Adams Central High School - Cen Trails Yearbook (Monroe, IN)

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and the World of Business There are many courses offered to the students in preparing for the business world. Mrs. Dillion helps prepare the A.C. girls to become better secretaries by teaching Secretarial Training. They are taught how to dress, how to conduct themselves in an office, how to help their boss, and how to operate many of the machines found in an office. She, along with Mr. Bryan, also teaches typ¬ ing to the young business men and women of tomorrow. Almost everyone will have to take care of books some time in life and Mr. Bryan helps to make this task easier. In Bookkeeping you are taught about the journals, different ledgers, balance sheets, etc. Mr. Habegger and Mr. Bryan teach a semester of Business Sales. You are taught the primary sell¬ ing techniques and what makes a business a success. A.C. ' s girls prepare for the business world. 25 Denny Striker and Larry Ellenberger practice using their selling techniques.

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Home Economics Prepares Future Homemakers Do your souffles fall? Your upside down cakes turn right side up? Why don ' t you join A.C. ' s home Economic class? All the classes spent the first semester studying the hows and why ' s of home- making. The last semester was spent applying knowledge learned during the first semester. Freshman students studied foods and proper nutrition, while sophomores learned about the care and feeding of babies. Juniors tried to balance budgets, and manage a home. Seniors studied marriage and covered topics from dating to divorce. Students were allowed to choose the garment they wished to sew. The smell of cookies, fancy cakes, yeast and din¬ ner rolls, and complete dinners, floated through the halls of Central. Freshmen students rise and shine in the morning, after eating the breakfast which they prepared themselves. Sandy Oliver points out the basic points for keeping a clear complexion to Donna Heyerly and Paula Zimmer¬ man. 24

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Industrial Arts Teaches Mechanical Skills ■ m % v iU; » t if .till!1 ■ ».;d. ! 1N vvv 1 m H EH Wm K Mgffl ■ Mr. Hakes shows Paul Shoaf and Virgil Bowers how to design the plans for a home of the future. Industrial arts prepares our architec¬ tural designers, engineers, draftsmen, and handy men of the future. In ’’shop the boys are taught the proper way to use hand and power tools, safely. These tools include the three basic power saws, the joiner, the circular, and the band saws. They also learn to use wood and metal lathes and various types of welding equipment. 26 The boys prepare themselves in learning how to handle the different types of saws.