Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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. S 4-nil 5, Miss Ruth Stone's Latin class examines map of ancient Gaul to supplement its translation of Caesar's military campaign. Music-on-record for classroom study was the Eng- lish department's new addition: English VHNI, where the phonograph record and great writers of great music are the subjects, was first offered in the fall of I9-18. Q -fini R X Ji U f' fps .x , 1, uP' 4-Nui Stagecraft classes erected a duplicate Freedom Train for Supreme Day for pupils to study the history of democracy. By popular demand, once again, in the spring of l9-19, English VIIIC, an advanced creative writing course, was resumed. Radio Expression class members participated in the first year of full-scale operation of their own Nationalist and Federalist senators and representatives gather on Statehouse steps for a city-wide student legislature, ,...-:1- F '? KOR TON . . -,.- sn ,.i ,. . .cus-.Av 0 3-..L:a.-.uk - .N-T. A.- ....:.....,.4.z-9. -.....s. fhn..5..-iafl --l-La.i..l- lv, A-, 'A' al' '-Q Qu

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Surveying class takes Glen Kastner, Robert Phillips, and David Wade, left to right, out on the campus Where they have an opportunity to put into practice problems studied in the classroom. One object sure to be measured is the flagpole. TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL'S COMPREHENSIVE curriculum is filled with contrasting study Helds! From the harsh clang of hard steel and grind- ing machines in the vocational shops to the flowing melodies of the music appreciation classesg from the blackness of the photography class dark-room to the out-of-doors marching of the R.O.T.C. unitg from the Click-clack of type- writers in the oflice practice classes to the silent purr of electric sewing machines in the dress- making classesg from the platform orations of the public speaking classes to the quiet ponder- ings of the trigonometry classesg from the nasal phrases of the French classes to the mid-West twang of the American government classesg from the burpees of the physical education classes to exacting experiments of the physics classes, from the head-up, toes-straight-ahead admonishments of posture classes to the detailed operations of the architectural drafting classes- all these study-Work fields comprise a represen- tative cross-section of ATS curriculum offerings. Tech's job is to present its four thousand stu- dents with an education for living! lts expansive curriculum affords the basis for doing this job. ln 1948-49, as in every advancing year of Tech, innovations, improvements have taken place, along with varied departmental and indi- vidual class projects and curriculum changes. Vance Funkhauser, left, Charlotte Green, and John Newman Miss Edith Allen shows the Spanish text of which she is co- play records in the music-literature course, English VIIM. author to students Donald Sicking and Judith Lobraico. W.-,

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Gold ,ml 5-ve rvwv rr U' l4'm0 u ?l 35 is KW B-df Bikini like zinc and sulphur clouds billowing skyward are a familiar sight to Mr. Lester Bolander's Chemistry I students. radio studios, the 'lVoice of Tech, Atop Stuart Tower! Completion of the technical facilities of the studio made it the medium for all-school pub- lic-address-system programs, bulletins, and emergency announcements. ln the Mathematics department the surveying class was resumed in the spring semester with the campus as well as the classroom as its 'lworkbookfl And once again, in the spring, this department had contestants in the lndi- ana State Mathematics contest. In I9-18-'-P9 homemakers of the Home Economics department were presented Mary Louise Mann, head librarian, right, dis- cusses a new book with library staff. Seated fleft to rightkz Glodene Loucks, Virginia Moore, pupil assistants. Standing: Marjorie Schock, Dorothy Busby, Letha Coakley, librarians.