Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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table of contents: Activities page 26 Athletics page 46 Album page 64 Advertising page 1 1 2 This is our Manual— year 1963! Through this year we learned by experience, as we have in all our high school years. Our teachers and friends, textbooks, paperbacks, and library books offer a helping hand, a boost, sometimes even a shove in the risdit direction. The question is Which direction is right? This is our manual for Redskins— our guidebook for four years of growth. fat 1RecU6c t4 £1

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7Ka(tGC4l 01 eaxrtwy Emmerich Manual High School ' s well-planned curriculum gives all Redskins a manual of learning. Courses of study leading to an academic diploma prepare us for entrance requirements for any col- lege in the country. Other pro- grams fill our needs for varied vo- cations and industries, and for homemaking. Space-age automation and ex- pansion hit Manual in 1962-63. From the beginning of the school year, the complicated clerical work, necessary in a school of some 2,200. was handled by an IBM machine located at the School Board Of- fice. Pupils had numbers as well as names, and machine-processed schedules and report cards. But the IBM machine and the new building addition, which add- ed 1 1 classrooms, weren ' t the only evidences of change apparent at Manual as the result of a nation- wide surge in emphasis on educa- tion and new scientific methods of teaching. Indicative of the in- creased interest in academics was the more than 200 seniors enrolled in senior lit. just five years ago there were 20. Freshmen boned up on basic grammar in their English classes, and at the same time practiced reading skills in the reading lab during freshman orientation. Sophomores were introduced to Shakespeare through Julius Caesar. Two English 5g classes studying journalism wrote and produced the annual Ivian kick-off campaign with The Steve Gallen Show. Their efforts were rewarded when the real star, Steve Allen himself, mentioned the show on his night- time TV program. Booming interest in foreign lan- guage made it necessary for the Language section of the English Department to form a department of its own. Work in the language lab was concentrated for Spanish and French students in their first and second year. Advanced pupils of the modern languages, while still using the lab, were introduced to more composition and to literature through European classics. A grammar base their first two years prepared Latin students for Caesar in their third year and Vir- gil, their fourth. Manualites were more concerned than ever with what was °oingr on in their world in 1963. Interna- tional Relations, an elective senior course in the Social Studies De- partment, boasted a class of 35 the spring semester. Areas of the world were studied in depth for their cul- tural, economic, and political sys- tems. Miss Ann Williamson, ex- change teacher from Scotland, brought a new viewpoint to her United States and world history classes. Disecting earthworms, deter- mining sound frequency, and tit- rating ammonia and hydrochloric acid were a few of the things Man- ual scientists did in 1963. Biology classes started the largest number of students ever on their way to the state-required two years of science. Semi-micro chemistry equipment, introduced to Manual last year as an experiment, was installed in all chemistry labs; but the old apparatus was retained for demonstrations. Earth Science, a course in astronomy and related subjects, was new. Five Manualites participated in the Indianapolis Science Seminar Saturday morning program. They heard lectures by community scientists and received counseling on individual projects. The Math section also boasted a new course, and for the first time it became possible for a stu- dent to earn 1 1 credits in mathe- matics. Two plane geometry classes of math majors experimented by incorporating solid geometry. The print shop ' s increasing four times in size and auto shop ' s doub-