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Business course stresses
vocational preparation
By the addition of Office Practice I, the business
department broadened its curriculum to better· pre–
pare students for jobs as typists and office workers
immediately
uron
graduation. Office Practice I is a
continuation o basic typing which includes units on
manuscript, statistic and .legal typing.
As seniors, the office practice students complete
their training with Office Practice II, which gives
them a chance to apply the theory they have acquired
to a realistic situation as student secretary.
Distribution students learned about the various
opportunities available in the field of retailing and
about basic jobs such as buying, advertising and de–
sign, accounting and control, sales promotion, store
layout and stock: control. P lanning the organization
of their own businesses, business management stu–
dents studied business and economics in depth.
Courses in bookkeeping, business arithmetic,
shorthand, transcription, business law, salesmanship,
and personal typing completed the diversified offer–
ings of the department.
Business student judy Stanton deftly prepares a stencil as part ofher
secretarial duties
in
secretarial practice.
During
the lunch
hour
Mary Dorritie displays the ]Japerbacks, notebooks, pens, and other school supplies
in
the school store as Virginia
Laterra looks over the wide selection. Business students manage the store.
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