Carmel High School - Pinnacle Yearbook (Carmel, IN)

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We Gave Speeches . . . Drove . . . Janet Roblee gives dra- matic interpretation in one of the beginning speech classes. Eddie Hill, Carolyn Floyd, and Bill Waller participate in drama contest. The Carmel Speech Department is a popular one with students. The aims of the beginning speech classes are to help the students overcome their fears and embarrassment when they speak in front of the class. In these classes they learn to speak freely with poise and grace. They find that even after they have completed their speech course, they profit by their new speaking abilities. In their other classes they are able to speak confidently and without fear. Another point beginning speech students learn is that adequate preparation is vital for any oral class recitation. In advanced speech courses the stu- dents have an opportunity to develop further their speaking abilities by study- ing dramatics and forensics. It is easy to see why Mrs. Kesselem and Mrs. Ackerson, our speech teachers, play such an important part in a Carmel student ' s high school career. Mr. Huffer, who is Driver Education instructor, laughs at the puzzled looks of Dick Murphy, John Truesdel, Jeff Morton, and John Mohr when he realizes they don ' t know as much about a car motor as his girl students do. Carmel High School offers Driver ' s Training to all stu- dents. These girls are learning to handle a car carefully and safely.

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Country and the Rest of the World Gary Jaeger, Larry Diersing, and Jim Dean are standing around Becky Kapust who is showing them that Sociology can be fun if you look for the right materials in the right places. Mike Mahnensmith, Diane Harrison, Cay Correll, and Amelia Hesterburg look on while Fred Cook points to Africa which is one of the trouble spots of the world today. One of the Senior classes seems to enjoy Mr. Sharp ' s interesting lecture on the various phases of our United States Government, a required course for twelfth graders.

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And We Played Some Too Don Wood, Johnny Marsh, and Taylor Wilson exhibit their strength while doing push-ups. Barbara West and Dallana Page thoughtfully study the parts from the model of the human torso as they remove them. An important part of a high school education is spent in the student ' s Health and Safety classes and Physical education classes. He has learned how to maintain a healthy body and in the future he may utilize his knowledge while raising a family. In his physical education classes he was taught funda- mentals of sports, rules of games, sportsmanship, and he was able to build up his body physically. His goal was to achieve the summit of good living. In the years of 1959 and 1960, there were 130 girls enrolled in Mrs. Verplank ' s and Miss Williamson ' s physical education classes, 60 of which were Freshmen, 65 Soph- omores, and 5 assistants. Mr. Shepherd ' s physical education classes had 124 boys enrolled. Approximately 62 were Freshmen and 62 were Sophomores. The girls ' Health and Safety classes consisted of 62 students: 57 Freshmen, 1 sophomore, Uunior and 3 Seniors. Meanwhile, the boys ' classes had 89 enrolled. There were 75 Freshmen, 7 Sophomores, 6 Juniors and 1 Senior. The girls ' activities in their physical education classes were: calisthenics, kickball, and basketball, and the boys ' were: touch football, cross country, basketball, dodge ball, and calisthenics. Both the boys ' and girls ' Health and Safety Classes studied the different systems of the body. As Diane Haston and Wanda Smith study the chart ex- plaining the doll representing the human body, Connie Hughey looks at the doll.