Indiana High School - L Indien Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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Lett is a twelfth year class ot academic students hard at work studying the Victorian Age of Eng- lish literature. These students will do well in college, not being recom- mended for admission unless they have an average grade of 85 in the subjects presented for admis- sion. To realize these objectives, the instructional program is divided into tour curricula: lll the General College, l2l the Practical Arts, l3l the Agri- culture, and l4l the Commercial, with secretarial, bookkeeping, 'and social business divisions. That standards are high in the classroom is evident in the tact that tor a number ot years we have been one ot the two county schools on the Accredited List ot the Middle States Association ot Secondary Schools and Colleges. The panel to the right, top to bottom, shows tour classroom scenes. The Typing Class will prepare stu- dents to take their place in the business world or type their personal papers. The second group is made up ot Miss Hersperger's Latin pupils who have presented the finest work in their Latin projects. The third shows Mar- garet O'l'learn delivering a talk in her eleventh-year English class. The tourth is a group of Mr. Borland's students studying the rapidly changing geography of the war years. -27

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qlifc Cllifcnc Conatantitlff atlwane at the I Scnioula ciftatunc at Gun CIICLAA qltfonlsz WHILE INDIANA, like any good, progressive secondary school, provides a wealth ot extra-cur- ricular activities tor pupil growth and development, it is in The classroom that the most serious, most ettective work ot the school is done. The school district, through the policy ot The Board ot Educa- tion andthe ettorts ot the Administration and Teach- ing Statt, is continually adapting The service ot The school to The needs ot The individual student. This policy makes necessary a more comprehensive cur- riculum and ditterent methods ot Teaching Than Tormerly, and The Taculty, Through extension and summer courses, wide reading, and school visits, is keeping abreast ot The Times in educational methods and procedures. For years Indiana has led The -25- state in The percentage oT its Teachers who have college and graduate degrees as background Tor Their work. The Taculty has as objectives in Their work seven maior principles: III that each student re- ceive Training in establishing and maintaining a home, IZI that each develop vocational etticiency, I3 that each Iearn to engage Treely in wholesome social relationships, I4I that each assume direct re- sponsibility to his government, ISI that each be Trained To achieve and keep personal Titness, Iol that each build a Tine pattern ot ethical Iiving, and I7I that each enlarge his powers ot esthetic apprecia- tion. I Top left is a scene show- ing the climax of a two- weeks' unit ot work in Jour- nalism, stuffing school pa- pers to distribute the Educa- tion Week issue. Bottom left shows a scene common in the Home Economics classes-Peggy Lydic getting Titted Tor a dress that she will make. Right is a health class taking physical educa- tion in the gymnasium.

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-l-HE FOOTBALL season was ushered in wiTh The very TinesT oT school spiriT. The Team pracTicing each evening. The band in Their brighT red uniTorms, The pep rneeTings -during The TiTTh period in The audiTorium, on The Tield, and aT The local TheaTer, The drum maioreTTes sTepping iT oTT, and The cheerleaders bursTing Their lungs in Trying To be aT Their besT Tor all games-all helped To build up The spiriT oT The season. In The evenings aTTer school. groups would gaTher on The Tield To waTch The qootbcrllll Uglnought Gut 'fha .Schoall .Spinit coaches puT The boys Through Their paces. AbouT TorTy prospecTive gridders had reporTed Tor The TirsT pracTice on AugusT 26, and oT These only Tour were leTTermen Trom The previous season. Even Though The l.iTTle indians were Tar Trom Their besT This season, large crowds oT The sTudenT body aTTended The games To cheer and buck up The spiriT oT The Team. A number OT The clubs oT The school served reTreshmenTs during The game and at The halT while The bands were perTorming on The Tield.