The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-03-09
Officials of High School Ask
Factories Aid in Maintain
ing Commercial Dept.
TO OPEN DOORS TO STUDENTS
Factory Managers of the City Will Co.
operate With the School Officials in
Giving Practical Work in Vacations
and Through the Year,

The following letter describes quite
fully a plan to place the Commercial
Course Of the high school in close
touch with the business and profess
sional interests in Kenosha. The plan
aims at two very important values;
namely, to put those students interest
ed in commercial work in close touch
with the kind of work desired by the
community, and to offer business and
professional men, young men and wo-
men upon whom they can depend be-
cause they have been tried out in act
ual business practice.
Where the plan has been carried out
the results have been very gratifying
Many business men who know little
of a school and it's aims soon become
interested and ready to cooperate by
giving the practical experience to sup
plement any theoretical business train
ing. Many who were skeptical as to
the value of temporary employees have
expressed their willingness to employ
permanently the students who worked
for them last summer as soon as they
were graduated from school. It is
hoped that the business and profess
sional men in Kenosha will cooperate
with the school, because the plan is
mutually of benefit and means econ
omy for all concerned.
This letter has been sent to the var
iOus manufacturing plants in the city.
Responses have been received from
some and desire shown to co operate
with the school. The high school hopes
to hear from others in the various bus
mess and professional lines i'll The city.
Dear Sir:
The commercial course of your high
school is now we'll under way. AS a
Kenosha man you undoubtedly know
the aim of the course is to secure com
mercial efficiency in its graduates. In
pursuance of this end number of pu-
pills in the two upper classes desire to
obtain summer employment in business
houses. This experience forms an in
valuable part of the business training
which the school desires to give, sup
plementing, as it does, the theoretical
teaching of the class room.
Our plan in brief is as follows: We
desire to secure positions for summer
employment for part or all of the sum
mer vacation, at a minimum wage of
from $3.50 to $500 per week, We de-
sire to place some of our students dur
ing the year also, giving them actual
business practice with you for one or
two hours per day, free of charge or
for very small remuneration. Wages
are minor consideration. The chief
aim is to give the students actual bust
ness practice,
If you have correspondence work
which requires but one or two hours
per day we shall be glad to cooperate
with you in handling this. If you de-
sire to work some of our young people
into some line of your office work grad
ually, we shall be glad to cooperate
here also. You are paying for the edu-
cation of these boys and girls. Yo4
will get much better return on your
money by assisting US in this plan.
1t seems to us that two or three
summers in position of this kind,
or one or two hours per day throughout
the year spent with you, doing your
correspondence work and other details
i of your Office, will make our graduates
much more efficient and ready for i'm
mediate service with your or any bus
mess house later.
After hearing from you, we shall
formulate our plans more fully. The
students working with you under these
conditions will be given credit for such
work, upon their high school course.
1t is because of this that we say the
salary offered is very small consid-
Grafton. We desire efficiency in our
students. With thi send in view, we
shall be glad to confer with you at
any time.
Yours sincerely,
0. S. Thompson,
prin u;nb SobooI