Shot of group of girls in Distributive Education class

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20031444

Description

Shot of group of girls in Distributive Education class. No names appear in the truncated clipping in the folder. Eight young women are seated in a classroom working at a table covered with books and papers. From the left, the first young woman is wearing a flower print dress and a string a graduated pearls. The second young woman is wearing a knit top and a string of graduated pearls. The third woman is mostly hidden from view but is wearing a light colored top, a white bow in her hair, and has painted fingernails. The woman at the end of the table in a dark top is reading and holding a pencil. Next to her a woman mostly hidden is in a light colored top, also reading. Sixth from the left is a young woman making eye contact with someone left of the camera, wearing a checked or gingham dress or suit. Her nails are painted and she is holding a pencil. The seventh woman, seated nearest the camera is in a light top and a gingham skirt. Tucked under the table next to her knees are books and a handbag. Seated far to the right of the photo, the eighth young woman, in a light blouse, floral print skirt, wire-rimmed glasses and a string of beads, is gazing directly at the camera. She is cropped from the newspaper clipping. Several of the young women are wearing rings, bracelets, and hair ribbons. All are holding pencils or fountain pens. Clipping: "DIPLOMATS, NEW TYPE – In inset is the teacher, Mrs. Grace. By Nadeane Walker. If you are one of the slippery shoppers who tell salesgirls your just looking around, or you like it but it's not your color. . . Abandon those old dodges. Sixteen-year-old high school students in a class called Distributive Education are learning how to brush them aside, sell you something anyway, and make you like it. What's more, they're leaning how to handle you without ruffling your temper, and how to gain your confidence so that you'll really believe the salesgirl when she says, "Sorry, we're out." Their aim is to make you forget the slights of the past and bring back diplomacy to store counters, modestly speaking, with the knowledge of what to do and the desire to do it well them aim to revolutionize selling. PUT IT INTO PRACTICE. Distributive education classes, where selected applicants learn the principles of sales work in the classroom in the morning and practice them in downtown store jobs in the afternoon, were started in two Fort Worth high schools, Paschal and Polytechnic, for the first time this year.Instructor for the courses is Evelyn Randall Grace, who holds a master's degree in merchandising from Drake University and has six years of business experience behind her.The distributive education class . . . (article is cropped)Students selected for the course got their own jobs, usually on first application. They and their parents signed a contract with the school and the store, wherein the student agreed to 'diligently and faithfully perform the work incidental to the trade,' and the school agreed to 'direct the student in the study of related technical information and to correlate the practical work with school instruction.' . . . (article is cropped). . . approval on part of both school authorities, anxious to balance academic with practical training, and store personnel managers, had-pressed for help.Proper job attitude and conduct, care and arrangement of stock and display, store arithmetic and English, related merchandising and textile information, business ethics, principles of selling, types of customers and how to handle them . . ." (end of article cropped from the clipping)Stamped: Star-Telegram Morn. Oct. 31, 1943

Archival Date

1943-10-14

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-294

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Dresses; Pearls,Writing materials,Textbooks; Pencils; Pens; Grace, Evelyn Randall; Distributive Education Classes; High school students; Drake University