Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Upper southwest was A prospective mortician, DE student Steve Dear- duff, keeps busy at Keplinger ' s. Totaling cash payments, one of many duties in bookkeeping, is made easy for Jody Towns on the new electric adding machines which make mistakes nil. Practice makes perfect as advanced typing students Dave Sluder, Debbie Christman, Karen Koger, and Vincent Barrington peck away on class assignments. 58

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T-squares and triangles, replaced by drafting machines, make class icork easier and less complicated for Mike Dawson. Printing programs for school organizations keeps the presses busy as Craig Sipe, Andy Medler, Larry Mannix illustrate. Confidence breeds results as John Flynn plugs the right hole and Gary Brenner sees the light in electronics lab. MR. FRED HARTZELL, B.S.. M.A.: General Shop, Graphic Arts, Photography. Industrial Arts Department Chairman. MR. ROBERT DEARBORN, B.Ed.: T ' oodworking. Power and Transportation; Assistant Football Coach. MR. JESS HUGGINS, B.S.: Electricity. Gen- eral Shop. X oods. MR. ERROL WASH- BURN. B.S.. M.A.: Drafting. Metals; Intra- mural Basketball Sponsor.

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sdiool ' s most businesslike corner A voice from within, ivhich is known by business machine students as coming from transcribing machines, dictates silently to Alice Begley and Kim Fenrod while typing. Advanwd bfxAkwping, businaM ma- chines, DE and personal typing were the new courses introduced into the Business Department for the first time in Blackford County. Eight teachers, two of whom were new to the school system, carried out the job of showing students how to use the new equipment which included ten key and full keyboard adding machines, printing calculators, rotary calculators, and an offset press. The Business Department rooms were not completed until January- and were located in the southwest comer of the second floor. All equipment was set up before moving into the rooms except for the offset press, which was too large to set up for permanent use. Lawyers, insurance agents, resource people, and DE coordinators were among the year ' s guest speakers. MR. THOMAS G. HALE, B.S., M.S.: Bookkeeping, COE, Business Department Chairman. MRS. MILDRED G. De- WEERD, A.B., M.S.: Typing, Clerical Of- fice Practice. MRS. CLAUDIA GOODNIGHT, B.S.: Typing, General Business: Pep-Block Co- Sponsor. MRS. EVELYN LOBSIGER. B.S.: General Business, DE; DE Club Sponsor. MISS GRETCHEN MECKLENBURG, B.S., M.A.: Business Law; Senior Class Co- Sponsor, Tri-Hi-Y Co-Sponsor. MRS. HA- ZEL REDDEN, A.B., M.A.: Shorthand, Business Machines, Exploratory Teaching; FT A Sponsor. MR. KENNETH E. ROSS. BS., MA.: Typ- ing: Junior Class Co-Sponsor. Concession Manager. MRS. IRENE M. SPRINGER. B.S. : Bookkeeping, General Business. Hot off the offset press are Ton copies for business class. Sutton ' s dittoed