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

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'G A-life, . - 1 4. Y '-g.. N ,. ' Ji gl . While Betty Dean and Shirley Watson set the table, Jean and Joan Jonas keep things Warm in the practice dining room. understanding concerning other peoples, introduced more universally-interesting textbooks. ln Spanish, it was E! Camino Real QThe Royal Roady which tells of Spain's explorations and the rich heritages left to the New VVorld. Miss Edith Allen, Spanish teacher, broke into print as co-author of a complete Spanish textbook in September, 1948. French classes had the new text, Le frarzqafs ef In Frazzref' in which grammar is held to a minimum and colorful information about French life, history. customs, and institutions is interestingly presented. E115-X' Germarz was the third new text adopted. It is well illustrated and provides interesting material on Manning the controls and testing technical devices in Radio Shop are Wilmot Goodall, left, and Eugene Dobbs. ,..Z'1' 1 . Checking for becoming colors in clothing class are, left to right, Sarah Frank, Mary Lou Baker, and Miss Pearl Apland. modern and historical German life as well as infor- mation on Germany's contribution to civilization in the fields of art, science, music, and literature. The Spanish Club presented the department with a radiola so that records are now used as an aid to ear training and the learning of songs. In May, a special program of recognition honor- ing Commercial department students who had won typing, stenography, and machine calculation awards, was held in the Forum. Also, this spring, the depart- ment revived the course in advertising, with credit given in either the Commercial or Art departments. Pride and joy of the ever-growing Music depart- ment were its new, larger Treadwell Hall oflices in Giving a performance at radio station WISH are members of the radio expression classes, aided by the Girls' Ensemble.

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MADRIGAL SINGERS Qleft to rightjz Mary Jane Martin, Gerald Everett. Nancy Shearer, John Newman, Charlotte Green, Richard Berryman, and Ronald Deem. Not pictured, Janet Heller. ln the Chemistry department advanced classes, a plan encouraging students to accomplish more than the minimum work requirement was put into opera- tion. This plan emphasized the individual's personal initiative, allowing him as much time as he individu- ally needed to finish an experiment or project. ln the Agriculture department a special spring semester experiment concerning application of com- mercial fertilizers was introduced. Three different application methods were employedg the method pro- ducing the best plants will be used further. Starting on a Drafting department project in the spring, 1948, semester, students in Machine Drafting classes prepared all of the detail and assembly draw- The Tech Choir, directed by Mr. J. Russell Paxton, sings selec- tions from Handel's Messiah in an all-school assembly. BOYS OCTET-Bottom row Cleft to rightj: Ralph Katzenberger, James Cone, Accompanist Ann Garrison, Michael May, and Donald Harbin. Top row: Harold Thoman, Robert Lukens, John Schwab, and Robert Schlueter. ings necessary for the ultimate completion of a num- ber of watchmakers' lathes now used in the Technical High School evening classes. Also passing in the 1949 Drafting department re- view were special exhibitions of Architectural Art class drawings, presented in cooperation with certain .Art department classes. A comparatively new course, Family Living, of- fered by the Physical Education, Home Economics, and Social Studies departments, forged ahead, in- creasing all-senior memberships by twice as many students as in 1947-'48 It came into its own in the modern Held of training well-educated adolescents now for better-educated adult family members. Disguised in make-up and vivid costumes, the clowns play their parts Well, providing amusement at the music carnival.