Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Right: By working on the Wang Pro- cessor in business machines, Laura Gyllstrom types up a program, Below: Britonya Perkins and Reginald Howard, marketing class members, study local businesses during a field trip to Almar Plaza. I . , Wat! '1 ...J f Zi Above: Combining typing and short- hand skills is required in transcriptive typing as Luanne Lotz translates her shorthand into typing, Right: Typing not only requires speed but also accuracy as Kenneth Seals checks for errors. 44 Business Department w 1 L. 5 l 6 A is lim nil i 2 i 3 5 t bn H., . . , 2 M, 2 4 ' 'Q -:if 5 H .tj .rr it sine. : L' . 1 :iff g vjlw WN f M Q., . My-

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X09 N' ', 5-ww ,W ' 7' KW E. f, an-.. W, 14,-.....,. J 'lb 317, Above: In Chemistry I Julie O'NeiIi and Karen Schwartz get hands on ex- perience with copper sulfate solution, Left: Typing is a popular class that teaches a necessary skill. Academics 43

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i 'ar l ' ., ,uf W .V ,wwf t ff-'W f is-ff . V A ,L.V I I TOP! Adding VTWHCNWIGS give students senior Penelope Goldman work on a taking business machines practical bookkeeping problem, an important GXDGHGUCG- part of daily work. Above: Mrs. Christine Zacny helps ,W-fdyihg tk Practical training aids rlndihg future jobs aking up at six, downtown by nine and back home by five. More than 7600 students enrolled in business courses prepared themselves for life in the business world after graduation. The various classes pro- vided by the business depart- ment Iaid a good foundation for attractive careers and de- veloped skills for part-time jobs or personal use. The department had three labs responsible for some of the training that students re- ceived. We're proud of our labs. Not many schools pro- vide their students with a shorthand, business machine and data processing lab, stated Mr. Stanley Clauson, department chairman. The shorthand lab consisted of thirty work stations equipped with IBM Selectrlcs and electronics, and a wired scribe cassette dictation unit. The business machine lab housed electronic self-correct- ing typewriters, IBM Selectric II, magnetic card typing sys- tem, Wang Processors, dicta- tionftranscrlbers and IBM electronic multi-function cal- culators. l really enjoyed business machines. The differ- ent jobs the machines perform just amazed me and I was al- ways learning, stated senior Gia Mack. As many as 2000 different student programs were run ev- ery week in the data process- ing lab. Instructions were giv- en in Basic RPG, FORTRAN, and COBAL computer Ian- guages. Eleven classes of Business Data Processing I 81 ll used in the instruction facili- ty. Skills learned in the busi- ness department gave stu- dents the knowledge and ex- perience to qualify them for jobs immediately after gradu- ation. Business Department 45