Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Current events, films, aid social studies students Consumer Report, Dow-Jones ' average and form the basis of Economics VIII, help sen- pamphlets on consumer buying power, which iors understand fluctuations in U.S. economy. ■ Current events, movies, speakers aided all social studies classes as seniors finished three years of such study by entering a world of cam- paign slogans, party platforms and political duties in Government VII. National debt and budget prob- lems faced economics seniors, who made scrapbooks to show findings. Seeing the before and after of world events was aided by movies and museum trips. World War II study meant bringing war relics. Junior high history promoted his- toric novels, biographies, while civics classes began a hoped-for tradition of touring local court, city halls and studying voting machines. Geographical points of interest capture Rich Rogala ' s attention as he studies a world map. Documents — from the Declaration of Inde- Sara Solon, to the Test-Ban Treaty — are dis - pendences being studied by Randy Clad and cussed by junior high students in history. 27

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Aiming toward skill in mathematical operations, Miss Caryle Feddeler presents a math puzzle to her eighth grade class. Mathematicians find 20 courses to perplex them ■ Challenging minds were 20 re- quired and elective math courses. General math offered just that, concentrating on finance problems. Algebra brought graphs, unknown X’s and Y’s to college prep students. Aristotles went on to geometry, studying angles and polygons, prov- ing unknowns deductively. Branching to advanced algebra meant logarithms and slide rule, so handy in scientific calculations. Reaching a mathematical peak were senior courses of trigonometry and Geometry 1 1 1 for math majors. UISCM reached a third year for advanced students, but the math pyramid’s base was junior high ' s decimals, problems, basic operations. Opaque projectors and a three- foot slide rule modernized classes Putting theorems to work in problem solv- ing is Debbie Wojciehowski as Sandy Wilson examines a collection of geometric figures.

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■ Executaries, copiers premiere in business family ■ Calculating on new adding ma- chines, taking dictation from execu- taries headed daily assignments in Clerical Practice I and II, new mem- bers of the business family. Needed for clerical work was also speedy and accurate skill in trans- cription, which heralded a two-hour early bird schedule each day. Preluding transcription were se- mesters of shorthand and typing. Business law, math, management again versed students in economic and legal phrases of business. Nine hours of typing stretched from early bird to eighth hour. Instructing these 26 classes were Misses Florence Crunkemeyer, Judy Baker; Mr. Rich Jonas, Mrs. Eleanor Rainey, and Mr. Homer Meredith, head guidance counselor. Copying examples from the textbook helps proficiency in one of the business depart- junior Ellen Sherby to develop stenographic ment ' s beginning shorthand classes. Animated concentration marks typing ef- forts of juniors Flossie Alb, Sharon Leonard. New business machines, automatic calcula- tors, take over even subtraction and multi- plication, as seniors Sharyn Medley and Carole Rosinski learn in Clerical Practice I.