Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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HOW!! 785' ,EZHIQW 7402011 QA Over in the l-lome Economics De- partment, Mrs. Ruth Shepard helps Phyllis Wallace and Patricia Land- rigan with a cooking lessons Kl-lC'tl-l4O't,ettlorescentsubstances, and other deep mysteries are as clear as crystal to Mr Floyd Jettries, chemistry teacher, who is trying to get the idea over to Barbara Myers and Carl Nieman. Miss Celia Smith, school nurse, takes Jane l-lodges' temperature. The clinic is open daily to all stu- dents. l-laye you been wondering what kept the office clicking at top-rate speed? Mr. Clarence Clayton, vicee principal, with Miss Virginia Chil- ders, secretary, and Mrs, Ruth Reed, clerk, can tell you all about it, Mrs Joan Thompson, assistant clerk lnot picturedl, is a graduate ot l-lowe and has returned to help in the otticer Keeping the students intormed on history, government, and social problems-past, present, and tuture, is the task ot the social studies teachers. Miss Dorotha Kirk confers with Jeanette Cassady and Norbert Carteaux on current problems. Mrs l-lattie Lou Winslow, Betty Sly, and Glenna Thompson discuss the func- tions ot ancient and modern gov- ernments. Mr. l-lartwell Kayler, Lois Brenn, and Lewis Brewer listen to special records on United States Government. lllustrating his point on the world globe to Jean Camp- bell and Bill Bowles is Mr. Kenneth Smartz. The high-light ot the social stud- ies year is the mock election in the tall, which trains the presentciti- zens ot the State ot l-lowe tor their places as tuture citizens ot the State ot lndiana. Well, what do you know? This must be the department that tells

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.,..:. .9102 T0 71214 mm Mom Sign your nome ond home room here, pleose. Well, this must be the librory. Yes, there's lvliss lvlorjorie Schoch, our heod librorion, helping Joyce lvlottern check out o school librory book, Gertrude Richort ond Clive Gorrett stond ot the desk, vvhile Mrs, Betty Boker, ossistont li- brorion, looks through the cord tiles. Every time I go dovvn to the ln- dustriol Arts Deportment, l tind something new ond ditterent, Yes, there's Mr. Dennis Wright ond Mr. E A. Potterson, shop teochers, help- ing Roy Virt ond Gene lvlcfllorney with the gome boords thot they mode tor the Junior Red Cross, Be- sides this, the vvood shop boys mode bollot boxes tor our mock election lost toll. lvlony ot the books in the librory hove been contributed by our Eng- lish closses during Book Week. Pu- pils interested in the librory toke o course in librory proctice. All the members ot the closs spend some time eoch doy in the librory working ot the desk, onswering guestions, ond checking out books. They olso prepore nevv books tor the shelves, ond shelve ond repoir books. The boys in the print shop moke the tickets tor oll school donces ond porties, in oddition to most ot the notices ond blonks thot keep the ottice running smoothly, l reolly don't knovv hovv vve could get olong without this deportment, becouse omong other things our bosketboli seoson tickets, our report cords, oll the progrcim cords, ond ploy pro- groms ore printed here.

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VOVZIQA! 6,E14.S'.YI200fl! 1187141095 us how to make calculations. Of coursel There's the familiar 4x+3x stuff and the shortest dlstance be- tween two points, Many juniors and seniors, however, have delved into the study of the slide rule, the law of sines, and logarithms, lf you don't understand all this, see Mrs. l.ucy Jane l-lenry,, who is showing Dat Sharp and Ralph Bennett how a sim- ple formula may give one a straight line graph, Miss Mary McCord, who shows some solid geometry models to Tony George, Carlyn Bell, and Joan Dufour, Mr. W. W. Chambers, shwn explaining a tough problem to Donald Elbert and Maellen Wright, or Miss Betty l-lall, who attempts to get across a theorem in plane ge- ometry to Carol Pritchett and Bill Nevill l-lowe's future stenographers and typists, as well as those who want just practical business training, find J what they want in the Commercial Department, Mrs. Margaret Rogof- sky explains the mysteries of short- hand to Mary Jane Warriner. Don- ald Stuck and Shirley Diehl practice typing ,under the able direction of Mr. Sherman Pittenger. The art of keeping things straight-filing, in other words, is taught by Miss Ellen Jane- Lafollette. l-lere she helps Pat Slooand Dorothy Yoder with their filing problems. Mr, M. D. Williams is shown below with Betty Aldridge and Gene Cradick in a Junior Busi- ness class, which gives a general introduction to nearly every field of business. These few pages give you an idea of what some of our teachers and pupils do, lf your favorite teacher isn't pictured here, try looking in the clubs, activities, or athletic sec- tions.