Benjamin Bosse High School - Legacy / Spirit Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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OUR FUTURE auto mechanics, draftsmen, machinists, Woodworkers and printers learned many valuable things in the industrial arts department. The department was divided into four main classes, general shop, metal shop, mechanical drawing and print shop. In our freshman year, we took General Shop I and Il and worked with wood. Mechanical drawing was also offered to us as freshmen. WE COULD TAKE four semesters ol mechanical drawing. In these four terms, we worked on machine drafting from ani assigned book. li we de- sired we could ao on into the most advanced pnase of the flrawirg field, architectural drawing. The boys who wanted to be printers were offered a very thorough course in the printing classes. The first semester we learned to set type by hand. Later there were presses to run and the more advanced students set up pages for the SCHOOL SPIRIT. SETTING UP Tl-IE SPIRIT wasn't the only job ot the advanced printers. They also were given the job of printing the football and basketball pro- grams, tickets for the plays and talent shows and posters used around Bosse. Another shop that the school offered was work in metal, including auto mechanics, bench work, welding, forging and machine work. Some of the more industrious boys worked on their old jalopies during this period, a job which always seemed to require the services of the entire class. Two other shops, blue print reading and electricity, were also available to us. In blue print reading we learned the basic principles of how to read a construction man's guide, while in electricity we built radios, motors and other such complicated electrical devices. 'S . Smart Fashions. . . . :'.:1-f:.- ...Moderately Priced i if ' ht if ti .st . ,t ft- t E i 5.325 T .ri i' , Q 2 :J Q It 1. it . gigs Q x , WS? Q P ix ' Q 53? iii, Y he if XE'-XS? :: ,Ji ' I 1 ' Owner r ' -' ' H59 -LOIS SCHAEFER- ' .. ' -fad' Fashion Shop 2415 Washington Avenue Telephone 2-6482 Evansville, Indiana Sawdust, Ink, Jalopies Were Familiar Sights ln Industrial Classes Slucfeuii -- AN IMPORTANT DECISION MUST MADE FOR awr4u.!wre FURTHER YOUR EDUCATION IF POS SIBLE SECURE EMPLOYMENT WHERE OP PORTUNITY PREVAILS The first decision we most heartily recommend The second, we can help you secure employment REGISTER AT ONCE THERE IS NO FEE UNLESS WE PLACE YOU NAIIUN WIUE EMPLIIYMENI SEHVIIIE 611 Court Bldg Phone 3 3165 Member National Employment Board BE I. - 2. - where you can be successful in your chosen field.

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TO THOSE ot us who were art en- thusiasts, the art department lur- nished a perfect background for our talents. While we spent much ot our time drawing abstract designs, we spent more time trying to explain to others just what we were expresing in our so-called modern art. .Under the guidance of Merrill Snethen, we also dabbled in poster making-adveh tising our plays, proms and talent TEVUES. We learned to make bracelets, baskets and to paint pottery, di- rected by Mrs. Katherine Bishop, handicraft instructor. Thus, whether we were to be art maiors or were just dabbling, we obtained another memory that will remain long after graduation. Gym Kept: Us on the Ball AS A CHANGE in our school day, most ot us looked forward to gym class. The Physical Education Department. as it was formally referred to, was under the guidance of Phillip Bevarly. Assisting him in the boys' classes were Gus Banko, Iimmy Graham, Herman Keller, Harry King and Max Smith, During our last year, Mrs. Clara Diers and Miss Ethel Parks were the girls' gym teachers, but only the girls that were gym leaders took gym in their senior year. As underclassmen, the girls' instructors were Miss Katherine Wills, Miss Doris Kirk, Mrs. Betty lane Elmendorf and Mrs. Marie DeWeese. BUT PHYS, ED wasn't always physical. ln our junior year, we found that Health and Safety could olten be a mental strain. The driving classes, instructed by Harry King, were exciting as well as educational. The boys in their gym classes, after a warmup ot calisthenics and marching, played foot- ball, basketball, volleyball and baseball. Also crammed into the crowded schedule was tumbling, boxing, wrestling and running track. The girls' schedule included soccer, volleyball, basketball, badminton and baseball. Some played ping-pong while others tumbled. ln our last year, square dancing and social dancing were also added to the schedule. Would-Be Artists Dabbled in Pen, Paints, Pencil 7116 - MASTER PORTRAITS 209 LOCUST STREET E- EVANSVILLE 9, INDIANA TELEPHONE 2-7252 PAINTS - WALLPAPER Glass - DeVilbiss Spray Equipment Unfinished Furniture - Ladders - PACEMAKER IN PAINTS - 'C' G Ll D D E N Paint Service Center SENIUR CLASS We'll see you at TH E TOWERS DRIVE-IN 2901 LINCOLN 10-16 Main Street Telephone 3-4471 Evansville, Indiana 5.

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Business Courses Helped To Train Future Clerks, Secretaries, Salesmen C ut Flowers and Corsages llFllE5llNllClIftDllNIl'fS llfxllk-JfDX'h7llEsllRS 1245 S. Weinhach Phone 3-4345 THE JOAN SHOP Your Favorite SHOES FOR SPORT OR DRESS WILL ALWAYS BE AT 1' A? fl Q. FT i I FUTURE SECRETARIES, clerks and other business-minded students were those who took a commercial course during our four years at Bosse. During the first year, a general study of business showed us the necessity of neatness and accuracy. As sophomores we patiently added long columns of figures and checked accounts for bookkeeping., Keeping our attention directed elsewhere than the keys of our type- writers in typing clas was also a problem. The desired accuracy and speed on our ten minute tests at first seemed impossible, but improvement and typing ease soon came to us. As juniors we began four semesters ot shorthand which in the beginning was like a foreign language. Eventually shorthand graduated into tran- scription in our senior year. With the fourth year of high school, our curriculum varied and we could choose secretarial training, clerical practice or selling, according to the field which we planned to enter. Interviews with local businessmen were also cr part of the commercial training which gave us necessary experience for future occupations. BEST WISHES E ' 7 ' Ayokf 5 Alf . X X -f SENIORS! vs X Q, From The New and Bigger A. I-I. Davis Grocery . ,, 'D y A mi.-':f':r....:.: .r:: A , I Across From Bossa On Washington. 0 ,Au 10096 WOOL CABQSOYQNES Offers --If SUITS at TOPCOATS As Smart As a Hollywood qligeind High School Senior Hinged was 8 LATIONS HATS and FURNISHINGS sms 28 'D 40 and .s g at ' THE sH B BEST W1SHEb C O M B S HENRYZ GY PRO? to the I 421-4:9 num srnesv N 223 MAIN STREET SENIQRS SHOE COMPANY, g INC. ' 33355352 IONE,S STUDIO oil THE DANCE SPORTSWEAB Dances Of All Kinds 23 N. w. 4ui Plume 2-75:35 219 MAIN Io-B s. E. 3rd street Evansville, Indiana t ln '1