Homestead High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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14 . fn? it X iinvs. AS SHE READS over her paper, checking for mis- takes, senior Beth Bollinger sits at her typewriter. JUNIORS EDDY JONES and Mike Johannes go over a bookkeeping problem in general business. An Old Program Tokes New Form - M ..-. 4 --v-r - 1 4' . .2 li I, :T l,! AFTER CHECKING OVER his work sophomore Rick Morey seems to be content with the results. .15 s. N' . fi' J ie, 41. WHILE ESCAPING from the monotony of typing, ' senior Teresa Venderley relaxes with a smile. Business-13

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Lester Hill? Who is Lester Hill? Lester Hill? Who's Lester Hill? lt's not a who, it's a what. Lester Hill is the name of a simulated office which is set up in the business department. Department Head, Mrs. Jana Hughes, commented on how professional-like the office was. Students called her if they were going to be absent or 10fMs was deducted from their paycheck, which was actually their grade. The call-in system was set up to enforce job reality. A student must be interviewed and placed into a department by Mrs. Hughes, and the student manager of the simulated office. Students could be placed into an accounting or personnel department along with a number of oth- ers. Lester Hill provided an opportunity for students to acquire experience with a boss and working with people they may not like. lt also gave students a chance to improve skills they already had such as typing and shorthand. Distributive Education was a new tech- nique of teaching students how to cope with the business in the outside world. This was its second year, with approxi- mately 29 sophomores, juniors and sen- iors involved in the program. Nine of those were employed by places like Nlr. Wigg's, Platt Pharmacy, and Bellmont. An extension of DE fDistributive Edu- cationj in action was the Backroom, the school bookstore. Mr. Richard Schroe- der, the new director of the class, dou- bled as teacher and boss . He said the Backroom brought in a gross of 5250.00 and a net of 550.00 a week, which made the profit approximately 5200.00 a month. The money was used to pay off debts owed by the store. The motive of distributive education was to produce future leaders for the business world. Business can be a wide field of achievement whether one is going on to college or straight into a business profes- sion. All of the courses offered, anything from Lester Hill to personal typing, better prepared students for future careers. It helped to develop their skills but it also taught them patience with fellow workers. WHILE COUNTING OUT her lines, freshman Peggy Sorg concentrates upon her typing page. WORKING WITH their secretarial equipment, sen- iors Cindy Farmer and Carla Hoover type up their departmental assignments for Lester Hill. 12-Business

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Do You Pull Your Eor? Did you realize you were sending sig- nals every time you crossed your arms, pulled on your ear, jingled the money in your pocket or scratched your nose? Well you were! You could have been defending yourself, wanting to get into a conversation, worrying about your money or have been saying you were lying. Mrs. Rose Travis explained these lan- guages ofthe body to the students of her communications class. She did this in several different ways, like jumping up and down or flapping her arms or even singing a song. A GROUP OF English students has a class discus- sion about an assigned book. Body language was the first section of communications. Mrs. Travis created the class herself and she felt body language was a necessary part of learning since it makes up 7O'Mi of life's communications. Besides body language she taught some speech, photography and the sec- ond semester was media and society. She showed four movies and had her stu- dents critically analyze them. Communications was a non-college bound course but it taught the students who took it how to utilize their imagina- tion in English and then put it into reality. JUNIORS MARTHA LAPUNKA and Frank DeSantis catch a passionate kiss during an English skit in Mrs. Carolyn Parson's Lit. Class. LX 4 1' SEEMINGLY HAVING A pleasant conversation while going over notes, a group of juniors prepare for a test. 4