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Show COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT E. Tarr Our commercial department now numbers 79 g'rls, 35 boys, a total of 114 students. Classmen Class-men from all four of the high school grades are in our group and we are earnestly considering a suitable motto for our work. Several new typewriters have been added to our equipment. We were much pleased to have the Underwood representative, former maintenance man for the Geneva Steel Works during the war, spend a day with us, putting put-ting the machines in order and discussing with us the proper care and possible use of typewriters type-writers in our life work. We hope to have on his next visit with us, an Assembly to show us the two films an commercial tips he sponsors Our Commercial Fund, made up of the 50c each pupil pays for the year's use of the machines, plus the book discounts from prompt payment of all our bills, enabled us to purchase a set of the latest edition of 20th Century Cen-tury Typing Books for class use, and to buy the bookkeeping class their workbooks this year. With the remainder we are hoping to be able to secure a clock for shorthand dictating purposes, a paper cutter which we hope to loan to the elementary school in return for past favors, and some special commercial tests put out by the publishing houses. Aside from the contest work required of all commercial departments de-partments in the district, we wish to take in this year, as last year, the Utah State Merit Tests. We hope a state representative may be secured from Milford, as it was for Beaver last spring, so that our students may take these state tests locally. We not only save the expense of an outward out-ward trip by so doing, the wear and tear on dispositions due to nervous strain of test-taking in unfamiliar surroundings, but we secure the addition of some $8.00 to our fund from the state's payment to the one giving the tests the department head, usually. |