Waukegan High School - Annual W Yearbook (Waukegan, IL)

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Secretaries, Clerks, RCTC Staff o the ollice stuff is delegated the responsibility of ingiintaiining the volumif nous records :ind liles that are necessary in the operation of at large school. They relieve the administrative personnel of much routine work that must clear through their offices. AT RIGHT: left to right, ROIV 1: Marie Beatty. Secretary to the Superin- tendentg Carrie Schneider. Secretary to the Principal: llarie Sauter. Attendance clerk. ROW 21 Dorothie YV. Freund. Receptionist: Lois Trunx. Industrial of- tice clerk. AT RIGHT: IJ 0 r 0 t h i e Freund :ind Bernice Pal- aske in school office. LEFT YIICW: Anna Han- na, Secretary to the Pur- chasing Agent. and Joyce Ellington. Clerk. at work in the school board onice. Lezuling Waukegzunk R.O.T.C. unit are, left to right above: Major Verde W Bennett. P.M.S.KT.. Heard of the RO T.C. Unit: Sgt. Paul Lietzke. lA. 1B Military, Ordinance: Set, Claude Shel ton, ZIS, ZA. Ritle Mzirksmanship . 29 ,

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Train Students REYNO BIXLER Head of Department, Clerical Typing, Selling E. H. COLE Business English, Business illath VERA IERG Bookkeeping, Attendance MARGARET PERUCCA Clerical Typing, Shorthand RUTH PATTERSON WALDECK Shorthand, Stenographic Typing, Clerical Typing CHARLES REID Hall Monitors, Orientation Business, Sophomore Basketball and Football IRENE SEXTON Clerical Typing, Bookkeeping MRS. EVELYN TAYLOR Clerical Typing, Shorthand MABEL THOMPSON Office Machines, Clerical Typing, Secretarial Preparation. The Commercial progrzxm provides students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the business iield, to learn qualities, abilities, and skills needed to qualify for selling and ofiice work. Students who have the interest, appti- turle, and ability to succeed in business may select courses which are designed to help them iind themselves. In the twelfth grade, further training and specialization in bookkeeping, clerical, distributive, and stenogiruphic work pre- pzires students for positions available in the community. For New Tasks 28

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Offer University Extension Courses To accommodate the registration overdow of veterans and other high school graduates at the State University, a University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Center was set up at Waukegan Township high school last September. C. E. Prichard, high school principal, has served in the capacity of Dean for the new service, with D. W. Fields as assistant. At present the freshman university course is the only one offered. Completion of the work offered here makes it possible for a student to earn credits qualifying him for sophomore standing, which cred- its may be transferred to most colleges and universities. A total of 214 students completed the course this spring. About three-fourths of those enrolled were men and a majority of these were veterans of World War II. There were twenty-four teachers on the stafg nineteen of them were members of the W.T.H.S. faculty. Plans have already been completed for continuing the university extension classes here beginning next September. dult Evening Courses Expanding With a total enrollment of more than 600 for the second semester of the past year, the adult eve- ning school conducted at Waukegan High is gaining in popularity each year. Under the direction of George W. Osbun, there were twenty-seven separate courses in progress the past semester. With no entrance requirements set up, men and women of all ages have been finding new and in- teresting experiences in attending evening school. Adults with varied degrees of past educational attain- ments are eligible for any courses offered except credit courses which specify that certain pre-requisites must be met. Students desiring high school credits may earn them at evening school. Other offerings include refresher courses and work in vocational education which will help the student secure job ad- vancement. Recreational courses in swimming and gymnasium work for both men and women have proved to be popular. Almost any type of class will be taught in theievening school provided that there is a minimum of fifteen interested persons enrolled. Summer Classes Begin Third Year The Hrst summer school session at Waukegan Township high school was held in 1945, with 220 students enrolled. In 1946 the enrollment was almost double that of the year before. The 1947 session will begin June 9 and continue for eight weeks, ending August 1. Courses will be offered in all subjects including Physical Education and R.O.T.C. The 1946 enrollment included a group of students from the seventh and eighth grades who were interested in typing and physical education. The summer school offers an opportunity for students to secure extra credits, or to make up work in which they have failed, as Well as providing a way to spend part of the long summer vacation in recreational activities at home and at nominal cost. The program is so arranged that a student may take one, two or three courses according to his needs or preference. This program is especially attrac- tive to those who wish to attend school in the morning and work in the afternoon. In the past two summers courses in English and the Social Studies have had the largest enroll- ments, with commercial and mathematics classes next in size. Physical education and military, offered for the first time in 1946, proved popular and an increased interest in this area is expected this summer. The Summer School is conducted by a staff of ten teachers, and is under the immediate direction of Charles E. Melton. 30