Under plans announced yesterday by Miss Ruby Orth, instructor, retail selling classes at the senior high school will be conducted on an enlarged scale during the 1939-40 term with classwork offered in beginning and advanced courses.
The courses were organized here two years ago under the George Dean act of congress which authorized the establishment of classes in retail selling on a basis similar to Smith-Hughes courses in agriculture and home economics. Lewiston is one of three Idaho cities offering the courses. The others are Boise and Idaho Falls.
Students in the courses are required under the terms of the act to be employed 15 hours a week in some form of selling. During the summer, Miss Orth made a survey of 300 places of business in Lewiston, she said, and will contact them again this week to determine work possibilities for students desiring to prepare for selling occupations.
Four credits will be offered in beginning and advanced courses this year. Class will be of two hours duration. The first hour will be devoted to a study of retail selling and during the second, pupils will study the particular occupation in which they wish to engage.
Sixty were enrolled in elementary courses last year. Miss Orth said she would be at the senior high school Wednesday to confer with prospective students.
This story was published in the Aug. 27, 1939, edition of the Lewiston Tribune.
