Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Artistic Ability Was Shown at Emerson Miss Solich gives her advice to Whitt Cruce, Byron Ayres, and Alex Brown on the construction of a sign for a football game. Millie Kostur and Linda Chalfant sold Christmas projects made by art students. Some students at E.H.S. were given the wonder¬ ful ability to create. The Art Department offered these people an opportunity to develop their talents. Boosting school spirit was a big job for the Art Department. The students spent many long hours drawing and painting the signs that were used at the football games and for pep sessions. During the Christmas season one was quite aware of the work these art classes had done. Along with the decorations for the auditorium, special projects such as Christmas trees, Santa Clauses, and wreaths were made. Throughout the year, art students participated in the making of the posters for Fire Prevention Week and the annual Clean-Up Campaign. 26

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Math Is Important in Everyday Living Jeff Davies and Steve Wetmore work on a complica ted trig identity. Because of the ever-growing need for scientists, mathematics plays an important part in education today. Students who wish to explore the realm of numbers and angles could have taken any of the many math courses offered at Emerson. General math, applied math, and senior math were the basic arithmetic courses. The more interested students took Algebra I. This course dealt mainly with learning how to solve prob¬ lems by using letters and various other symbols in¬ stead of numbers. Those taking Algebra II learned to use determi¬ nants, quadratics, and logarithms in solving prob¬ lems. Tangents, cotangents, sines, and cosines were used in solving identities by. the trigonometry students. Mr. Eivaz explains a tough algebra problem to Paul Mather. TOP TO BOTTOM: Mr. Sargon Eivaz Mrs. Barbara Mitchell Mr. Orrin

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These Girls Are Our Future Homemakers . . . “So—a needle pulling thread; Te—a drink with jam and bread” ... Cooking class gave the girls a chance to learn about nutrition and kitchen management. Starting from scratch, the girls not only learned how to pre¬ pare simple basic dishes but also attractive ways in which to serve them. By the end of the semester, the girls had learned the fundamentals of cooking. The other semester course in homemaking was clothing. In Clothing I, the girls were instructed in hemming, cutting out patterns, making buttonholes, and knowing and using the parts of the machine. Clothing II and advanced clothing prepared the girls to apply the basic skills previously learned. Home nursing, a one-semester course, was offered to instruct girls in first aid treatments and caring for invalids. Maria Marianos, Lynn Ward, and Carolyn Richardson are learning to prepare a new dish. Mrs. Tyler helps Charlice Cline with her sewing project as Sandy Spence hems Alice Wilke’s dress. 27