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

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Above, Mrs. Blanche Rusron helps her pupils Sandy Harper and Judy Griffin set a formal table for faculty luncheon guests. Be- low, Patty Vincent and Cheryl Thompson serve brunch to teach- ers. These meals are special activities of Advanced Foods. Practice Makes Perfect For Girls in v Home Ec ' Hundreds of girls prepare for homemaking by taking courses in Home Economics. Whether plan- ning to become housewives or college students, girls find Home Ec beneficial as well as fun. Freshmen girls who take Social Practice, a course featuring proper etiquette and good groom- ing, find it helpful for their first year of high school. Clothing classes, also a big help to many girls, not only prove economically beneficial after high school, but they also help the girls add variety to i heir present wardrobes which are so important to i hem. Clothing classes may be taken at every level, plus a special senior class. Other girls find Foods classes helpful because they learn how to fix well-balanced meals and keep a steady diet, which is always a problem for teenagers. They also learn how to serve correctly, and they get experience by entertaining teachers with partified meals in their dining room. Senior girls are required to take Home Nursing, which teaches a wide variety of nursing cares. They learn first aid, care of hed patients in the home, and facts about mental illness, other di- seases, and pregnancy. Speakers talked on subjects sue h as drugs, health careers, and quackery. family Living and Home Management balance out the Home Economics curriculum. Students delve into decorating and study money management. Mrs. Jean Bacus ' s Clothing I Class is taking a two-part semester final exam. The girls in the background are taking the written exam, while those in front are using the sewing machines for the second part.

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Biology students learn to graph results of scientific experiments. Here Debbie Church is playing a game of reverse coordination via a mirror. She will graph the results. Physics students prove their theories with experiments. Here Ron Miller and Jeff Meade, under the guidance of Mr. Steve Sharpee, calculate the acceleration of gravity. A. U . • •. Juniors |an Parsley and Scarlette Har- den do an extra-credit lab in their Chemistry class. |an and Scarlette are members of Mr. Don Hannon ' s experimental Chemistry cla s, which puts much emphasis on lab work. 27

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Many Business Students Type for Careers The Business Department, headed hy Mrs. Char- lotte Camfield, prepart s Manualites for a future in the business world through its many eourses. General Business is mainly a freshman course that gives a background in business processes, while Business Law teaches the legal aspects. Students in Machine Calculation and Data Pro- cessing gain practical knowledge through the use of computers, punch cards, and calculaters. Filing and Secretarial Practice offer girls training in office procedures, and Business Arithmetic and Bookkeeping teach accounting and math skills, use- ful in homemaking as well as business. Salesmanship, a two-semester course for juniors and seniors, teaches about merchandising, adver- tising, and retail selling for many job fields. The most popular courses in the Business De- partment are Typing 1-4. In Typing 1, Redskins learn the basic keyboard, while in Typing 2-4 pup- ils work to increase speed and skill. Two years of Shorthand are also offered. Consumer Education and Economic Geography round out the business courses. They present the relations of man to the economic and physical aspects of his environment. Senior Beatrice Morris pauses while she studies a problem that she is trying to work in her Machine Cal Class. Students in this class develop skills in operating calculators. Junior lolert.i Strait runs off extra copies of tests on the mimeo- graph machine in a business classroom. Joletta performs many such duties as student assistant to Mrs. Alma Rush. Mrs. Phyllis Sullivan, business teacher, supervises the work of lassandra Smith, Edna Reid, and Beverly Sherrod as they tabu- ate in their Machine Calculations Class. 29