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

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VOCATIONAL TRAINING OFFERED AT D. H. S. 'xilfanvi' The industrial arts program, headed by Mr. David Jones, is one of the favorites of the boys at DHS. These shop courses provide training for a future occupation or more knowledge of an interesting hobby. The freshmen study industriously in mechanical drawing class. All eighth grade boys ' participate in the activities of the eighth grade shop class, which is a preliminary course to the advanced high school training. Two years of shop and one year of mechanical drawing are offered to the high school boys. This year a printing press was added to the shop equipment. Mr. Jones supervises the advanced shop class in its work. Among the projects of Miss Stayner's home economics department were nutrition and foreign foods. The advanced class prepared dishes from Italy, France, Mexico, and Germany. The effects of poor diet were studied by the beginning class. ln the experiment, six white mice were fed three differ- ent types of meals. At the end of the study, the two which had been fed the grade A meals had stayed healthy, while the other two pairs became under- nourished. At left, Miss Stayner advises the eighth grade girls in their sewing projects.

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Benson makes government and sociology class as enjoyable as possible. HISTORY PREPARES US FOR THE FUTURE The history program at DHS includes courses in citizenship, world history, United States history, government, sociology, and eighth grade history. Pupils are taught about their country and the world by Mr. Burns Becht, Mr. Calvin Benson, Mr. Robert Leedy, and Miss Wanda Keck. This training is essential not only for graduation but for good citizenship in the future. The fundamentals of World History are explained to the sophomores by Mr. Becht X '

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STUDENTS EXERCISE THEIR TALENTS lm- is ill The DHS Band prepares for band contest at Granville Wells. With a song in their hearts a n d minds filled with music, the band and choirs have had a successful season under the direction of Lynn Jones. Q3-N-frrrxg Au, 3 3 sf if '- 'fknq . - is 51' . 'Y' f -L 4 1' 4' ' ' -- The Choral Department prepares for their Spring Concert. One of the good traditions of our high school is in the area of music, and we are proud of the accomplishments of the music department. We can look back with pride on the many fine activities of our band-choral department. Cervantes once said, Where there is music, there can't be mischief. We don't know that this observation is one hundred The art classes learn to express them- selves through the creation of pictures, by working with oil paints, charcoal and different types of water colors. This year the art classes, per cent true, but we would certainly state that many of the students are better people because of their participation in DHS's music program. Some of the music highlights for this year have been the Band Tasia Concert, the choir's Christmas Program and the combined tour of the stage band and robed choir. Also scheduled was a music contest at Granville Wells. under the direction of Mrs. Kraft, worked hard to complete their projects for the art display at the Public Library. The art class completes their work for display at the Public Library.