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

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Parents and Friends Sa t | i | 1 1 a ' l I A II llil 1 - F- l : PAT DRUTIS, second semester editor-in-chief, explained the process of editing The Tech Times to her parents at Open House during National Education Week. THE 1961 EXECUTIVE BOARD of Tech’s P.T.A. consisted of Mrs. Leo Galster, 1st vice-president; Mrs. Thomas Wood, 2nd vice-president; Mrs. Gail Gragido, president; Mrs. Andrew Polus, secretary, and Mr. H. H. Wilson, director of Tech. A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE was held to encourage the faculty and all parents of Tech students to join the P.T.A. Some of the members who took dues were, from left to right, Mrs. R. Hausenfleck, membership committee chairman; Mrs. R. M. Wil- son, Mrs. W. Geeve, Mrs. S. Durakovich, co-chair- man; and Mrs. G. Gragido, president of Tech P.T.A. MANY STUDENTS PARTICIPATED in the 1961 Open House which was held in the evening. These students returned to school in the evening and performed their work as they would on a regular school day. Bill Fowle and Kenneth Lukowski demonstrated a printing press to parents while Mr. P. Iannone, printing instructor, watched. EXPLAINING THE PROPER TECHNIQUES of indexing were Mary Polus and Tommie Phillips. B.L.I.E. visitors were Mr. A. E. Seidler, I.H.B.R.R. Co; Mr. Donald Pound, Department of Education; Mr. W. A. Williams, State Director of Vocational Educational; Mr. R. R. Day, Junior Toy, and Mr. Victor Monnett, Lever Brothers. John Hols- claw and Sharon Kammer were two of the Student Guides who guided visitors through the school. - r pH I L JrW WLmmmmmmm 1 L lAt, 4 jff '

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— They Traveled! PAT WILLIFORD, from center, represented Tech at the Safety Conference. Pat, along with other youths of this area, tried to solve some of our safety problems. VI LEWALLEN, MARY ELLEN MISNER, Lynn Castelo, Pat Mikulski, Jerry Michnal, and Severly Stahl participated in the annual Com- munity Chest Drive delivering speeches at fferent schools in the area about the charity • ganizations they had visited. MRS. JEAN PILOT, sponsor of the Hammond Safety Council, showed some of the materials used for the Teen-Age Traffic Safety Conference to Pat Williford, Joan Simon, Joe Szolona, Rickey Austin, Dave Feller, Jim Lewallen, and Mary Ellen Misner, Tech’s representatives to the conference. JERRY TIMMONS and Jack Lundsford were chosen as representatives to Hoosier Boys’ State this year. The program is sponsored by the American Legion. The boys were chosen for their scholastic abilities, their leadership, and their interest in government. A require- ment reached by both is that they were to have completed their junior year in high school by the end of the current school term. Hoosiers Boys ' State is, in operation, a government unit in which each boy participates in the practical functioning of local, country, and state govern- ment. LYNN CASTELO, senior, qualified at the Dis- trict Meet of the Indiana State Forensic League to go on to the State S peech Finals on April 29, at New Haven, Indiana. MRS. KRAMER, TYPING INSTRUCTOR, ap- peared on the popular T.V. program, “The Price Is Right. Her prizes included a Maytag washer and dryer, an Amana refrigerator, a Tappan gas range, a Kitchen-Aid portable dishwasher, a child’s car, and a 1931 Chevrolet. PICTURED HERE IS ROSETTA WHITIS, senior, who, in Transcription II, passed the 140 w.p.m. Gregg Dictation Speed Test. In the 5-minute take, she was allowed 30 errors; Rosetta had only 7. She had an accuracy of 98.6%. DISCUSSING HIS WINNING POSTER with Coach Paul Hoeman was Bill Orenick, junior. Bill’s poster took first prize in the Student Council Clean-up Poster-Slogan Contest. Bill received a ticket to the Sectionals. SHOWN HERE ARE Linda Martin and Marsha Everly, winners of the National Facit Accuracy Typing Contest. Linda had 62 words per minute with no errors while Marsha had 61. Each received a handsome Achievement Medal and were eligible for the Regional Contest.

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MACK MOSER EXPLAINED methods used in Pattern Shop to the 1961 B.L.I.E. visitors: Mr. Ronald Alitto, LaSalle Steel Co; Mr. Herb Hoffman, Purdue University; Mr. Joseph A. Mc- Aleer, Keyes Fiber, and Mrs. Ron Kampwirth, Edward Valves. The student guides for this group were Barbara Djenka and Tom Melton. Tech at Work VISITORS ON B.L.I.E. DAY were taken on guided tours of the shop and classes. Here Mr. J. A. Donovan, from Inland Steel; Mr. W. H. Hathaway, from Nipsco; Mr. A1 Jackson, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., and Mr. G. J. Grimmer, Standard Railway Equip- ment Co., were guided through Drafting Shop by Donna Papp and Kalman Borbely. SANDY SEIFER explained a typing job to Mr. Jack Ogren, from Jack Ogren Inc.; Mr. Bruce R. Mason, from Pullman Standard, and Harold I. Pratt, from the American Steel Foundaries, on B.L.I.E. Day. Ken Kiser and Louise Kajdi, student guides, watched. DURING NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK girls from the Business Educaton Department gave demon- strations of their clerical skills in the window of the Northern Indiana Stationery Company. Pictured here is Peggy Boren, typing from a dictaphone machine. WAYNE AUSTIN AND DEANNA MOTE showed a biology dis- play to visitors on B.L.I.E. Day. They were G. F. Dailey, from Fadell Personnel; Ted Swets, from the Bordon Company, and Margaret J. Allen, a School Board member. 27