Hammond Technical Vocational High School - Chart Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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NEW CURRICULUM IN COMPLETED BUILDING LIFE BEGINS AT In 1959 — its fortieth year of service — Tech gave an answer to additional needs made necessary by space travel, automation, and cold war.” No longer was it designed to give mainly that training necessary for skilled work in business and industry; Tech ' s curriculum was reorgan- ized to make scientific and technological pre- paration another of its specialties and thus serve the time. This was the first year of completed building. This was the first year of a new Technical Division. The era of the new building and the new curriculum had just begun. Life began anew for Tech at forty.

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1959 - SPACE-AGE NEED PROMPTED

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Students seeking a portion of their education from test tubes highlighted the new in Tech classes: the Technical Division, expanded in 1958-59, included courses in chem- istry, biology, physics, math — also other classes designed to help prepare needed scientists and technicians. Tech ' s aim has always been to design classes to meet changing needs. Tech’s first classes, (arithmetic, hygiene and safety, English, citizenship) were organized to serve part-time students who worked in industry and who had not finished regular schooling. When need arose for vocationally trained high school graduates, shops were added. Shop related classes were in- cluded. Examples: math for a student in sheet metal em- phasized problems in layout work; business English made drill on sentence structure an important part of a future stenographer’s training. A core of required subjects and a selection of electives rounded out the program. In 1958-59, Tech classes served the vocational student and the college bound, technical student as well. BARBARA STILLER and ART HAM con- duct experiment in chemistry class. 10