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

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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 . . .”

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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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Industrial Courses Provide Training, Work Experience The Industrial Education Department, formerly the Industrial Arts Department, experienced many changes besides that of its name. Some of these changes concerned the department’s addition of a few new nuts” and bolts” in the way of teachers. Teach- ing metal work and woodwork were Mr. J. R. Gregg and Mr. G. R. Greer, respectively, while Mr. W. E. Jones finished another year as drafting instructor and department head. Continuing as electricity and electronic instructor was Mr. C. A. Brown, under whose guidance electricity was introduced for the first time into the General Shop program for 8th graders. The course was de- signed primarily for exploration of electricity and its relationship in everyday living with emphasis placed on safe working habits and procedures. Also under the operation of the Industrial Education Department was the I.C.T. (Industrial Co-operative Training) program which enabled students to combine education with actual work experience resulting in vocational training opportunities invaluable to success after high school. In the way of projects the architectual section of drafting tried a new innovation with Ken Cooke’s scaled model of an actual two-story house. The completed project was used as a visual aid for improving learning conditions in the classes. Besides bene- fiting the classes, the Industrial Education Department undertook projects which aided the individual classrooms and the school as a whole, proving that they were, indeed, an asset at Warwick even if none of the language classes upstairs could hear for the buzz saws ! A WHS student welds a brighter future.