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

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promote clear thinking about social events, advance- ments, and potentialities. Fall, 1948, saw American Government classes em- barking upon a project employing the real-life tactics of a full-scale political campaign! Following a true- to-style national election plan, Tech's Nationalists and Federalists word-battled it out, right up to the final November ll election day, voting in the Student Center where regulation voting machines were put into action! Dane Ashcraft and Sally Lou McClung, Sign Painting pupils, add final touches to posters advertising school events. Fully equipped with pencils, erasers, irregular curve, draft square, bow pencil, and drafting machine, Wallace Perrigo works on a drawing. The student legislators later attended a student leg- islature at the State House where each city school was represented in proportion to its enrollment, a 'treason- able facsimile of state government. In the spring, government classes again held an election, this time, a city election, at the close of which the students were addressed by mayor of Indi- anapolis, the Honorable Al Feeney. This department received a gift of a globe which has been placed in the Social Studies office. Intent upon their tasks in photography darkroom are James Parker, developing a print, Marlene House, timing a contact.

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with two new refrigerators and twelve new stoves, placed in two foods labora- toriesg and a greater number of boys signed up to be taught the accom- plished art of fine cooking. On Klay l2, a Spring Fashion Show of clothes made by girls in each cloth- ing class was presented in the Forum. Also included in this department's activities was the making of new satin skirts for yell leaders and capes and caps for newly-elected R.O.'l'.C. girl sponsors by students of the Dressmak- ing and Nlillinery Shops. 'l'hroughout lf?-lS and I9-I-9, student horticulturalists of the botany classes made up corsages and delicately green- tinted white carnations for the Service Club sales in 'lireadwell Hall: re- planted several campus tlower beds: and made their animal spring gardens, north of Treadwell Hall. American Problems, a Social Studies course, was first offered in I9-P8 as a required study, combining economics and sociology into a course designed to Dixie Allred explains the land contour in Asia to Russell Dennis using one of the Physiography department's globes. In Radio Expression classes, students write, direct, pro- duce, and take part in skits before live mikes in the stu- dios of WATS. Practicing a crowd effect are, left to right, Richard Berryman, Joan Chambers. Richard Stanfield, and Janet Spall. All-school broadcasts pre- sented from WATS are su- pervised by faculty members Mr. C. S. Stewart, left, Mr. W. A. Rush, and Mrs. Ressie Fix. Y 9 x 23

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Finishing a paper backdrop in stagecraft class are, left to right, Thomas Shields, Jack Wilmoth, and Kenneth Slack. ln the State division of the national Scholastic Art Awards contest, Nlarch, 1949, the Art department took thirteen gold key awards and had ten other pieces in art and photography accepted. The gold key pieces were sent to the national exhibit. Klarch also marked the dedication of the Elizabeth M. Jasper Art Library and the naming of the Robert C Craig Gallery on the third Hoor of Stuart Hall. Nliss Jasper was Tech's First art teacherg and Nlr. Craig, the first Art department head. Learning to repair pipes in Plumbing class are William Hughett, left, and William Kenipe. Highlighting the Latin departments year was the lecture by Dr. Bruno Nleinecke, who traveled from the University of Michigan to speak before ATS students and faculty on Greek and Latin music, Nlarch 14, in the Forum. Because rapid communication has brought peoples of the earth closer together and each adolescent citi- zen of Indiana is increasingly aware of the products, culture, and languages of his world neighbors, the Modern Language department, in order to create full Surveying each tiny detail of her model, Martha Myers paints a still life picture in the seventh hour oil painting class.