Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Preparing recipes in foods class are freshman Diane Griffin and sophomore Sharon Leonard. Annual Gym Show, Spring Fashion Tom Hanna hands Judd Pease a chisel to be used on his project in the junior high wood shop. Marilyn Zackiewicz, junior, uses the sewing machine on a blouse to employ skills she has learned in the high school sewing class.

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Steve Johnson, Jerry De Boer, Wayne Hepp, Don Gordon and Dennis Werner practice for the spring concert while Jim Roper accompanies them Various Music Classes Develop Basic Choral Skills Listening to a jazz record are Margaret Gardner, John G roe sc he and Rich Hochman Through the various music classes and choruses students developed basic music skills. Students studied voice, production of vocal sound, diction, enunciation and foreign languages from reading music of different lands. Music curriculum aimed at a further development of vocal technique, a greater stress on vocal training and the study of choral music styles. Much attention had been given to interpretive ability. A wide variety of music was taught to the junior and senior high. In the junior high the music de- partment was divided into two years of work. The students practiced develop- ment of good singing habits and un- derstanding the language of music. Through music seventh and eighth grade students studied not only the culture of the United States but also that of other countries. In May selected students from all the music classes joined with students from other schools to sing in the an- nual music festival held at the Ham- mond Civic Center.

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Exhibition Result From Various Academic Projects Junior and senior high school physical education students concentrated mainly on skills of tumbling. Selected students performed in the Gymkhana, Gavit’s annual gym show April 25. Some of the featured activities in the show were a trampoline exhibition, modern dancing and tumbling. Participating students set the majority of their acts to representative mood music. High school girls took home economics as an elective, whereas junior high girls took it as a re- quirement. While the junior high cooking classes studied the preparation of breakfasts and lunches, the high school girls went on to more advanced work. The home economics department supervised a spring style show March 27. Mr. C. Holganse, a fashion Mr. J. Levande supervises the new class in mechanical drawing commentator from a Gary department store, narrated the show, for which students modeled. Industrial Arts students explored the Jean Ferry, student assistant, demonstrates trampoline techniques for freshman girls. aspects of industry as an OCCUp tiOfl. In the shop the junior high boys learned the common values of their tools and how to use them. Nineteen high school boys entered the new mechanical drawing class. They stud- ied the graphic language” used by draftsmen in all industries. Freshman boys engage in various group calisthen- ics in preparation for their daily class.