Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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Commercial Department rplIF. subjects offered in the Commercial department this year were: shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping, commercial law and commercial arithmetic. The Typewriting department is equipped with nine Remington machines and six Woodstocks. The Woodstocks were added to the equipment this year and all the Typewriting students were given a chance to learn the keyboard of the new machine. A class was offered in Typing only and this was composed mainly of boys. A new feature introduced into the typing class by Miss Knoblock was the Rational Rythm Records. The Bookkeeping class was not a very popular class, being made up of a small number of students. The Twentieth Century System of Bookkeeping was taught. This class was also conducted by Miss Knoblock. The class in Commercial law, under the supervision of Mr. Guin, was made very interesting. This class was composed of Seniors and some real lawyers were turned out. Commercial Law was followed the second semester by Commercial Arithmetic. Miss Coe, the new mid-year teacher, had charge of this class and made it very progressive as well as interesting. The main principles of business arithmetic were taught and speed and accuracy drilled upon by the students.

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The Music Class THE Music Class this year is taking a course in Music Appreciation. This covers the study of National Music, Music History, the instruments in the Orchestra, the opera and oratorio, record analysis, and current events. The first semester the class consisted of about nine students. During the second semester, however, the class was enlarged to fifteen. This, no doubt, was due to the attractive reports of the former members of the class. The Music memory contest also stimulated interest in music work among the students. It seems that the new Musical Bulletin Board in the music room keeps the students interested the way they crowd around it. But then, they are compelled to know the contents so perhaps it is self defense that they study it so diligently. To be able to appreciate and enjoy good music, one must know something of the present day composers and artists. So to familiarize the students with good music played by excellent musicians, records of the composers of today are played as well as analyzed in class. Current events which are given every Monday, tend toward the same end and also add to class interest.

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 IN recent years the world has come to the realization that preparation for home making should be a part of every girl’s education. In order to give this much needed training we offer a full year’s work in sewing. The aims of this year’s work in sewing is to teach the student how to select clothing, how to make garments, how to make over materials into something useful and howr to select and buy attractive clothes for different types of people at a reasonable cost. The class, consisting of thirteen girls, is kept quite busy making ten or more useful and attractive garments a piece. They also mend socks, patch clothes and do the various other little jobs of mending that every housewife must know how to do. The various garments made this year consists of teddies, bloomers, night gowns, pajamas, cotton dresses, wool dresses, silk dresses, children’s dresses, and numerous articles for Christmas gifts. After completing the sewing course each girl is better fitted to face the work that she may be called upon to do in later life. She w’ill be of some service to the world, for the world loves to see a busy little housewife who knows how to sew, to mend, and to patch. —Frances M. Yasaitis, ’26. Page Eighteen