Highland High School - Shield Yearbook (Highland, IN)

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Courses Offering 23 Study Units Each Vickie Glick and Linda Doll try their skill at transforming limp dry goods into popular, modern fashions. Gee! Was it one or two-thirds of a cup?” wonders Donna Hamilton.

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Needed for Graduation Studies at HHS always look to the future. Students prepar- ing for a good job and those planning to attend college found their future adequately planned through the facilities at Highland. Instructors and students concerned with a commercial course found the future ever present in opportunity and the modem equipment at their disposal. Business courses included academic solids as well as clerical classes designed to give the student actual contact with machines and situations encountered in the business world. Adding ma- chines and electric typewriters aided the teachers in explaining clerical techniques. Manual shop classes combined with a schedule of good solid courses provided a well-rounded educational experience for boys at all grade levels. By sharing tools and machines, the boys learned cooperation with and consideration of the other person- two characteristics important in becoming good citizens. The mathematics department also played an important pan in preparing college-bound students for institutions of higher learning. Besides the standard courses seniors enrolled in ad- vanced mathematics courses consisting of the study of trigonom- etry, logarithms, oblique triangles, college algebra, and some analytical geometry. Myrna Paterson finds a wealth of practical experience in clerical practice.

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Offer Us Challenges The academic importance of high school is taken seriously by both teachers and students. This is an essential attitude for the educational systems of today are molding the minds of the- citizens of tomorrow. Two of the most modern rooms contain the cooking and sewing units for the home economics classes. Cooking is an age-old art which Highland has modernized by teaching girls how to use appliances found in the modern home. The girls used acquired knowledge of the past to reproduce the styles of today s fashion-conscious world. Use of recently developed, time-saving devices was taught and applied daily. The most modern of facilities from garbage disposals to button-holers plus the qualified teachers made home economics courses a must in forming the homemaker and wife of tomorrow. Science laboratories equipped with the best apparatus for observations and experiments aid students in precise experi- ments. Science is an ever changing field of study, and the stu- dents at HHS were kept well-informed on the newest devel- opments in all phases of the scientific world. Five courses of science were offered to high schoolers this year: two, biology and health safety were state required subjects, while chemis- try, physics, and advanced biology were electives. Mechanical drawing was a part of the curricula aimed at the future. In these classes, one found boys busy mastering the fundamentals of architecture. Experience in working with draw- ing instruments was abundant and the best artistic imagina- tions were given a good workout. Schools are the building blocks of our nation’s future and because of this HHS believes in advancement. The administra- tion is primarily interested in instructing the students in the modern concepts of philosophy, engineering and liberal arts. Thus, one can understand why the academic life at Highland is constantly expanding and growing in depth. The teachers and subjects are full of resources which are being exploited to their zenith.