Hauser Junior Senior High School - Jetstream Yearbook (Hope, IN)

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Equipment Train Students Home Economics students have available this year new appliances and much needed space. In the kitchen with its spacious work areas and formal dining room, young homemakers learn to purchase, prepare, and serve food attractively. Girls learn clothing design and construction in the sewing room containing new machines and large storage cabinets. Also new are facilities for the study of Interior Decorating and Home Nursing. During the first semester, freshmen, sophomores, and juniors leam cooking and food preservation under the direction of Mrs. Betty Bumey, while junior high girls are taught basic sewing skills by Mrs. Harriet Spotts. Second semester, freshmen and juniors move next door to develop their sewing abilities and junior high students study foods. Sophomores then study the care of the sick and injured in Home Nursing, taught by Mrs. Bumey. Interior Decorating, taught by Mrs. Burney, is offered to seniors during the first semester. Students learn design and harmony as applied to the home, studying house and furnishing styles and visiting exhibits such as the Furniture Fashion Show at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. Each girl must design a dream home , choosing the house design and all interior decoration. Second semester, seniors take a course in marriage and family relations. for the Adult World SWISH! Sophomore girls Norma Barton, Bonnie Bush, Kathy Arnold, and Karen Miller wish dishes could always be done so quickly and so well. NEEDLES AND PINS. A little on edge is Karen Alvis, an eighth grade student, in her first bout with a sewing machine in Mrs. Spotts' junior high clothing class. SCRUB-A-DUB DUB. Tide goes in and the wash comes out so clean. Sophomores Peggy Ropp and Caroline Shirley learn how a modern wash is done. 29

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Up-to-Date Methods And New rooms 10, 11, and 19, housing business classes are so attractive and well equipped that they have added zest to learning of the basic skills. Mastering business machines, calculators, mimeograph machines,---------all so new and sparkling--- is a real adventure for students learning to cope with the business world. Mainly, courses offered in the business field are for juniors and seniors except for General Business Training. These courses are taught by Mr. Wickard, and Mrs. Webster. Mr. Wickard teaches Typing I, economics, general business, and a completely new course in business machines. Mrs. Webster teaches Typing II, Shorthand I and II, and bookkeeping. IT ALL ADDS UP! Marie Andrews deftly skims the long columns of figures in business machines. CHINESE? In shorthand class senior Tammy Holder takes IT TAKES A LOT A PUNCH! In typing c 1 a s s Malcom dictation, readying herself for a secretarial job. Bragg completes a typing problem. 28

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Fine Arts and Physical Ed. While our school is new on the outside, there are many new pleasures enjoyed on the inside. This year there is a new aspect to physical education--folk dancing. It is taught in combined classes by Mrs. Geneva Wickens and Mr. Robert Miller. Also, both classes enjoy the use of larger locker rooms with individual lockers and baskets. This year the girls are required to wear gym suits. The chorus, directed by Mrs. Mary Workman, takes advantage of their new dark green robes as they participate in contests and the annual Christmas and spring concerts. The art students, guided by Mr. John Owens, use their abilities to create masterpieces which are often seen in the showcase across the hall from the art room and in other places around the school. TWO POINTS? Teresa Green hopes so, as she and Roxanne Ray anxiously await the outcome. Both girls enjoy playing basketball, which is one of the favorite activities of Mrs. Wickens physical education class. BOTTOMS UP!! This is the end result as each boy in technique to attempt to perform the bicycle exercise, Mr. Miller's physical education class uses a different which helps develop leg muscles and coordination. 30