Whetstone High School - Legend Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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This is the age of automation. Machines play dominant roles in our There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell homes, businesses and industries. The business education curriculum acquaints the business-bound student with machines he will Work with in this, until now, foreign world. Comptometer, rotary calculator, ten key and full key. These confusing names become workable realities to the business education student. The clacking typewriters, hum of adding and duplicating machines, and bri- ing of timers, are everyday static to those who operate in this environment. Sixty words per minute in typing or 100 words per minute in shorthand are goals that are strived for. Notehand is a confusing maze that, when untangled, yields an intelligible chain of thoughts or instructions. Book- keeping students become familiar with column upon column of figures and facts concerning accounts of corporations, payrolls and individuals. Future Secretaries of America is the club associated with business edu- cation courses. The club introduces members to the written and assumed laws and customs of business. Monthly meetings are held at the Board of Education and cover a wide range of business-related topics. For example, one meeting was devoted to introducing FSA members to the responsibili- ties of a court recorder. Numbers, lists, white paper, black type, red pencils, blue markings: words that are familiar but whose meanings vary in a world beyond the household and next door neighborg the world of business. Debbie Hill. left. and Marilyn Marshall improve their typing speeds. 'QA 56 Avalee Moseley puzzles over shorthand. Business education includes instruction in machines.

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-,- Group discussion led by experience, the teacher, sometimes yields success in understanding conflicting ideas. Philosophy is the discourse of ideas in realms of the theoret- ical. Philosophers weigh the pragmatic and moral value of - V history and speak to their civilizations accordingly. Youth, the doubter, the prosecuter, though naive, is often the most discerning philosopher. In his ambivalence he speaks from an objective view. Strung with knowledge of little exper- 'l ience, he has no personal life to justifyg his thoughts can accommodate the lives of others. The only original philosophy would be the one that would justify someone else. : Albert Camus. Mr. Arthur interprets history in the light shed by philosophers' words. lnformality of senior philosophy class stimulates stagnant thought.

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