Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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. . CORRELATING STUDENT AND COMMUNITY NEEDS Like a montage, with its total effect determined by the background, commercial courses at Valdosta High School are related to Valdosta, a South Georgia city with a population of 35,000. Industrial, commercial, and service organizations serving this community include a paper mill, a garment factory, a metal products plant, a large naval stores processing business, a United States Air Force Training Base, an area hospital, and numerous department stores, shops, and offices. To furnish a continuous supply of trained help for these firms, commercial classes at VHS offer courses in typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, business English, business math. Distributive Education, and Diversified Cooperative Training. Students who do not plan to attend college usually take most of these subjects. Others may elect to enter the DE program, which offers opportunities for working in trade or service type businesses, as a basis for future college study of specialized com- mercial or business administrative fields. But whatever the student’s primary goals may be, the commercial classes make it possible for him—or her—to fit into the throbbing business life of the town. Both DE and DCT give technical and on-the-job training. Students enrolled in these classes leave school at noon and fan out into the city to work as clerks, typists, stenographers, nurses aides, projec- tionists, and mechanics. They learn the needs of their community and at the same time earn money. Deborah Hall suggests to Mrs. Viola Shroyer, Perfumed soap is an excellent birthday gift.” Deborah, a senior DE student, works at C.C. Varnedoe and Company. 28

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MRS. CLYDE CONNELL MRS. A. C. WISENBAKER Yvonne Hall, junior, and Linda Gunter, sophomore, prac- tice French by taking the parts of puppeteers at the Theatre De Guignol. 27 MRS. DARRYL BLOODWORTH

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MRS. MADELEINE STEWART MR. W. E. GLENN Mrs. Martha Gay Young, who works as veterinarian assistant for Dr. Loyce Turner, accepts an award from Mr. J. P. Horn. Mrs. Young won first place at the state level for her DCT job manual.