Wilkinsburg High School - Annual Yearbook (Wilkinsburg, PA)

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A -ni ' Practicing on the comptometer . . . checking their ledgers . . . mimeographing . . . taking a speed test . . . examining the tiles in oilice practice . . . transcribing their shorthand notes. .gn 7712 fm! of Qtdon ojaief . . COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT orvna of the longest words in the English language are connected with commerce. Dictaphones, mimeographs, comptometers, and steriotypes are commonly used in the commercial student's tongueftwisting vocabulary. Almost every student spends two years acquiring skill in typing business letters of all forms and budgets and letters with carbon copies attached. In office practice, typing is used in conjunction with new. queerflooking machines which save hours of time and energy in the everfrushing business world. One truly essenf tial timefsaver of commerce is shorthand. A sheet covered with this script looks as unintelligible as a child's scribbles, but a commercial student looking at it and tracing the curious figures with the tip of his pencil produces a sane English sentence. How il29ll to become a good salesman is taught in a one year course including the things one learns at home plus buying motives and selling points, all of which will eventually make one a successful businessman. The sources, manuhicture, and cost of everyday living necessities are studied in commercial geography, and in commercial law one studies the origin and main' tenance of laws controlling the amount and quality of these necessities. Bookkeeping students carry great folders of clearly lined and hgured pages that cost hours of time to make. These papers are ledgers and cash books and journals which, to be accepted, must be neat, for neatness is the most necessary quality involved in this course. A student taking all courses offered in the commercial depart' ment could not be otherwise than well prepared for a career in the business world.

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Miz. HOWARD T. GRIFFITH Bookkeeping 4615131255 COMMERCIAL A manic success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want. fLEE , , , W eta ccumc 0561129 Miss Redcay, typing . . . Miss Steele, typing . . . Mr. Berry, commercial law . , . Mr. Chute, typing . . . Miss Thompson, office practice . . , Miss Coyil, transcription . . . Miss Lindsay, bookkeeping . . . Miss Woodw'orth, typing . . . Miss Boger, shorthand. F lf 27- 714, CLi,.,Q. - ' fffl fffcc42, A .'1? 'D i23B

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MR. W. S. WOODBURN Chemistry cien ce Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. 7 'EMERSON SCIENCE DEPARTMENT HAT day rarely passes during which some science student does not do, in addition to his work, something funny or absurdly tragic. Still, the three labs do see more hard work during the year than a concentration camp. One may see a horde of biology students with their jars and bottles collecting flowers, bugs, and insect bitesg while anxious seniors heat glass tubing, create horrible smells with their weird conf coctions as they burn their hngers. Meanwhile, in physics beside the work, one may see students mopping up puddles of water as the price of an undependable stopper. However, their greatest trial seems to be calculating, which covers more sheets of yellow paper than problems of a math class. In the laboratories there is always a terrific amount of work to doand a lot of fun and excitement in doing it. . . . Mnfnown atm! an! 721.14 5 Mr Beck, chemistry . . . Mr, Benton, geometry . . . Miss Dressler, biology . . . Mr. Tedrow, geometry . . . Mr. Lowry, shop math . . . Mr. Jeffry, physics . . . Miss j. Anderson, algebra . . . Mr. Igo, geometry . . . Mr. Weigand, biology. ll30ll