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

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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

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Af.I11CUltLllC, the baelc 111dust1y of human l1fe, to be useful must be taught xocahonalls BY thu we mean that the box must lea1 Il bv actu allx domg and muet do thoxe thmgs 111 Qchool XXh1Ch he xx 1ll late1 hdxe to do at home Tldlll the hand along mth the Tllllld O1 lef11 ll bs CIOIIIAQ' Such D1 oblems as test1ng seed llltliflllg' and gladlllg 51141111 m1x1ng 13018011 OdlS and g1asshoppe1 POISON, testmg fflllk nmlung buttel and cheexe and llllll d1eds of othe1 thmqs C110 exfmmles ol leal 111 .ut1cal 111st1uct1on FX 61 V OthC1 xca1 .1 COLUSG IN offel ed 111 anlmal llldllSt1Y xxlth a couwe Ill dQ'l0llOlTlV 111 the lIltClXCll1IlQ' xeals Iwum Nhon work 01 nmnual tldlll Xanced Falm shop XXO1k mms to tldlll the box Ill dolng those tlnnsre x1h1cl1 w1ll heln ll1IT1 on the hum u1th the tools he would hdxe HX3.1ldlJl SDQLIAI emphasls 18 lfud on the cfue of tools Ex eu boy 18 1equ11ed to do such th1l'1g1'S .mx shfn pen .1 plane and dfllllSl It lfllllt eel and flle fx saw and Otlltl exeluxes HCLQNSAIX to keen the 0lflllld1X tools Ill fnst class Ullldl t1Oll I11 automotne tldllllllgf thGOlV IS sunnlemented bx actual ox erhdul 11101 of can It 15 the hope that 1n the nea1 futule thls w1ll be made fl Ulllt COUISG but at D16N8Ilt both It and manual tlallllllg due 11111101 s 11' 1'f21 l' H XX -W H NX' ing is offered the first year with automotive tl'2llIllIlQ' for those more ad- ' D - QL I 'S V ' 4 Q - 'S ' I 1