Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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cb Headline hunters: Irene and Gunther. IRENE AND GUNTHER LEARN about our country by studying newspapers from all parts of the United States. This course, called American Problems, is the study of our economic and social problems. With the help of textbooks, papers, and films, these two foreign students soon became acquainted with the ways and means of our government. Every student is required to sub- scribe to the American Observer, a miniature weekly newspaper, which gives us the pros and cons of current governmental issues and news of interest to all. Films play a very important part in understanding family problems and the nation’s crime. In the study of courts and their procedures, field trips to the city courtrooms are made. Irene and Gunther told us many interesting facts about. the: governments of their home- lands. This gave us interesting comparisons and new ideas for everyone to think about; so we completed a study that should help us to be better citizens.

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Sd’ Aone Pm NY pommee aa ‘ 4 ¥ ie 48 ly aS United by interests as well as by a flag: Sheila Dibley, England; Wolfgang Edl, Germany: Elloween Melkus, EHS; Paul Stemm, EHS; Claude Picard, France: Irene Larsson, Sweden: Gunther Freischutz, Germany; Dave Farley, EHS. HOWEVER, IN SOME CLASSES THERE.WERE NEW: FACES AND NEW VOICES . . . those of our friends from other countries, students from Europe who are attending EHS this year. First, there are the two students who came on our Foreign Scholarships, on the funds we raised through the Student Council. Last year we had students from other lands, and we felt that we gained so much by this plan, that we asked the American Field Service to help us get two more. They came in September, Irene Larsson from Degerfois, Sweden and Gunther Freischutz from Munich, Germany. Another boy from Germany, Wolfgang Edl, is here on a special scholarship from the United Brethern Church. Claude Picard, a French boy, and Sheila Dibley, from England, are here because their fathers are connected with business firms, and Jose Acosta, from Venezuela, lives here with his sister, the war bride of an Elkhartan. In the discussion on United Nations day, these s tudents gave us a glimpse of ourselves as others see us. 25

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OE WN tt oe i eae, Spies “Keep your eye on the copy”. ‘ TYPING IS A REQUIRED SUBJECT FOR IRENE, who hopes someday to be a private secretary. Typing has almost become a requirement for a successful college career, too. Here, Irene works on a business letter. The typing course is made up of two parts. One part teaches the student how to operate the machine and the other part is the learning of business and personal forms. At the beginning of the year each student (after paying a fifty cent rental fee), is Ce oe ep metafile: given a typewriting book and assigned to a typewriter. Several times during the course the pupils are assigned to another typewriter. The purpose of this is for the pupils to learn how to operate the different makes of machines. Typing is taught by Mr. Cooper, Miss Deal and Mrs. Hines. Students try for thirty word or forty word records and take regular speed tests. When Irene returns to her own country, she plans to continue her training for secre- tarial work. ¢