Danville High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Danville, IN)

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Students Become Leaders Of The Business World Second year typing students work to increase speed and efficiency, which are vital assets in office work. Shorthand students who are preparing for secretarial careers often take dictation from a tape recorder. Danville students gain fundamental knowledge and practical experience in the business courses. These courses offered include Typ- ing I and II, Shorthand I and II, Book- keeping I and II, general business, and for the first time in DHS history, busi- ness arithmetic. This year the commerce department sponsored ci three-act play, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, to raise money for pins and awards. Also, Indiana Central Business Col- lege and Indiana Farm Bureau were hosts to 49 commerce students who toured their buildings. With the superb guidance of Bonnie Eggers, Vivian Gilham, and Geraldene Huffman, who teach these subjects, in- terest is stimulated -in each of the com- merce courses. Business arithmetic and bookkeeping pupils learn the necessity of accurately filling out income tax reports.

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Languages Lend To Understanding Although Latin is no longer a spo- ken Ianguage, it is important to many professions. For instance, doctors and lawyers must know many Latin terms. Spanish, by the same token, is im- portant to many professions. To under- stand our neighbors south of the border, we must understand their language. Mildred Hoge and William Kassis teach Latin, while Wanda Keck teaches Spanish. Together, then, these three teachers head the language department at DHS. Both Spanish and Latin have been formed into clubs in the anticipation of creating more interest in these lan- guages. The declension of nouns is among the many things that Latin students learn. Advanced Spanish pupils sight translate from Spanish readers and magazines.

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Lessons From Past Prepare Us For The Future Courses in the Social Studies de- partment range from World History and U.S. History - the study of the founding of our civilization-to government, so- ciology, and economics-the study of problems of today. A special project this year of the junior history and senior government classes was a trip to the Indiana General Assembly in Indianapolis. U.S. History is taught by Vera Eng- lish, World History by Wanda Keck, His- tory 8 and citizenship by Robert Leedy, and Government, sociology, citizenship, and U.S. History are taught by Gene Wilson. A Sophomores watch attentively as Judy Gill points out the answer to a question on a map of the world. Juniors in Vera English's history class learn about the history of the United States. Everyone knows the answer to Robert Leedy's question concerning the history of Indiana.