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

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' Home Ec ' Provides Homemaking Skills For professional or Euture homemaking use, Man- ual girls acquire knowledge in clothing, foods, home- making, family living and home management, and home musing horn the Home Economic s Depart- ment. Clothing 1-4 includes a study of fabrics and fa- shion designs. The girls learn many sewing tech- niques which vary from basic construction of blous- es and skirts to professional tailoring. Sewing ex- perts from McCall and Simplicity pattern compa- nies were guests of the clothing classes. They dis- cussed colors, lines, and designs in fashions. In Foods 1-4 girls are taught to preserve foods and prepare breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and gourmet foods. One class served a Hawaiian Luau and entertained Mrs. Mary Jay, a former Manual Home Economics teacher who, in turn, told the class about some of the fine foods she had encountered in England where she has lived the past year. Manual boys also fit into Home Ec as Boys ' Foods lets them in on what happens in the kitchen, and some become quite proficient. Culminating the events of the year is the annual June style show, a part of the Projects Fair. Stu- dents from each grade level model their best crea- tions from their year of hard work. Peggy Daughtery, Clothing 4, finds she has sewed a fine sear as she checks stitching on the garment she is making. 1 1 ' , 1 -, r 1 Eddie Arnold readies a sheet of Christmas cookies for the oven, as Darryll Morton mixes another batch of dough. Terri Oliver and Connie Mercer, Sen- ior Home-Nursing students, tryout some of the finer points of a class unit involving preparation of a bed for the sick room. They also receive practice in making a bed with a pa- tient in it, giving a bed-bath, and feeding a bed-fast person.

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Business N EcT Fits Us For Future Careers A business education at Manual provides an all around knowledge of several business fields. Besides offering general instruction in Shorthand, Bookkeep- ing, Filing, and related skills, the Department also offers further study in Business Law, Economic Geo- graphy, Salesmanship, Machine Calculation, and Da- ta Processing. Stenography, Bookkeeping, Manage- ment, and Data Processing are the four major areas which prepare students for business careers. The office Training Class simulates an office situ- ation by allowing pupils to perform business func- tions in an office setup. Typing and Secretarial Prac- tice Classes develop the ability of the typist to type what he hears by using transcribing machines. An integral part in the instruction is the Typing Skill Builder. This machine develops accuracy by con- trolling typing speed. At each six-week grading period qualified stu- dents are awarded Master, Intermediate, and Pri- mary certificates for achievement in Shorthand and Typing. Students typing 60 words a minute with a minimum of errors receive gold pins. Transcribing material in limited time with 95 percent accuracy is the requirement for Shorthand awards. Knowing that experience is the best teacher, Linda Manning and Donna Fitzgibbons practice the techniques of filing. Sandy Christy checks instructions in her Lab manual before typing a business letter, an area studied in Typing I. Increasing tabulating speed is the goal of Machine Calculation students as they practice transcribing numbers. 23

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Shop ' Schools ' for Practical, Industrial Jobs Preparing Manualites for immediate jobs upon graduation and providing the basic education for further specialization in engineering, architecture, and other fields is the Industrial Arts Department. Four types of shops — wood, metal, electric, and machine — provide the background necessary for further specialization, giving the students work with individual projects and more complicated problems. Auto Shop pupils study the workings of trans- missions, the repair of automotive electrical sys- tems and accessories, and the functions of the auto- motive engine. Students also do actual work on their own cars and those of teachers. Pupils in Print Shop study the fundamentals of the correct type faces for various purposes. They set copy and print on job presses, serving the school by printing forms, tickets, and posters. They also duplicate by the silk-screen process. Mechanical Drawing, one-half credit, develops skills and techniques needed for entrance into the drafting field. Architectural dr awing covers land- scaping and the technology in building procedures. Leo Brown verifies information in his textbook as he constructs a three-view mechanical drawing in his advanced class. Mr. Cecil Sanders, Wood Shop instructor, checks measurements Donnie Garner and Neil Kent have made for a class problem. Bill Campbell, Mike Meyer, John Richter, and Jim Bevers silk screen arm bands for the Class of ' 67 ' s Senior Day. Overhauling an engine is the task of Mike Nichols, Steve Nuckles, Gary Patterson, and Jerry Durham in Auto Shop. 25