Western Michigan Christian High School - Torch Yearbook (Muskegon, MI)

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Counting The Cost From dots and dashes to asdfplki - this is our course in how to win jobs and influence bosses. Mr. Lanning has been training young people for positions in the business world through typing, bookkeeping, and shorthand. To become proficient in business skills, we had to learn the value of accuracy. We were taught to think logically, act responsibly, and count the cost of inefficiency if we would become competent workers. We realize, as students at Christian High, that God wants secretaries and bookkeepers as well as workers in other fields. The Christian should try to absorb every sphere of life in order that all the world may hear and know of Him. MR. ARTHUR LANNING Ph.B. Bookkeeping, Secretarial Science

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REV. DICK J. OOSTENINK A.B., Th.B. Bible Faith of Our Fathers At Christian High the Bible courses are an integral part of our curriculum. A study of the Old and New Testaments gives a deeper understanding of God's Word and new applications for young lives. The founding and growth of the Christian faith studied in church history creates a greater appreciation of our heritage. As students gain a more complete knowledge of what they believe from the senior doctrine course, their faith gains new meaning. Thus, the faith of our fathers becomes our faith,

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MR. TED MC FALL Latin, Mathematics MISS MARGIE KALLEMEYN English, Latin O, For l,00O Tongues Hic, haec, hoc, huius, huius, huius . . . students frantically recite to one another outside the door of the Latin room on big test days. They long for fluency in one language, let alone nine hundred ninety-nine others! Learning the primary fundamentals of 'first year Latin provides the background for a detailed study of Caesar and his Gallic Wars lalthough adven- tures of the United States Marines often creep inl. Nevertheless, our foundation in Latin grammar and vocabulary helps us in our everyday use of the English language. l I2