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

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Karen MaJott, Mike Jones, Elizabeth Sills. and Amy Carpenter ate busy studying their bookkeeping in Mr. Lori ' s 5th period class. Typing is a skill that people can always use no matter what field they ' re in. David Randolph improves his typing skill in Intensive Lab. Business Mrs. Mildred DeWeerd — Typing. Mrs. Elizabeth Garritson — General Business, Distributive Education. Mrs. Claudia Goodnight — Short- hand, Intensive Lab. Mr. Thomas Hale — Business De- partment Chairman, Typing, bookkeeping. Mr. Charles Lori — General Busi- ness, Bookkeeping. Mr. Ross Myers — General Busi- ness, Recordkeeping, Business Law. Mrs. Hazel Redden — Business Ma- chines, Office Practice, Typing. Mr. Kenneth Ross — Typing I. Calculators are useful instruments in ac- counting classes. Annette Williams and Barry Huffman team up to finish their home- work. 104 Business

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Penny Clamme throws a pot on the potter ' s wheel. Many hours of work are required to gain the skill needed to work on the wheel. Jane Spencer — Ceramics, Art Sur- vey, Drawing Painting. John Adams — Graphics, Ceramics, Advanced Ceramics, Drawing Painting, Sculpture, Art Survey. Marlene Roth — Art Survey, Ce- ramics, Advanced Ceramics, Tex- tiles. Creating an education Creating! Art classes supply the material and training needed for the students to initiate their creative ideas. Art Survey is required before a student can take other art classes. In Art Survey students learn the basics for each art class given. This makes it easier to decide in which area they would enjoy studying further. Experimenting is a part of art. Students must experiment at one Sean O ' Connell works on his painting in his fifth hour Drawing and Painting class. Many different techniques are used in this art class. time or another. Sometimes experi- ments lead to starting over, but oth- er times it leads to an original art piece. Art provides many ways for the students to express their ideas while creating, learning, and enjoying, one important part of their school cur- riculum. The ability to appreciate beauty and creativity will reward students all their lives. Art 103

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Intensive Lab provides a stimulated office procedure to teach students the real world of work Lisha Adkins learns to use a copy ma- chine. Diane Montgomery checks her answers with the aid of a pocket calculator in Advanced Bookkeeping. Pocket calculators have be- come an inexpensive learning tool. Business skills aid future The main purpose in taking a busi- ness class is to gain skills for use in the world of work, or for education in special areas of business. When talking in her business classes about finding jobs, Mrs. Clau- dia Goodnight tries to emphasize that the person who leaves no stone unturned will usually find a good job. There are several business classes to choose from. Typing classes are usually most popular. Typing is probably the most widely used of all business skills, because whatever course of study or work a student plans to follow, typing can be used in one way or another. Skill classes such as shorthand are fun to teach according to Mrs. Good- night. Shorthand students can see their program each day. Business classes are one step to- wards reaching our goals ' in a field of our own. ' Business 105