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

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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

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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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JORGE ORTEGON, HOMECOMING KING for 1961 crowned Linda Black, Homecoming Queen. Cheerleader, and LINDA pbifb , « £,«„,, , v coming ° am Mann. THE COLD NIGHT AIR was filled with the warm enthusiasm of Tech students at the annual Homecoming Bonfire.