Whitmer High School - Oracle Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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eB Aw Ambition — to be a priest, Appreciates — symphonic orchestras, Peeve — people who Andrew Dieringer — Business, don‘t follow directions. Linda Van Gunten Ambition — none in particular, Appreciates — reading, Peeve — men drivers. Business, F.B.L.A., Mrs. Virginia Baker — Senior Y-Teens, Ambition — to be an outstanding Business, student, Appreciates — perfection, Peeve — carelessness. Shorthand supplies symbols for sentences. In our world of growing technology, greater emphasis is pla ced upon clear and efficient communication than ever before. Typing helps solve this need because typing can be read easily, even though it is put on paper muc faster than a person can write. Any student, no matter what his plans for the future, can benefit from a typing course. A requirement that is often expected of secretarial ap- plicants is skill in shorthand. By simply using symbols to represent sounds and words, the secretary can write as many as 120 words a minute. After one year of short- hand, students are expected to be able to write 60-80 words a minute; after two years 90-120 words per min- ute are required. Many toilsome office chores are being done by machines today, but often the machines are so complicated that a mere novice couldn’t just “push a button’ and make them work. The business machines classes learn not only how to operate these time-savers, but also haw to take them apart to clean or adjust them. Bookkeeping proves to be a useful course, no matter what a student plans to do when he is finished with high school. People are confronted with standard records and tax forms everyday. This course teaches the funda- mentals of the system and provides a solid backgro und for those who wish to study bookkeeping at a higher level. Carol McHaffie checks her figures as she operates a bookkeeping machine. EDWIN KNEPPER — Business, Ambition — to direct a band, Appreciates — musicals, Peeve — not enough time to do everything ‘d like to do.

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A football field serves as a scoreboard in typing class. Here Lois Mitchell and Tom Roth mark their own progress and move closer to a touchdown. Typing techniques are an invaluable aid. 18 MRS. GERTRUDE SHANTEAU — Business, F.B.L.A., Ambition — to teach, Appre- ciates — music, Peeve — students who don’t do their assignments. SUE HARTMAN — Business, Soph. Y- Teens, Ambition — to be a private sec- retary, Appreciates — art, Peeve — Question, “Are we doing anything im portant today?” ROBERT LOWTHER — Business, Senior Hi-Y, Ambition — to be a commercial airline pilot, Appreciates — a good choral group, Peeve — gum chewing. MRS. MONA JANE MILNE — Business, Ambition — to work with people, Ap- preciates — T.V. program, “The Ameri- can Economy,” Peeve — lack of benefi- cial television.

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SO ME ae aR ee er mem More than one pair of hands is required to complete this experiment quickly so Dick Knauer, Karen Car- rick, and Dave George each perform a different phase of the distillation test. Courses probe into the chemistry of life students, have presented. Periods in the laboratory are spent learning how elements and compounds react with other substances. When a sufficiently strong back- ground in lab work has been established, students are given unknown substances on which they run series of tests to determine what the element or compound is. Chemistry, the study of elements and the changes which they undergo, is a typical science course. It is growing and expanding so fast that textbook material is often outdated and must be supplemented by outside texts and articles. The language of this science course is mathematics. The processes learned in math classes help to solve real problems that facts and laws, new to the Darryl Bowlin chooses one of the many preserved specimens in the biology laboratory to exc ine at closer range. Norman Hunter — Science, Ambition — to fly an airplane, Appreciates — semi- classicals, Peeve — ‘Those horrible ‘poof’ hairdos!”