Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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UPPER LEFT: Naviga+ion problems seem easy To TrigonomeTry sTudenTs. LOWER LEFT: Advanced algebra TrequenTly provides such c'omplicaTed mysTeries concerning Angle X. RIGHT: Mr. Cebren Joyner, Mr. Edson Van Dorn, and Mr. RoberT Barngrover examine geomefrical fig- ures while Dean John Paul Jones and Mr. Lee Dixon sTudy The infricacies of The slide rule. Mr. Fred Moss and Mr. Lloyd Keisling consider problems concerning The volume of solids. MATHEMATICS WhaT I ThoughT were wigwams and moons decoraTing The boards in some classrooms oT This deparTmenT, l discovered were really Triangles and spheres. Puzzled by so many unTamiliar words, I was glad To learn ThaT The sTudenTs Too are ignoranT abouT one -X. lvluch oT This course revolves around iTs meaning. Besides general maThemaTics, elemenTary and advanced algebra. plane and solid geomeTry, s+uden+s may also sTudy TrigonomeTry. AlThough noT easily adapTed To The subiecT, The use oT visual educa- Tion is being expanded by lvlr. Fred Moss and his six co-workers. There Tilms are an aid in TexTboolc sTudies. Since The sTress upon maThemaTics by The Armed Services, The MaThemaTics DeparTmenT has emphasized The uTiliTarian value oT The sub- fecal' now and in posT-war Tields and has parTicularly encouraged Those pupils who are apT in iT To conTinue Their sTudy. Page 25

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ge 24 UPPER LEFT: Mr. Russell Braflon, Mr. Earl James. Mr. Kennelh Warfhen, and Miss Vedah Covell walch Miss Ada McDonnell, Miss Rulh Wagner, and Mrs. Isabella Legg fype. UPPER RIGHT: ln Salesmanship fhe pupils learn how fo sell refrigeralors and nail polish. LOWER LEFT: Business Law feaches fhe sludenls whaf everyone should - buf oflen -doesn l - know abou? simple business arrangemanfs. LOWER RIGHT: Girls in Office Pracfice become familiar wifh +he compfomeler and fhe ediphone. COMMERCIAL Me lind lun here. Whir-r-r - clickely, clack, and lillle lellers appear on paper. Bur Jrhis deparlmenl wirh irs edi- phone, complomeler, adding machine, and lilly lypewrilers is hard work loo. Each srudenl in The Commercial Course lakes al leasl one year of bookkeeping. l-le lhen chooses one of lwo branches - 'rhe bookkeeping or The slenographic. The slen- ographers learn how lo use oilice machines and 'rhe Gregg shorlhand sysrem. Supplemenlary business courses offered are: Business Law, Business English, Business Arilhmelic, and Salesmanship. Commercial sludenls are inlroduced io lhe business world by seven able helpers, headed by Mr. Russell Brallon. i 71 , i, Ly, ff .ff'f? , 5 1 y fry fr ix J! jf-4-' ,lil l,,1'lf!j,'l7,' , rin ry QQ ps QL, ,. X is , 7 4' 3' HW, '45, i,f.li,f A ' L- M of l-.Xp XZ -,rife f wwf if -'is L cgi ,Kirk N r':-M li' l QQil7T'5- ivy i':'I :sV ip-i sis 'llisf 1 , xi. ,ima li--3 y 1ig?jlgg', 7-fix New sy Af , gg: ' rf?izfi1,1?: iilki. K 5 X-'m!,',,-,X .L yfjxiy, Nik' p, i, rg,,f avoir ffvry Lf y L Lffdygc mv if .s X I

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LANGUAGE I puzzled ai modern EngIish buf mighiy asionished when I wenf by rooms and heard, In cisierna esr agua and Si, Senor. I soon discov- ered Ihis Foreign Language Deparrmenr where pupils +oiI over Larin and Spanish. I.a'rin srudenis Iearn The cusfoms of The ancieni Romans and Jrhe oraiions of Cicero. They siudy Caesar's miIi+ary campaigns in 'rhe GaIIic War and since Larin is a basis of EngIish, 'rhese s+uden'rs increase Iheir EngIish vocabuIary. Spanish is an up-and-coming subiecr in high schools in Norrh Amer- ica. This language gives a berrer undersranding oi our neighbors in Sourh America - Iheir couniry, Iheir way of Iiice. Four Teachers are in 'rhe deparimeni wiih Miss I-IeIen RaiIsbacIc in charge of Larin and Miss Ruih CampbeII in charge oi Spanish. Through Iheir guidance iIuen+ Iinguisrs are deveIoped. LEFT: Miss Ruih Campbell, Miss HeIen Railsback. Miss Joy Geyer, and Miss Emma Hill siudy a Iisf of foreign moffoes used by members of our Armed Forces. RIGHT: Spanish sfudenfs siudy cusioms, dress, and food as well as fhe Ianguege of our Soufhern neighbors.