John Adams High School - Album Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Shaping dough into a firm roll, Sheila Hoffman promises Patty Aaron a cookie within the hour. Homemakers follow directions, gain know. Learning is doing , but Suzanne Boggs is not entirely alorm. She relies on Miss Frey's basting directions. From salad through dessert cooking students follow the recipe. They buy the ingredients, shop- ping for the best bargains. Students learn that housekeeping is more than washing dishes and dusting. They plan homes and make budgets to cover all family expenses. Child care is also included in this course. HOME ECONOMICS Knowing some day they will be homemakers, many girls take home economics courses. They cut financial corners by making their own clothes. After the difficlut choice, what to make, the girls tit the pattern, straighten the material, and pin the pieces to the cloth, all these steps are taken before the cloth is even cut. Beginners sew simple dresses while advanced seamstresses make suits. rn. if '-4 Nancy Horvath is pleased with her lightly-browned dinner rolls.

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Sandpaper smoothes the end table which Jim Waters pre- pares for a mahogany finish. Triangles, T. Squares, and the comments of fellow draftsmen help Jim Sjoquist with his drawing of a grinder vise. Shop dept. trains future craftsmen. Room l04's printing press hums with activity, printing pro- grams, posters, tickets, and badges for school use. Hoping someday to obtain industrial jobs, two of Mr. Bon- ham's shop students leam to operate the lathe. Industrial Arts train the craftsmen of tomor- row. Future engineers and architects add shop courses to their curricula. Machine Shop teaches students to operate, clean, and repair lathes, grind- ers, drill presses, shapers, and make small hand tools. Cabinets, tables and lamps are products of wood workingg leather belts and plastic jewelry result from craft courses. Drawing to scale, draft- ing students perched on high benches labor on blue prints. Shop students work for Adams. They printed tickets, made frames for the Eagle Ethics Code, and drew illustrations for Mr. Reber's opaque projector. Their display of handywork drew stu- dents to the library. Straight exact holes require a steady hand. Chuck Moore practices his technique on the drill press.

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1 A Four years of English, a little Warriner's, and a test book M entrance exams, Prepares ary Lou Alberts and Sue Valentine for college Students meet Dickens, Webster, Wcurriner. Grammar and literature make up an Adams glish course. Many hours are spent learning :l reviewing the Whys and wheres of the comma. :tle Warriner's Handbook is the English students' wleg Webster and Bergen Evans are also authors check. Diagnostic tests mark progress. Writing puts grammar rules into practice. ok reports, themes, and term papers are usual ignments. In four years, students study the Qlwmkwutww -qv, English works, Great Expectations, Silas Marner, and Shakespeares Tragedies. Juniors study Ameri- can literature from early journals to The Scarlet Letter to Hemingway's novels. Seniors examine authorls concepts. Oratorical ability is also devel- oped. English urges students to be critical, original, and imaginative. Teachers encourage students to THINK. 'ading the New York Times, Al From finds information T0 calm her nerves, Sue Gobdel reads aloud her report back up the theories which he plans to present in on Shakespearean drama. Her classmates listen for errors speech. 8