Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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Girls Learn the Art of Homemaking While Boys Vocational courses are important in the Butler High School curriculum. These courses, including home economics, shop, and agriculture are open to all of the students at B.H.S. Butler High School offers ex- cellent training for the students in all three of these vocations. Under the able supervision of Miss Shady, the home economics instructor the students learn the essentials of good home living and planning. ( ) Assisted by Mr. Sadler, the boys studying under the agriculture program learn new and better methods of farm and livestock care. Mr. Nordenbrock, who heads the shop department of our school, teaches the shop boys various methods of wood- working and mechanical drawing. Through these various vocational fields offered at But- ler High, the students are better prepared for any oc- cupation or career they may choose to enter. ihe i. i” pace: ara — see ae ee, Learning the art of cooking is as important as studying Everyone likes new clothes and a good way to get history. Marletta Ault finds that cooking is fun and them is to make them as Nancy Casebere, Gwen Zies- very interesting. loft, and Mary Peters are doing in Home Ec, THE BUTLER COMPANY 20

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Preparing Business Careers for Tomorrow Clicky clack listen to those typewriters go. Students Shorthand is another business course offered at But- learn to develop speed and accuracy in their type- ler, The students like in typewriting develop speed writing. and accuracy. The basic knowledges, skills, habits, and attitudes for successful living in the business world of today are pro- vided by the general business education. The voca- tional programs assists capable and interested students in preparing for employment in business occupations and for higher education leading toward professional business education. And so it is with those who have chosen to learn the busic fundamentals of the most opportune, challenging, and nerve-racking of voca- tions, Business. The task of molding the business foundation of the students is in the capable hands of Mr. Handy and Mr. Sutter, who teach classes in typing shorthand, office practice, and bookkeeping. They also assist interested students in preparing to take an immediate business position, and to guide those planning for higher educa- tion for the business world. As the Bookkeeping students prepare to start on their practice sets, Mr, Sutter explains what they are to do and w hen they will start. MAST'S MARATHON 19

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Develop Skills in Shop and Agriculture Mr. Nordenbrock helps Larry Walter with his plans for Mr. Nordenbrock demonstrates to Bill Husted and shop as the rest of the class finishes theirs. Lloyd Beard how to use one of the shop machines. : : . 2 Morris Casebere, Harold Wasson, Phil Ault, Bill Larry Dove, Harold Surface, Jim Antrup, and Gerald Souders, George Kaiser, Jim Grimm, Larry Crowl, and Moore look over one of the projects to be sent to the Allen Albert are seen practicing how to tie knots agriculture contest. properly. BUTLER MODERN STORE 21