Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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Westbrook High School 29 QDon't Quy in Circles---Take a Straight fine to WATSON ,S NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE Fancy Groceries and Meats THE STORE ON THE HILL George Zaharis Fancy Fruit, Groceries, Ice Cream, Cigars and Cigarettes, Confectionery Green Truck in their seasons S. M. WATSON 6 Pine Street, Cumberland Mills 193 West Valentine Street Telephone 66o Tel9Ph0n9 505'M SMOKE SI-IGP Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Confectionery WILLIAM HEBERT, Proprietor 881 Main Street, Westbrwk A Low Overhead Expense Is important in corporate management and always pleases the stockholders. The North- western has no stockholders, but during the past 64 years it has paid dividends to its owners fthe policy holdersj amounting to 5275,ooo,ooo. 315 low Hoverbeadv 'will gifve you low cost protection. C. W. FRANK, 33 Seavey St. MARION A. KELLY Teacher of Piano 57 Morton Street Telephone 385-W Compliments of STAR THEATRE Paramount Pictures M. C. MOOERS DRY AND FANCY GOODS Millinery GENTS' FURNISHINGS Warren Eiooio Cumberland Mills Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings Hosiery Underwear Handkerchiefs Buttericlc Patterns Austin St. Clair Co. 533 Main Street

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28 The Blue ff white we practice them for accuracy. The second part is devoted to phrasing and the omission of letters and words for the sake of speed. In typewriting we first master the keyboard and then practice to acquire speed. Most of the commercial arithmetic course is devoted to short methods and time-sav- ing principles. It is the same in ofhce practice, where all kinds of time-saving devices and ma- chines are being introduced. None of the above mentioned qualities can be actually acquired unless we concentrate. The high school teachers are rapidly curing mind wandering by calling upon the pupil quickly to recite, and the pupil who is aroused upon hearing his name spoken becomes suddenly aware that he knows nothing about what is going on. Lack of concentration on our work causes many mistakes, sometimes very serious ones, which deduct from rather than add to neatness, speed and accuracy. Self-reliance and initiative should go together, for anyone who has initiative is usually self- reliant. The teachers are evidently very anxious that we attain these two qualities for problems which demand initiative, and the power to think things out are continually confronting us. In an office we must be self-reliant, for .,we may often be left to ourselves with no one to give directions, and we should make it one of our chief aims to bother those with whom we may be working as little as possible for they may have their own work to do. Dependability and loyalty should also go together, for how can we depend on anyone who isn't loyal? Both of these qualities can be easily practiced in our everyday life. We should make it a habit to go to school every day and not to stay at home because of a slight pain or a mild storm. We should also go with our lessons prepared so that the teachers can depend upon us to recite. If, after we have secured a position in an office, we fail to appear two or three days of the week, how can anyone depend on us? In an office just as at school we shall have a certain amount of work to do each day and if we fail to do it one day, we must do it the next, so, why not be loyal to our school' or office and do each day's work faithfully as it comes? Perhaps this is enough to show the value of a commercial course, as a preparation for post- school' life. The business world is advancing and with progress comes the great need for increasing knowledge preparation commensurate with this progress. The future demands an intelligent force of professional and business people of education, culture and experience. EDITH M. ELWELL, '2'7. DALTON ADDING MACHINE A Dalton Diploma of proficiency is awarded to each student who succeeds in adding a test column, which the Dalton Adding Machine Com- pany provides, by touch, in less than eighty seconds. If the time recorded is one minute or less, the student becomes eligible for membership in the Delta Alpha Mu Society, and the insignia, a gold pin, is presented with the Diploma. The following students succeeded in either the certificate, or both certificate winning and pin last year: Seniors Pupils Anderson, Louise, certificate Chick, Louise, certificate Crawford, Laura, certificate Jordan, Grace, certificate and pin Larravee, Cora, cetrificate and pin Mushreau, Helen, certificate and pin Phaneuf, Josephine, certificate and pin Reece, Harry, certificate Roberts, Emma, certificate Robichaud, Louise, certificate and pin Rocheleau, Jeannette, certificate and pin Turner, Elsie, certificate and pin fuiiiors A Elwell, Edith, certificate and pin Last year Mr. Wigon, Sales Manager of the Dalton Adding Machine Company in this district, offered two prizes of 356.00 and 54.00, respec- tively, to the students who succeeded in running a test list, furnished by him, in the shortest period of time. Louise Robichaud won the first prize and Josephine Phaneuf won the second.

