Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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or A Commercial THE commercial course is designed to prepore students for various fields in the business world. As this department is divided into general business, stenography, salesmanship, and accounting, each student is given the opportunity to acquire general knowledge of business ad- ministration and to specialize in Dorothy Smyrl runs off the morning an- nouncement. Will these occounts never balance? Peggy Simboli gets o little practice in an- swering the phone in the Commercial office. .vvr-

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Practical Arts . . . THE Industrial Arts work of the General Course provides the practical-minded boy with a com- plete study of wood-working, metal-working, and drafting. The excellent facilities of the school allow manual technique in these subjects to be developed to the fullest extent. These facilities include completely equipped wood and metal shops, and a spacious droftmg room The Industrial Arts teochers are competent and well-informed, both as to the practical side and theoretical side of their respective subjects. Many students in other courses elect one or more of these subjects, for a knowledge of the industrial arts is essentiol, es- pecially to the prospective engineer. Normon Brinkman and Jock Rossiter do some planning in Mechanical Drawing. Polishing a table made in Shop. James Boys nicks off a few corner in Wood Shop. Metal Shop takes on a romantic ospcct in this scene.

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Course ... the field of his individuol choice. In addition to their classroom activities, commercial students act os the com- mercial office secretaries and are responsible for the morning an- nouncements. This not only enables them to serve the school but also affords an opportunity for practical application of their studies The nightmorc of typing students. The work is mode doubly difficult when the keys ore covered. A closs in machine practice.