High-resolution, full color images available online
Search, browse, read, and print yearbook pages
View college, high school, and military yearbooks
Browse our digital annual library spanning centuries
Support the schools in our program by subscribing
Privacy, as we do not track users or sell information
Page 9 text:
“
dass learns operation of machines. Whiting High is equipped with many excellent facilities for student use. Courses offered for juniors and seniors in office training are shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, and office practice. The shorthand course is offered for two years. In this class students are taught to take dictation at the rate of 120 words a minute and to transcribe letters from their notes. Typing enables students to type at the rate of 55 words a minute, to write advanced business correspondence, and to tabulate and write business forms, manuscripts, rough drafts, legal forms, and statements. In bookkeeping students learn the basic fundamentals of accounting and how to keep legible records. Those enrolled in office practice study filing and other skills used in the business world. They learn how to operate the ditto, the mimeograph, and calculating machines. Looks like the power of concentration is being applied in the bookkeeping class.
”
Page 8 text:
“
Second-year shorthand students are taught new shortcuts in taking dictation. First-year typing class finishes up a timed writing. 4
”
Page 10 text:
“
Why couldn’t we eat off paper plates? Jan Kiraly, I aiula Keith, and Jitnnty Beakley. Cooking is taught to develop an interest in better homemaking and better living. It teaches principles of good nutrition, meal preparation, and proper food serving. Time and money management are also taught. Those who take sewing learn clothing construction, color contrasts, and how to care for, choose, and use material. They also are taught how to sew simple and complex clothing patterns. The printing department offers all boys the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of printing such as setting type, proofing, correcting, locking up, and printing the forms. Related work concerns making layouts, stock cutting, English usage, shop mathematics, making linoleum blocks, padding, bookbinding and miscellaneous information or skills. The machine shop course is set up with two major objectives: one, vocational; the other, general. It trains a boy to go into a trade after graduation. Francis Dado shows off her newest creation as Alene Abner and Bonnie Sorrels look on. (This should be in Vogue.) 6
Are you trying to find old school friends, old classmates, fellow servicemen or shipmates? Do you want to see past girlfriends or boyfriends? Relive homecoming, prom, graduation, and other moments on campus captured in yearbook pictures. Revisit your fraternity or sorority and see familiar places. See members of old school clubs and relive old times. Start your search today!
Looking for old family members and relatives? Do you want to find pictures of parents or grandparents when they were in school? Want to find out what hairstyle was popular in the 1920s? E-Yearbook.com has a wealth of genealogy information spanning over a century for many schools with full text search. Use our online Genealogy Resource to uncover history quickly!
Are you planning a reunion and need assistance? E-Yearbook.com can help you with scanning and providing access to yearbook images for promotional materials and activities. We can provide you with an electronic version of your yearbook that can assist you with reunion planning. E-Yearbook.com will also publish the yearbook images online for people to share and enjoy.
