Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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Agriculture Home Economics Industrial Arts Vocational courses are important in our high school curriculum. Classes in agri- culture, shop, and home economics are offered to all high school students. The agriculture boys, under the guidance of Mr. Sadler, plant experimental plots of corn and soybeans. They are concerned about fertilization and varieties. Along this same line they learn the better ways of livestock care. Mr. Smith teaches the shop boys useful methods of woodworking and mechanical drawing. A new jig -saw and several new benches have been added to the shop. The shop has been remodeled to include a new finish room. Miss Metz, supervisor of home economics, directs the girls in better home practices, family relations, and home nursing, and shows all home ec girls to sew well and to prepare nourishing meals. Miss Metz, home economics supervisor is demonstrating the department's new mixer to her students. She also teaches biology and co-sponsors the Sophomore class and FHA. Francis Hullinger, Dianne Peachy, Gloria Moreno, and Tillie Miller are working on one of their projects in home economics.

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Butler students learn the basic skills in both reading and speaking, and to correlate good reading, good listening, and good speaking. Mrs. I-lampel, Mr. Reed, Miss Felter, Miss Marshall, and Mr. Shepherd place particular stress on accuracy and comprehension in reading, vocabulary correctness and logical arrangement in writing. They emphasize the responsibilities which freedom of speech and the press place upon speaker, writer, listener and reader. Butlerites develop ease, self-confidence, and skill in practical speech activities. We review the principles of good grammar and leam to form clear, concise, correct sentences. We develop skill in selecting and using ref- erence books, magazines,and newspapers. We find a permanent interest in good books and develop the habit of reading all printed material critically and appreciatively. Butler's Latin classes stress the elements in latin vocabulary which are contributary to the English language. Students leam to appreciate the historical and cultural significance of the , Roman civilization. They also develop habits and techniques useful in further study of any foreign language. Mr. Shepherd is using the card catalog to find an elusive book. He supervises the library, teaches typing and English, and co-sponsors the Breeze and Sophomore Class. Miss Marshall, Butler's Latin instructor, Catch those errors, kids, is the familiar cry of Miss Felter waits expectantly for an answer from to her journalism students. Jon Jones, Carolyn Getts, and one of her first year latin students. She Sharon Church are proofreading the Breeze. teaches two Latin classes each morning, and is Butler's only part-time teacher. 13

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Mr. Smith, industrial arts supervisor, is demonstrating the correct way to use drafting equipment. He also teaches liighthgradehealth and safety and co-sponsors the Junior Class. Mr. Sadler, agricultural instructor, is sifting through samples of his students' crops from the Butler School Ex- perimental Farm. He sponsors the FFA, the annual, the Camera Club and co-sponsors the Senior Class. Harold Baxter, Cloyce Baxter, Jim Lane, Victor Sholl, and Darvin Lechleidner study diligently in Mr. Sadler's sophomore agriculture class. These students are studying soils and crops. Connie Sue McDonald, Mr. Smith's studentssecretary watches Ray Holt, a senior, work a drafting problem. t sm!!