Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-11-30
COMMERCIAL COURSE
IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL
Miss Thompson Has Been En-
gagged as Teacher.
Will Begin at Commencement of Sec
Semester, Following the Christ
mas Vacation.

A genuine and comprehensive train
ing in business practices has now
been made possible to every pupil in
the Lancaster high school by the en-
gagement of Miss Satie S. Thompson
as commercial teacher. Miss Thomp-
son will take up her work, Jan. %,
which marks the beginning of the
second half of the school year.
At the opening of school last fall,
the school board made known the fact
that thorough course in business
training was to be introduced but
owing to lack of facilities. it seemed
best not to offer the complete course
till mid year. Some changes were
made, however, that would allow
those so desiring, to begin upon their
business training at once; arithmetic
was heightened into a year course;
book keeping also was made more
complete and practical by giving a
whole year to its study instead Of the
one semester. To the members of the
third year class, work was offered in
typewriting there are about twenty
pupils at present in this class, fact
which indicates the popularity of the
subject. Some have done very good
work and promise to develop into good
typists.
But, although very excellent work
has been done in all of these subjects,
they are not inclusive of all the
branches that should be studied to
make the pupil competent to take up
Office work. The ideal is to make this
business course so thorough and COM
plete that the departure each year of
four or five Lancaster boys for business
colleges in other cities, will be an
absurdity. 1t is the hope that we may
see Lancaster graduates far be fter
fitted to take up business positions
than the business college graduates
This hope is reasonable, for the
managers of business colleges admit
that the high school graduate is in
greater demand for Office POSITIONS by
reason Of his better schooling, than
the boy or girl, who has only finished
the grammar work. To incorporate
this business work into the high school
course, demanding of its students the
same standards that are required in
every other subject, can not fail to
produce the highest grade of efficiency.
To achieve the ideal mentioned, and
fulfill the above hope, an additional
teacher has been engaged whose time
shall be devoted entirely to the up
building CT this department.
Miss Satie S. Thompson, is parti
Cularly fitted for this line Of work and
has had considerable experience in the
teaching Of it. She has been in the
teaching profession for seven years ;
for two years, she was the teacher of
shorthand and English at the Cleary
Business College, Ypsilanti, and last
year. principal Of the shorthand de-
partment of the Lansing Business Uni
versity, Lansing. Mich.
In addition to her business prepara-
tion, Miss Thompson, has had broad
education, being a graduate of the
Norway, Mich high school, and of
the Northern State Normal of
Marquette, Mich. She has also taken
further work at the Michigan State
Univ. and lacks but one year Of re.
ceiving her degree from that institu-
tiun.
Dentiite arrangements of the course
have not yet been made; these will
be announced latter. Penmanhsip,
business forms and practices and
letter writing, and good course in
shoI thand are certain to be introduce
ed perhaps some minor changes may
be made as seems best to strengthen
the department