East High School - Echoes Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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'ji . 2 ff Vocational Education Gives Job Training 3 t 'f 1 I .. L, 5 -Q X 'li if I ,.. i 11 gg 4 if 3 2 . , Paul Bridges Charles Varner Don Gooden R. L. Grandle George Cougher L. C. Bork George Duerksen john Turner Directing some 23 teachers and 1145 students who spend from one to,fou.r hours a day in class is the job of Mr. Harry W. McKimmy, supervisor of voca- tional and industrial education at East. Vocational courses are designed to pre- pare a student for a job, while industrial arts classes are taught for general edu- cation, Vocational shop courses include the automotive trades, electricity, machine shop practice, printing, sheetmetal work- ing, trade drafting, welding, woodworking, industrial physics, and vocational mathe- matics. MAKING TRACINGS of pieces of machinery prior to making the original blueprint is an assignment of Mike Nichols, '58, in his trade-drafting class. MAKING BLUEPRINTS on a blueprint ma- chine is just one of the routine jobs, Steve Thompson, '58, has to do in the trade draft- ing class in room 711. With President Eisenhower's recent emphasis on the need for more science, it is interesting to note that avocational major is required to take physics and an extra year of mathematics. To supplement their vocational shop courses, seniors who qualify are placed on jobs by the co-op employment service. Industrial arts offers, on a one hour basis, driver education, general metals, and auto information in addition to the courses in the vocational section, .. john Jarvis John Edmiston Roy Matthews james Ruberson james Wene W. H. johnson L. V. Logan . . . IW. ' if NH! Ioe De Spain Marvin Beery 21

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Physical Education Develops Fair Play 9 I .a.a - fs ian- . za- E' Q t A ,:, , , 3,2 N if , g N.:. 4 ' f fg q ' 5, l DFr2.nk Herlllflel d Bob Timm0r1S Clifford Sickles Don Wright Bob Shepler James Barger ep artment ea READY, BEGIN - Hup 2! Hip 41 shouts Coach Don Wright during the side straddle hop, one of the many exercises practiced by the boy's gym classes. Six instructors head the girls Physical Education Department. Nine hundred girls are enrolled in classes .being taught the skills of various sports, the development of good co-ordination, and directing the mind and body of the maturing high school mind. Approximately 1200 boys are enrolled in Physical Education under the direction of six instructors. The aim of this department is to develop through the gym classes and in the rugged competitive sports program a sense of fair play, to develop a clean mind as well as body, to provide activities for increased leisure time, and to help boys find their places in society. HOME- MADE GAME . , . A little of basketball, soccer, foot- ball, and volleyball is being played by Miss june Morell's gym class. D ,tll t gtyy g p by p , I l l if ' l A , '-1,. a , - , at i Helen Kennedy June Morell Margaret Edwards Rosella Towson Beverly Pepper Leola Mull Department Head

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Teachers are Human EVEN TEACHERS ENJOY A GOOD LAUGH, illustrates Mr. S. F. Parzybok, East attendance counselor, as he takes a coffee break with Miss Beverly Pep- per and Miss June Morell, physical edu- cation teachers, in the teachers cafeteria. 'ONE BAG OF POPCORN PLEASE, says Miss Julia Emery, head of the Social Sci- ence department, as she chats with Dick Mullin, 'S 8, sixth hour popcorn vendor. RJUST ONE MORE WONVI' HURT ME, decides Mr. William Harrison, English instructor, Las he stocks up on candy bars while Cy Sickles, basketball coach, contents himself with a cup of coffee as he reads the sports page in the Faculty Men's Lounge.