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 HE Comptometer School in Seattle has tried out a program of recreation outside of school hours. During the warm summer months the student operators and their friends could be seen leaving the school carrying swimming suits and a plentiful supply of picnic delicacies—watermelons, hamburgers, beans, etc.

Refreshed after a few hours' swim, we would gather around a cozy campfire and with someone strumming the ukelele all joined in and harmonized on popular melodies. Gossip about friends and the school, and proper attention to the "eats" were then in order—bringing to a close a "perfect day".

The idea has proved so popular that plans are being made to continue these picnics this winter, using the Y.W.C.A. when Puget Sound "sounds" too cold.

We certainly advise other schools to try this scheme from which we derive so much pleasure.

(That's a splendid idea, and not the least of which is the efficiency indicated in wearing bathing suits to eat watermelons—Ed.')

Alice Gerry is back in Seattle after several months' auditing work with the Mercantile Trust Co., San Francisco. Miss Gerry was for three years in government work in Bremerton and was instructor in our Seattle Comptometer school for one year. Alice is now in full charge of a battery of Comptometers at the Standard Oil Co., Seattle.

HE latest name to be added to the "Honor Roll" in Memphis is that of Miss Margaret Merriam. Margaret added sixty columns correctly on her twenty-first day in school, thereby winning the much coveted Comptometer ring. (That's fine! Both Miss Merriam and the Memphis school are to be congratulated.)

The students of the Memphis school surprised Mr. Avery on October 21st, his birthday anniversary, by remembering him with a little party and some gifts.

Mr. Avery was somewhat taken back by this expression of appreciation and loyalty, and responded with an audible blush and the statement that he thought his birthdays were long since over but that to be so pleasantly reminded takes the sting out of them.

Birthdays seeming to be in order, Miss Solomon showed up a few days later with another link in her chain of years. Strange to say, she didn't suspect a thing, and at noon machines were pushed aside and all desks used for a spread, which could well be called a "banquet".