The Indian Leader

UPSTAIRS
By Helen LeClere

Strolling through Miss Selma Hoffmann's typewriting classroom eighth period, I found Nevada Sanders and Barbara Keahna diligently working on stencil cutting. Operating the mimeograph were Martha Anderson and William Pruner. All quantity material that has to be printed or typed is done by commercial students during their office practice periods or during their free time.

Recently a big project that required commercial students was the making of the student roster. Helping with the stencil cutting were Darnell Humphrey, Wanda Childers, Barbara Freidlander, Eldora Beauprey, Nevada Sanders, Elizabeth Track, Geraldine Claymore, Ruth Cook and many more.

Going on through Room 20, I saw Gail Smith, Scotty Chadwick, Betty White, Reba Adams, and Tallulah Tulee working on a difficult accounting problem. Sometimes only one cent may "throw" the books off, but it must be found and corrected. These students not only correct their errors, but study the transaction further to learn the why's as well as the whereabouts of that cent.

A sound effects man would have difficulty identifying what kind of machine work goes on in Room 17 from the noise that comes forth. But we know that it is either Mr. Floyd Stayton's or Mr. Alphus Wilson's classes giving the "counting-the-finger" method a rest. They need only to punch a key here and there and copy the recorded answers.

On one side of Room 20, Sally Pawwinnee and Margaret Runningwolf are busily engaged in their assembly-line production of packaged copies of Indian Education sent to offices all over the U. S. regularly. They count, sort, wrap and address each package, then sort into states the mail before it is taken to the post office. This mailing project is a big job, for many help with it at other times.

In Room 16 Abby Cornelius, Leah Paradise, Ramona Trujillo, Farrell Emhoolah, Nathan Bear and Burton Rider were busy typing or perhaps it was their finger work-out to keep them limber for playing their musical instruments.

In Mr. Wilson's room, Cara Leta Lay, Joy Shields, Ruth Noseep, Melvin Rutherford, Faye Lee, Yvonne Wells and Elizabeth Charcoal were checking special journal test papers. (Wonder if they all made A's.)

Room 14 held such personalities as Pres. Victor Crazybear, who because of an emergency trip to the Veterans Administration in K. C., was faced with an emergency English test when he returned. Everybody else took it while he was gone. Ann Lumpmouth was enjoying a 100-word spelling test.

Commercial students are being stumped with the conjugation of verbs. One student walked right into the "think-thank-thunk" combination. Following this Giles Yankton came up with "wring-rinse-rinsed". He should take up the laundry training program.

Magnifying lenses won't be needed when research concerning Haskell history begins. All senior-commercials will soon begin writing themes on different periods of Haskell's history. Some are writing on the school's history through all the years; others are writing about a particular subject or phase of Haskell's history, and still others are writing on a yearly basis covering all phases within that year.

In these busy upstairs after-school hours, many students are still at work. A rare sight was Carlyle Cuellar writing a letter--home. How could he have done it without a typewriter?

Teachers have to wait for students to vacate their rooms before they can lock up. So -I had to vacate, too. . . .