Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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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!!

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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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s E ABOVE: Mrs. Buenerkemper, illustrates a lesson to her biology class. She also teaches girls phys. ed. and co-sponsors the Freshman class and GAA. ABOVE RIGHT: Mr. Bock waits patiently for one of his driver's training students. He also teaches health, and co-sponsors the Junior class. Butlerites Experiment with Under the able guidance of Mr. Van Zuilen, Mr. Bock, Mrs. Buenerkemper, and Miss Metz, the science department in Butler High School has progressed rapidly. Early emphasis is placed on health in the seventh grade and general science in the eighth. Moving on to high school they encounter biology in their freshman year and the mysteries of plants and Suzie Smith, Freshman, is explaining photosynthesis and plant structure to one of her classmates, Ron Fisher, in Freshman biology. animal life. The sophomores review rules of health and safety, and go on to broader fields, especially stressing mental health. The junior and senior classes plunge into the science of motion, matter, and energy in their physics and chemistry class with all the enthusiasm of a teenager eager for knowledge. Rog Walter and Phil Cinder, Juniors, show off their new skill in weights and measures by working a specific gravity problem for Senior, John Durst.