Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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l i The Building Trades classes have been successful in completing two houses in the past two years which sold for 529,800 and 532500. The houses were sold by Rogers G' jones Realty and Rock Realtors. The Building Trades project began two years ago when the Anderson Board of Realtors said that they would back the project. The project got its mortgages from Anderson Federal Sav- ings and First Savings and Loan As- sociation. The project was formed as, and still remains, a non-profit corpor- ation. An application was required from every student in this class. The stu- dents had to maintain the same start- dards as if they were actually working for a company. Each student spent 25 per cent of his time in the classroom where he practiced on the skills he put to use on location and 75 per cent of his time actually on location. Every student was given the chance to work , on something that interested him. Step-by-step progress began when the site was selected in Southview Ad- j dition on Saddle Lane. The site was then excavated and the foundation poured. The house was constructed. and a buyer was found. 2. rw.. F- f nga. 'N Above: On location, Kevin Banker uses his abilities as a carpenter to check measurements. Left: At the site, Mr. Frances explains to Chip Saddler different ways of sawing boards to make rafters. VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 21

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i i l Above: Discussing the social and cultural aspects of Russia, Mrs. Voorhis points out to Barbara Farmer and Larry Miles an ar- ticle on Soviet life. Right: Latin students Bob Falge, Shawn Dietrich and Peggy Reese present a model of a Roman house and a Christmas scroll to the rest of the class. 22 LANGUAGE ARTS Anderson became the first area high school to offer Russian, the newest ad- dition to the language arts department. Under the instruction of Mrs. Voor- his, Russian students learned the lan- guage by means of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students heard records by native speakers, learned dialogues, saw films and learned about the culture by seeing slides taken by Mrs. Voorhis when she was in the Soviet Union. The introduction of Russian into the language arts department made it the fifth language to be offered. The foreign language department is an important part of the language arts program, commented Mrs. Bridges, department head. Enrollment in the foreign language program was Z8 per cent of the total enrollment meaning around 500 students were taking a foreign language. More stu- dents are enrolled in our foreign lan- guage program than in any of the other high schools. ln other areas of the language arts department, Honors English students read and acted out Shakespearian plays and studied characteristics of the Classical, Medieval, Romantic and Re- naissance periods, Remedial classes concentrated their efforts upon the de- velopment of spelling, vocabulary and sentence structures. tem W l l 4 l 1