Warwick High School - Warwick Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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I ' ll let you have this Beatle book if you give me back my Goldwater button.” D.E. Students Train the Brain, A job selling bathroom accessories! Who wants a discount on shower curtains?” A logical question for a student of Distributive Education, a course which enabled many students to secure jobs that will benefit them during and after high school. The variety of work anticipated in was great with such businesses as automotive dealers, apparel outlets, department, drug, food, and furniture stores, and personal services. When the students were not out making money hand over fist, they spent their time studying the qualities necessary in an expanding business world. Good grooming, job interview techniques, salesman- ship, advertising, income tax preparation, and human relations couldn’t help but form a well-rounded and pleasing personality. This year Warwick was one of the few schools in the state to offer Preparatory Distributive Education, which was a course for tenth graders in which they worked on various projects but did not obtain the actual on-the-job training. As an example of the money earned during the month of Septem- ber, these fortunate students, working through D.E., took in a total of $2,225.00. This was an average hourly wage of $1.15. Because a job often caused a student to miss out on much of high school’s social life, the Distributive Education Club, a brance of the D.E. Department, tried to be a social as well as a functional organ- ization. The club participated in many contests and state and local conferences. It is easily seen that the D.E.’s primary purpose of creating and developing future leaders for the fields of marketing and distribution was more than fulfilled in 1964-65. and Earn as They Learn Now where is that pair of size llD, chartreuse, alligator heels?” ponders Ed McClosky.

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oreign Languages Prove Confusing, but Beneficial Whether it was the conjugation of irregular verbs, the seeming- ly ridiculous word order, or the confusing masculine and feminine gender of nouns, language students were continually remarking mais je ne comprend pas” or the Spanish, German, or Latin equivalent of ' I don ' t get it!” However, with the various techniques employed by the language teachers, Mrs. Curtis, Miss Hundley, Mrs. Deskin and Mrs. Walsh, some of the students were invariably tricked into giving the correct answer. The objective of the Language Department,” says Mrs. Curtis, was to train students to understand, speak, read, and write with special emphasis placed on lingual skills in the beginning classes and the study of literature in the more ad- vanced.” Most of us would have been happy if we could master completely just one phase of our elected language. Through the use of such equipment as the language laboratory, portable tape recorders, phonographs, and movie and slide pro- jectors, classes succeeded in improving their skills, such as how to say, Entschuldigen Sie, Mir bitte!” without giving away the fact that there was a large piece of chewing gum under their tongue. Another phase of language proficiency was that of studying the culture and civilization of the various foreign countries. If you happened to notice any of the paperback books, Les Miserables, Don Juan, or jithus Caesar floating around the school this year, it was because the outside reading in the language courses became a major part of the program. Oh yes, and by the way, please return them. Many of this year ' s students will be needing them next year! Calling all cars, calling all cars . . .” How do you speak French in Braille?” I came, I saw, I flunked. 26

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Business Classes Strive to Achieve Excellence in Technique Forty-five words on a minute timing — that’s great!’’ Yes, but I have fourteen mistakes and one strike-over!” Well, it’s been said that mistakes are the inspiration for ambitions, and this was certainly the case in the courses of Typ- ing, Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Record Keeping, General Business, and Vocational Office Training. The Business Department was well equipped with the latest machines for progressive work experience which, we hoped, en- abled graduates to gain full-time employment in the business world and possibly to marry the boss’ son. The Business Department was actually divided into two groups — those taking courses such as Typing for their own personal use, and those participating in Vocational Office Training, better known as V.O.T. This latter group began with General Business in the tenth grade and followed this course with two years of Typing, one of Shorthand, and two of Bookkeeping. In these more advanced classes, the students worked with adding machines, rotary cal- culators, posting machines, spirit duplicators, and transcription machines. All of the machines were typical of those found in the local businesses in which fourteen Warwick students work part time through V.O.T. Does it take a short hand to do shorthand ? Now is the time for all . . .”