Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

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others prepare us for the future. Advanced typing is taught to prepare students for office work after graduation. In this course the student is kept striving for typing speed and accuracy. Learning filing procedures and operating the dictaphone are also a part of the course. Students also learn to operate the mimeograph and the adding machines. Other responsibilities of this class are cutting mimeograph stencils, editing the D'BULLDOG, and doing stenographic work for members of the faculty. Typing I is a valuable aid to college bound students, who must type themes and reports. For girls, typing is es- sential if they plan to do secretarial work in an office. Bookkeeping acquaints the student with bookkeeping systems of business. The basic principles are taught and then put into operation by completing several practice sets. Typing I students take a timed writing. Loretta Gonser and Diane Hare practice using a Carol Weaver concentrates on solving a difficult book- dictaphone. keeping problem. 21 PLETCHER'S FURNITURE SHOWROOMS Highway 6 West

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Some courses present the past; Jerry Lambert, Garry Seidner, and Betty Martin check the daily stock market. All seniors are required to take one semester of United States government and one of economics. With the aid of research papers, lectures, films, and newspapers, seniors gain a better understanding of how our governments operate, and of the fundamentals of making a living in our society today. United States history, required of juniors, motivates the students to take an interest in America from the day of Columbus to current times. To familiarize themselves with the historical background of other countries many students enroll in world history, view- ing the changing times and how they affect our own history. Effective living and sociology is a newly established course this year. Included during the first semester is a study of human behavior as it applies to everyday living. Such topics as teenage problems, dating, and personalities are discussed. Sociology, the study of the history, develop- ment, organization, and problems of people living together as social groups, is the course offered for the second semester. World history students and Mr. Gunderman discuss the causes of World War I. Mr. Hcimach, guest speaker, quotes statistics on the world's population trends through the centuries. PLETCHER'S VILLAGE SHOP Highway 6 West 20

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Various shop courses concentrate Two new courses have been added this year to the shop classes. A course in basic electricity proved to be very interesting to all enrolled. Also a build- ing trades course was introduced. Here students participated in projects in- cluding painting the field house and the shop room, and building cabinets for the science room. They are planning more group projects for the future. Auto mechanics is a two hour course popular with boys who are interested in cars as a hobby or as a future vocation. They become acquainted with engines and their mechanics; they do tune-up work involving rings and valves, working on their own cars or perhaps teachers' cars. Denny Corl, Terry Unsickcr, and Jerry Weldy dis- mantle a window frame to learn the principles of building construction. Auto mechanics students receive instruction from Mr. Gerber on the basic fundamentals of engine operation.