The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1950 Page: 3 of 14
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THE MATHIS NEWS
November 17, 1950
KNOW YOUR SCHOOL
Students Can Be Businessmen
With High School Training
A high school graduate can be
a businessman.
At least with the proper perspec-
tive, ambition and intelligence,
there is no reason why a student
can’t graduate from Mathis High.
School and go right into business.
The reason is that by choosing,
wiselv the commercial subjects of-
£ered~ here, the student has had a
basic background of business
training.
Of course, a student can no mere
be a highly skilled businessman
than a student who has had busi-
ness administration in college.
Practice and experience is neces-
sary.
But the four commercial courses
offered at MHS — bookkeeping,
typing, secretarial practice and
shorthand — have proved the
foundation.
Ray Haisler, head of the com-
mercial department here, believes
that these elective courses are
.important enough to be required
courses.
“Bookkeeping is important
whether a student intends to at-
tend college or not or whether
he intends to enter the business
World,” Haisler said.
“For instance,” he continued,
“a great majority of the boys in
MHS intend to be farmers — an
occupation that requires careful
bookkeeping, though little empha-
sis is usually placed on this phase
of agriculture.”
The commercial teacher added
that secretarial practice and short-
hand often insures that girls are
able to get secretarial jobs after
high school or to help defray ex-
penses while they attend college.
PART TIME JOBS
Several of the commercial stu-
dents have jobs while in school
that either resulted from their
business training, or afford them
practice in this line of work
Artis McEachern works at Creel
and London. Mary Beth McClel-
lan works at the “It” Theatre.
Other students work in the
school offices, where their com-
mercial subjects are job-tested.
Possibly the most versatile
course offered by the commercial
department is secretarial practice.
In this course, the student is “ex-
posed” to the various office mach-
ines and office routine not us-
ually covered by such courses.
For instance, students are in-
structed in filing, using the mim-
eograph and ditto machines, and
telephone conversation.
In the latter study, they are
checked for their “telephone per-
sonality” and the sound of their
voice over the telephone. In line
with this study, Haisler intends
to make arrangements with the
local telephone office, if possible,
so that operators there can judge
and give constructive criticism of
student’s voices.
Grooming for the job and cus-
tomer-salesman relationship are
alse taught in the classes.
CHART PROGRESS
“A student likes to know how
he is progressing,” Haisler said.
Knowing this, the school has pro-
vided a chart to show the stu-
dent’s progress. , The chart, on
the wall of the typing room, has
the name of each student and
his progress on a graph.
The graph is especially adapt-
able to the typing courses, since
these are based primarily ons
.speed and accuracy.
One of Haislers students, Ra-
miro Moreno, led his typing class
with 12 words per minute the
first few weeks of school. At
the end of 10 weeks he has pro-
gressed to 24 words, an excep-
tionally good speed for a firsr
year student, Haisler said.
Billy Meyer started at six words
a minute, progressed to 13 words
a minute at the end of six weeks,
and now types 20 words.
The students keep up their pro-
gress with outside practice, some-
times as much as two or three*
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The Binkleys
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periods a day, fighting to push up
the marks on the chart, Haisler
said.
“At the end of the second year
of typing,” he continued, “they
should do 40-50 words per min-
ute with about four errors. But
some students have made as
much as 82 w.p.m. with no er-
rors.”
Not all students are interested
in the course, the commercial
teacher commented. “In fact,
we have to scrape to fill up the
classes,” he said.
SHOW ENTHUSIASM
But those who are interested in
the course show an enthusiasm
exemplified a few weeks ago in.a
typing -test.
In the test, Haisler decided to
make it an endurance run. He
did not tell the students how long
the test would last.
At the end of about 20 minutes
he asked the students if they
wanted to quit and they answered,
busily typing, with an emphatic
“no.” At the end of about 45
minutes he asked them again and
received the same negative reply.
“Some of the students quit be-
fore the others,” Haisler said,
“but one girl typed one hour,
making 41 words per minute
With 92 per cent accuracy — an
excellent record.”
None of the students had less
than 81 per cent accuracy, he
added.
Haisler, who has been teaching
two years, began his career at
Devine, following graduation from
SWSTC at San Marcos in 1947.
In 1948-49 he worked at Corpus
Christi with a retail organization.
That year, his wife, who teaches
eighth and nineth grade Englishi
|here, taught at Sundeen. The
current school term is his first at
Mathis,
Now about half finished with
work on his master’s degree at
Texas A&I, Haisler has taught
commercial subjects throughout
his teaching career.
GIRL SCOUT INVESTITURE
SLATED SUNDAY, NOV. 19
The regular Girl Scout meeting
was held Monday, Nov. 13, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Tiemanm
Some of the girls worked on
their designs for their Christmas
cards. Others glued the linoleum
to the wood for block-prints,
Kathy Brown, troop scribe, said.
The Girl Scout Investiture wih
•be Sunday, Nov. 19, at 4:00 p.m.
on the high school grounds. Prac-
tice was held for the ceremony.
The emcee will be Joanne Jen-
nings. Bugler is Kathy Brown,
and color guards are Marilyn!
Hicks, Maedene Maedgen, and Mar
garet Mullins.
At the meeting the girls decided
to go caroling in the Christmas
season.
Mrs. Sid Ferrell visited in
Kingsville this week with rel-
atives.
Chiropractor
Dr. L. Trewitt
OFFICE HOURS: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to
6 p.m. Closed Thursday p.m.
PHONE 461
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Brown, Joe & Dulaney, Paul. The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1950, newspaper, November 17, 1950; Mathis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1045941/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mathis Public Library.