Wabash High School - Sycamore Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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These Apaches watch attentively as Mr. Aldridge explains how not to get horribly lost in bookkeeping. “Insert the paper, double space, use a 60-space line, and a five-space paragraph indention. Don’t make any mistakes. If you do, erase them carefully.” These commands or variations of them resounded in many Apache ears this year as students prepared themselves for careers in the cold, cruel business world. They tried to learn everything which might help them in their actual jobs after graduation. They tackled all kinds of difficult procedures from the proper way to write a check to the fastest method for inserting paper in a typewriter. The sound of teachers dictating, the puzzled look on an Apache’s face as he tried to find his mistake in record keep¬ ing, and confusion which came when students changed typewriters showed that the business stu¬ dents were on the job. THROW THAT CARRIAGE; ADD THAT COLUMN These alert business students are at their typewriters willing mistakes to go away—far away where they wouldn’t be seen.

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“Gee, that problem is interesting. After all that work it does “You mean to tell me that 5x + 3x = 8x. It can’t be . . . seem that 2 times 3 equals 6. Shame to make that mistake. oh, I guess I kind of multiplied instead of added.” GET YOUR EOWtONS, GRAPHS, AND TESTS WERE This year two plus two equaled four as usual—un¬ less some poor, deluded, frustrated Apache hap¬ pened to be taking a math test. Then two and two could have been equal to anything from —14 to 110 (all of them equally wrong). Apaches fought their way through mathematics, algebra, trigonom¬ etry, and more algebra. They swam through a haze of interest problems, quadratic equations, graphs, and a multitude of other exercises. When the Apaches had survived these horrors, they were sub¬ jected to geometric proofs, mathematical induction, and imaginary numbers. The problems presented by the imaginary numbers were real enough to the Apaches though. Toward the end of the year, the mists cleared, and Apaches received the biggest surprise of their lives. Lo and behold, they knew how to work these problems. Miss Mills explains the basic principles of logarithms and antilo¬ garithms to a bewildered Apache. 26

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LIBRARIANS—Susan Craig, Sharon Ranstead, Judie Little, Kay Finfrock, Diane Coble, Linda Herell, Edith Green, Miss Dove, and Sandy Renbarger. WORJO, a AK, R£AD Take attendance, write an outline, check out books, deliver a speech, type up health cards. Apaches went out of their way this year to acquire better speaking habits (really a necessity since Apaches talk all the time) and to make themselves better un¬ derstood. Apaches helped in the library, in the deans’ office, and even in the principal’s office in order to help WHS’s teachers. Librarians and office help learned much that they could not have learned in class—responsibility, knowledge of service. Speech students also learned much—stage fright, nerves, and finally poise. OFFICE AIDS—(Front Row) Sue Shalley, Linda Myers, Nancy Durnbaugh. (Second Row) Nancy Brady, Tony Wright, Donna Wolf. (Third Row) Mrs. Shaver, Mr. Martin, Mrs. Deckard, Pat Bennett. “On one hand you have this, and on the other hand you have that.” And in the middle you have an Apache deliver¬ ing a speech.