Washington Lee High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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Business Classes ssume Modern Look Round and round the little ball goes, where it stops, nobody knows! This remark did not come from a gambling casino, but from a typing class. The business department this year purchased fifteen IBM electric typewriters with ball selectors and acquired two modern adding machines. To lessen the problems of overcrowded class' rooms, the business department increased the num' f, ei .X Now take 2270 of your total income, explains Mrs. Joann Levine as she instructs Roger Riddle on income tax. Wie 1 Q f' fx . I 4 9, ,-v. n L s re' Ji ber of teachers. The department also procured an additional set of typing textbooks. Open for the fourth year in a row, the Student Savings Bank, offered students an opportunity to draw interest on their savings. Business students gained valuable experience, serving as tellers and School Store cashiers. N X' i ' l l if Getting the practice necessary for a summer job, Diane Balough transcribes an exercise from the textbook, Striving to increase their speed, juniors Denise Gissel and Linda Wise use two of the IBM electric typewritcrs. Academics 13 ao fuf Ss. ,435-

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X --1 ict, French Classes Sponsor f Feature Length Movies Maj, X Xu Rome ruled that much of Europe! exclaims Felicia XX' l l 1 M K rl mit N x r dis uss 1 it Converting the school auditorium into a movie theater, the third, fourth and fifth year French classes sponsored the showing of several feature length motion pictures. Open to all students of the foreign language program, the movies offered an opportunity to improve comprehension ability. Teachers chose a variety of films for the program, including such selections as Lettres de Mon Moulin. To further aid the progress in pronunciation of wouldfbe linguists, the first and second year courses used textbooks accompanied by tapes. With the increase in oral work required by these texts, WfLites found numerous occasions to use the modern ear' phones and master tape recording system installed in the laboratory this year. f.-si .s rs .. 1. 1' vvtoi c 10s . m. X x 'X liisu-ning to .1 native accent, students Linda NVlutney .SX .mil lun Vu'-Is take .- French dictation in the lab ' 14 Academics I