1918 Perry HS

Commercial Department

The Commercial Department of Perry High School was organized in the year 1911. The interest in this department has shown a remarkable increase each year and at the present time we do not hesitate to compare the work which is being accomplished here with that of any of the other high schools in the state.

This department, the past year, has been in charge of Miss Grace Barnard and Miss Margaret Moore. Their aim is ever to keep in touch with the advancement of commercial training. They are thoroughly awake to the fact that technical training is a necessity for those having charge of this work.

We urge and invite all persons, especially those interested in the commercial life of our city, to visit our department and co-operate with us in the work which we are doing. We truly feel that a very great amount of practical knowledge may be gained by such a co-operation.

There never has been a time since commercial education found a place in our economic development that the demand for commercial training has been so great as at the present time and will continue to be in the future.

The efficiency of the nation depends in some measure upon the training of young people for commercial work. Therefore, we as teachers and students have a real opportunity for rendering a very valuable service to our country.

Stenography

Shorthand is a useful art; each day a certain teacher

And certain girls and certain boys master some new feature.

They place the circle inside the curve and sigh when they come to hooks,

And sit them down at certain desks to study their shorthand books.

They all have a certain work to do in just a certain time,

Concerning certain characters, but the practice - it is fine.

Then just at certain times, in Shorthand we are told.

To close our books, and at the board our knowledge to unfold.

Dictation is a tragic thing when some word we do misspell,

For each one means a "5%" yea, our grades the story tell.

Miss Barnard, at a certain time, reads from a shorthand plate,

We Gregg this down as best we can at quite a rapid rate.

For we do find a certain fun in getting down each word,

and then to us it is a joy if our notes don't sound absurd.

When our "k's" are "gays," and certain circles should be larger,

She gives us all some good advice, which is, "You must try harder."

"To Gregg it" is a pleasant task - it has a fascination

That keeps a certain interest up, but calls for concentration.

Some pupils have a deal of trouble when learning to "s,"

But this is not so bad - the word signs take the practice.

There are two certain rules in Gregg, which tell us when to turn

A "hook" upright or on its side, this each one has to learn.

This is the motto which we keep, right out in good plain sight,

And here it is, we're proud of it, "Read everything you write."

E.R., '18.