Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Dave Darling, student director, a part of music education. Arts: Useful and Satisfying In Band, Orchestra which meet each day, musicians learn to play, to interpret, to appreciate. Even though our program has many practical courses, the arts are not neglected. The art workshop offers us every type of artistic training from the practical to creative, and in using all media. Homemaking is a wonderful career: it has many rewards and pleasures. Our Elkhart High School homemaking department reflects the many activities of a real home: planning menus, balancing budgets, making and repairing clothes, caring for children, and the study of family relationships. In Printing Art we practice neatness and exactness. We gain first-hand experience working in the homemaking kitchen. 27

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In Modern Literature, Shirley Boots reports on a magazine. Special Courses Help Us In order to help Johnny read, our school offers three types of reading courses: one for non-readers, one for slow readers, and one for those who want to read faster with keener comprehension. Reading pacers and speed films are part of the modern approved equip- ment used in Developmental Reading classes. Another English course is Modern Literature, a two-semester course offered as an elective in the senior year. In class we read and discuss magazines, short stories, plays, biographies, and the newspaper. The course is designed for leisure time reading, listening, and seeing, in adult life. HE ■pSfciiis ' iiR 4J DVH We improve our reading ability in speeial reading class. Using pacers in Developmental Reading class, we increase our reading rate. 26

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Billv Room- operates a milling machine, in Vocational Machine Shop. The actual building of a five- room house was the work of the Building Trades class this year. The boys had units in masonry, wall construction, roofing, finishing and plastering. Wired with the help of the electricity class, the house was ready for exhibition in May. When the house was the hornemaking ( s planned the decorating scheme. This EHS project made front page news. Bo} put exterior trim on the house constructed in ftuildine Trades. We Learn a Trade Because EHS offers such a wide variety of vocational courses, boys are able to graduate from our high school with exten- sive training for their chosen occupa- tions. In Electricity 10 we learn elec- trical theory, study electrical diagramming, and plan a few practical circuits on paper. In Vocational Machine Shop, a three-hour course, we learn basic fundamentals one hour, and work in the machine shop the remaining two hours. In Auto Mechanics 10, we study fundamentals, main parts of the automobile frame, hand tools, and the internal combustion engine. 28