlng IS an art unon whlch he mav QXGTCISC the best of hls artlstlc talents In recent years standards malntalned 1n the commerclal department of the best schools have become verv hlgh and requlrements for gradua tlon correspondmgly dlfflcult Therefore only students who are Wllllng' to work hard and who asplre to become efflclent stenographers after leavlng school should elect the commerclal course APlPlLllElD AGRICULTURE Agrlculture was mtroduced 1nto the currlculum of Teton County Hlgl School ln the fall of 1920 Thls came about as a result of the growlng de mand for agr1cultural 1nstruct1on IH the hlgh schools all over the country Our student body IS composed of a large percentage from the rural com mun1t1es and It IS for them that 1nstruct1on 1n the sclence of agnculture IS g1ven Our alm IS to serve the communlty and by agrlculture we alm not only to lnterest the boy from the country by a closer contact to h1S daxly llfe but also alm to g1V8 h1m somethmg of a practlcal and useful nature 1971 3 15 fl r A 1 ill' fit , , xl' lg! tj: 'E :E li, . :T Cl ss i orkroom H' . . . . . 'al , . Fw . . . ' . 112 . A V Vi r x , a - . , ' - ' L a u .L n ' , K . f . . . S . . lf 1 - :ill . . . . . , V J I . . 1 li! ' . EAT lg ii it ul at ' sl Q 4 . 1 - . - . . it w Ei ! . . E' 61 . , ,.. . .. ....,,. . ,,.v... ,.. ,' 'JIU Q .-1 , 1 I 1, .ffl . .. Y ... , ,JIM .1 1512?