Washington High School - Scroll Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Julia Hammel Guy Bannister 1 Commercial Department Because more room was necessary, the office practice room was shifted from 412 to 309. The furniture from 309 was moved to 317, from 317 to 310, and from 310 to 414. At present there are approximately 2380 students taking commercial subjects in the 85 classes, and 1400 taking one or more subjects, quite an increase over last year's enrollment. W Clara Nappe Margaret Flegal Carrie Brown Marguerite Michi Page Twenty-One

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LUCY SCHOENIG Commercial Department The aim of the commercial department is to prepare more boys and more girls not only to take their place in the business world, but also to enable them to keep their personal business accounts straight, thereby making them better members of the corn- munity, and we are successfully carrying out our aim , stated Mr. Blair. Most of the students we graduate from here have very little difficulty in obtaining positions. Even a large number of our undergraduates, boys and girls both, have positions for summer work. Marguerite Bleyer A. Eugene Miller William Woods Orville Stiffney Page Twenty

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ROBERT EWERS History Department QA NLY ONCE in the course of a high-school student's career does a presidential V election bloom forthg so this year, in the History Department, the classes have placed the candidates and their platforms under a rigid analytic scrutiny. In , ' this way the monotony of the classes was reduced. 55 ? Hb ad , A . l4, ,,I No radical changes, in fact, no alterations at all have occurred in the history classes this year. The text book of Muzzey is supplemented by map work. To fit the pupil to take his place in this country's social and political life is the main purpose of history. It also aids in'the making of good citizenship and in the understanding of topics of the day. Charles White Lillie Spiering Otto Birr Page Twenty-Two