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30 p The Blue fr white TYPEWRITING The two chief aims of the typewriting classes are accuracy and speed. To emphasize and attain these aims the typewriter companies send tests to the school each month. Each student is allowed to try the four tests once every month on each of the four machines used in the department. If the requirements are met, the awards, which are also named below, are received. Ten strokes are deducted from the total number of strokes for each error made in the test. It can readily be seen, that in order to win the awards, accuracy is more important than speed. The following is a list of the Seniors last year who won awards in typewriting: tury. Business subjects were taught in few universities prior to 1900, and in the public high schools commercial subjects first appeared about 1895. At that time some of the larger high schools of the Atlantic seaboard introduced book- keeping into the curriculum. The men who first undertook to give formal instruction in business subjects confined their work almost exclusively to bookkeeping with some attention to arithmetic and penmanship. From the beginning the growth in ntunbers of pupils taking commercial subjects has been rapidg by 1910-1911 the work had spread throughout the United States, and the Commissioner of Educa- tion reported that 11.3 percent of all pupils L. C. Smith Remington Underwood Royal Pupil Award Award Award Award Anderson, Louise Certificate and pin Certificate Certificate Certificate and pin Chick, Fleta Certificate and 2 pins Certificate and pin Certificate and pin Certificate Dolley, Dorothy Certificate Certificate Certificate and pin Certificate Hawkes, Emily Certificate Certificate and pin Certificate and 2 pins Certificate and pin Horr, Ethel Certificate and pin Certificate Certificate Certificate and pin Jordan. Grave Certificate and pin Certificate Certificate Certificate Lafifin, Bertha Certificate and 2 pins Certificate Certificate Certihcate Larravee, Cora Certificate Certificate and pin Certificate and 3 pins Certificate and pin Leighton, Barbara Certificate and 2 pins Certificate and 2 pins Certificate and 2 pins Certificate Lowell, Edythe Certificate and pin Certificate Certificate and pin Certificate Miller, Helen Certificate Certificate and pin Certificate and pin Certificate Mushreau, Helen Certificate Certificate Certificate and pin Gold Pin Phaneuf, Josephine Certificate Certificate Certificate Plummer, Winifred Certificate and pin Certificate Certificate Roberts, Elsie Bronze Pin Certificate Certificate Snow, Alice Silver Pin Certificate Timberlake, Mabel Certificate and pin Titcomb, Margaret Turner, Elsie Whalen, Thelma Bronze and Silver pins Last year Cora Larravee was on the honor roll the entire year as she held the highest record in speed and accuracy. Her highest rate of speed was sixty-four words per net minute. Thus far this year, Leola Miller holds the high- est record and her highest rate of speed is fifty- nine. HISTORY OF COMMERCIAL EDUCATION Business, in its various stages of development, has existed for many centuriesg education in busi- ness has had its growth within the last half cen- enrolled in the public high schools that year were in the commercial courses. For the year 1922 the number had grown to over 50 percent. It is apparent that any history of the origin and development of the science of commercial accounts must necessarily be a part of the history of the commercial nations of the world. Among the empires of the ancient world, Babylon was long the greatest commercial nation. The accounts of the merchants of ancient Babylon were kept on baked clay tablets. Many of these tablets have been brought to light by recent excavations and a large number of them translated, and in some