Arizona republican., 1915-05-22
SHOWING
MADE At P.H.S.
Rotarians See Business De-
partment, Where Awards
for Typewriting and
Shorthand Convince One
of Schools Glass

There was splendid exhibit in
the commercial department of the
high school consisting of typewriting,
shorthand, penmanship and book
keeping, for the Rotary club yester-
day, noon. Besides the exhibits the
office-training department was in
operation the students taking and
transcribing letters. filing letters,
and performing various other forms
of office work.
Among the interesting exhibits
were the individual winnings of Dor
othy Howard. Felix Rosas, Ida Mae
Cole, and Arthur Sutherland. Doro-
thy Howard had the following: Rem
ingtOn and Underwood pennants, 40
word L. c. Smith certificate, 40
word Underwood certificate, 40-word
Remington card case, 6O-word L. c.
Smith certificate. 6O-word Underwood
card case. Remington Gold Medal
certificate, Remington Gold Medal
for So words per minute, gold medal
won at Tucson during University
week at rs words, Underwood silver
medal at "A.
Felix Rosas displayed the follow
ing: Remington 40 word card case
Underwood 4O-wcrd certificate. I'm
derwood so word card case, Reming-
ton Gold Medal certificate. Reming-
ton gold medal at 5S words. Under
wood Gold Medal at IS words, a sill
YER medal won at Tucson for second
place in shorthand He also had a
Palmer Method, American Penman
and Zaner Student Certificate for
penmanship. and a diploma from the
commercial department for proficien-
x. 80
Ida Mae GolZe displayed: Under
wood pennant, 40 word Remington
card case. 40 word Underwood Ger
cate. so word Underwood card case.
won at 20 words per minute and an
O. G. shorthand certificate.
Arthur Sutherland exhibited: I'm
derwood gold medal at so words.
Remington Gold Medal certificate at
81. and an l. c. Smith certificate.
The exhibits in the shorthand de-
partment consisted of the different
shorthand certificates secured by the
shorthand students. The following is
taken from letter written by John
r. Gregg. author of the Gregg Short
hand system, to Mrs. Jay: 'The
work of one of your students, Wal
ter Brown, on the Gregg Writer ex-
aminations is being sent for exhibit
ton purposes to the Panoma Pacific
exposition at San Francisco"
Mrs. Gertrude Jay, one of the
shorthand teachers in the high
school, stands first in the contest
being held for the Teachers Gold
Medal
The picture of Tucker Pinney and
Samuel Holsinger was displayed with
the announcement that letter had
just been received by Mr. Michael
from Samuel HOisinger stating that
he had, in a public demonstration in
Los Angeles. written III words net
per minute for fifteen minutes. This
remarkable record made by a high
school student is within one word of
the worlds record only three years
ago. Samuel Holsinger got his type
writing training i'm the Phoenix
Union High school and says all his
success as an operator is due to his
training there. Tucker Pinney was
said to be the best stenographer they
had in the office at Stanford univer-
sity-
A telegram was shown to the eff
feet that forty final and improve
ment Palmer certificates for profile
iency in penmanship were being
awarded to students of the high
school.
Scores of other awards of different
kinds were exhibited showing the
work done by the students of the
commercial department. In the pen
manship and book keeping rooms
many beautiful specimens of pen
manship and bookkeeping were dis
plaVpd