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

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GIRLS ENSEMBLE-Bottom rou' tleft to rightlz Mildred Davisson, Joanne Dennis, Nancy Pearson, Marlene Springer, Nancy Copas, and Dorothy Straub. Top row: Gertrude Weest, jean Buell, and Jo Nell Alcorn. ln September, Room IOQ, 'lireadwell Hall, was turned into a laboratory for posture classes. Included in the equipment were stall bars on which to practice posture-improving exercises, head boards for making students posture-conscious, a triple-glass mirror, tloor mats for tumbling, flat-on-your-back rests for various posture exercises, a complete file of all study tools of posture work, and a file of progress records. During the year's campus and building improve- ment program, Stuart Hall's corridors were given fresh coats of paintg the Arsenal building library, ollices, and basement were also splashed with paint of colorful hue: and a glass-enclosed buildings and STRING ENSEMBLE fleft to rightj: Louise Wyatt, accompanist, Mary Margaret Sutton, Carolyn Cook, and Ruth Ellen Fark. grounds Directory map was placed at the Nlichigan Street entrance. Two daily time schedule changes were tested du r- ing the year. ln the fall semester 'lechites had one fifty-five-minute period, divided into sections and B , only three, instead of the traditional four, lunch periods, and a half-hour-long ninth, or conference. period. During the spring semester, classes were tried on an eight-period basis, with two rifty-five-minute periods, not seetionally divided: the same three lunch hours, and a twenty-live-minute conference period. At the end of the year, it was decided to return to the former forty-live-minute, nine-period day. DANCE BAND-Bottom ron' Qleft to rightl: David Copenhaver, Edgar Davis, james Hardy, Milton Chance, Donald Henderson, Thomas Greenwood, and Joseph Seiter, vocalist. Second row: Raymond Wilson, David Schulz, Kenneth Jones, Ronald Beechler, Donald Pyle, Gene James, and Mary jane Martin, Marilyn Brock and Jacqueline Maddox, vocalists. Top row: Ernest Henninger, Randall Tucker, and Thomas Eade.

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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.

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Master Sergeant and Mrs. W. T. Campbell take a turn in the swing which this year began a new custom at the Unit's formal Military Ball. WITH New WHITE HATS, belts, leg- gings, lanyards, and 45-caliber pistols for the color guard, girl sponsors for the first timeg Federal Inspection Award which they have won continu- ally for the last 26 yearsg new letter grade marks for report cards, and new methods of instructiong the R.O.T.C. continued this year to help Tech maintain the rating of The School of Tomorrow. Since the founding of the school, the unit has been an integral part of campus activities. ln 1917 a group of boys voluntarily formed a military training unit, calling themselves the Arsenal Guards. They used Woodruff Place as their drill fieldg they did not receive credit for their work. Later they became known as the Tech Cadets. ln 1918 when the United States en- tered World War 1, city school au- thorities recognized the military unit and made it compulsory. By that time it had become known as the R.O.T.C., conforming to the National Defense Act of 1916. ln faculty changes this year a new commandant, KlasterfSergeant VVil- liam T. Campbell, replaced Master! Sergeant Delbert VV. Nichley in the Practicing marksmanship are, left to right, lst Lt. Kenneth Accepting the Hearst Trophy for Tech at the '48 Federal In- Summers, Sgt. Everett Burke. instructor, Pvt. James Sheridan. spection from Sergeant Nichley is Principal H. H. Anderson. 30