Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Talents, skills grow keen in fine and practical arts Busy as bees, Sharon Hawley and Sharon Howlett assure a trim fit by pinning a dress-to-be on a clothing dummy in a home economics class. 26 Odors of freshly-baked cookies and the hum of sewina: machines float from the home economics rooms as pupils learn homemaking skills. Girls studying foods learn that tempting meals ie(|uire careful planning and preparation. Clothing courses stress not only sewing skills, but also the importance of personal grooming. Looking ahea d. Family Living pupils study human relations and life problems. Careers in engineering, architecture, and other skilled trades await industrial arts pupils. Accuracy is the prime requisite for good Avork in mechanical dra ving. Precision is also necessary for successful metal and wood shop projects. Future artists and craftsmen analyze their abilities and strive to perfect their talents in Broad Ripple High School ' s art and music classes. Pupils in general art, ceramics, jewelry, craft art, and photography gain skills which prove invaluable to school groups that enlist their aid. ■ Music-makers use vell-tunecl instruments and trained voices to perform for school and community. The marching band struts at football games, and the orchestra plays from the pit in the new audito- rium. )cal music groups from Chorus I to Madri- gals learn to create melodious harmony.

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Dead bugs are the only good bugs in an insect collection ' Biology teacher Mr William Jessee inspects collections of Don Hamilton, Mem Mueller, and Astra Rozite. display progressive spirit in math, science, business Progress is the most important product of far- sighted planning- on the part of the Mathematics, Science, and Business Education Departments. Two experimental freshman algebra classes, whic li incorporate the fundamentals of modern mathenia ' - ics, typify strides being made to keep the Math JDe- partment tuned with the times. Ripple offers the state maximiun of 12 courses from elementary alge- bra to analytical college studies. New theories are subject to testing in the sci- entific field in an experimental chemistry class. Frogs and formulas, plains and problems make up the science courses, biology, pliysical scienie, cliemistry, and physics. Fulfilling a conununity need by iiaining young men and women h)r the business woild, the Business Department uses up-to-date methods and e(|uipment. Typing, shorthand, and nine otlier sul))ects prepaie pupils for part-time jobs and life careers. Scientific curiosity motivates second-year Science Seminar par- ticipants Jim Bishop, Milton Bird, Fred Kantner, and Carole Henley, who are examining the periodic chart of the elements. Not pic- tured is Jim Larsen.

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Delighted families receive industrial arts projects such as Tim Stanfill ' s king-size jewelry box. Light, camera, and attention focus on the subject of photography pupils Susannah Fitch and Don Dawson Concentration marks the faces of John Fattic and Jeff Endicott as they operate an electric saw. Departure time is near for Choir members preparing to leave for a program. Packing the car for the trip are Gary Hoile, Pat Hogan, Scotta Flaningam. Ed Comfort, Brandt Downey, and Use Bried.