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

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Time tests push these students to fullest cap acity. Miss Knoll checks the stop watch. 'o-op program employs 23 business students Business courses prepare students for office jobs and helps them in their private life. They will be able to take notes in college, keep personal records and type reports. Beginning typists are confronted with many strange assignments such as finger exercises. They learn to clean machines, to set margins, and change the ribbon. Slowly they peck out FGJH FGJH, but soon they know the keyboard. Typists work to increase their speedg they compose and correct copy at the machine. Two years of shorthand adds to the student's secretarial skill. These students fill notebooks with word symbols. Later they have to decipher these notes. Office practice teaches students to file. They crank ditto and mimeography machines and oper- ate a calculator. The building project helped this department both in classroom space and new equip- ment. Bookkeeping provides future accountants. Receptionists are trained in oflice communications classes. 23 Seniors gained on-the-job experience in the co-op program. Attending school in the morn- ing, they receive both pay and credit for their part-time jobs. Gail Odelil-lS'S eyes are OH the tyliiflg book H0t 011 her 503' Rosie Pierson completes her daily assignment by the use el'S HS She increases Speed 00 the electric typewfitef- of an electric adding machine. It is one of the many new 10 machines installed in the business department this year.

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New language lab helps perfect accents. Pantomining the myth of Midus, Sue Thompson, the bar- ber, is about to discover the secret, donkey ears! She un- winds the Turbin of Toga-clad King Midus, alias Sue Val- entine. A stubborn burro gives two Spanish students trouble to the amusement of the PTA audience. Marc Volland, Swiss foreign exchange student, portrays a Frenchman in the skit for the PTA. Changes overhauled the language department this year. Mr. Carroll's famous Valeta dismissed classes from 1213 Miss Kaczmarek, Senorita Law, and Mr. Mutti also moved to new rooms. German was offered, but the bigest surprise of all was the language laboratory. Entering listening booths, students heard records in French or Spanish. Imi- tating the pronunciation, they recorded their voices which they could later analyze. Overcoming grammar required the concentra- tion of 1st and 2nd year students. Advanced lin- guists translated books and conversed in their respective languages. Spanish students practiced their book learning in skits. They dressed in pon- chos and sombreros to provide the South of the Border mood. Classes learned about the customs of the country by celebrating its holidays. In honor of the god Satan, Latin classes celebrated the ancient Roman Saturnalia. Some language students entered the state language contests. -,RWM if Two French students listen to the disk which they have just cut in the language laboratory.

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ml ll? 1 i r -L.. Freshies learn through charts to be good citizens in civics classes. Proiects, trips spark Social Studies Dept. Studying history helps future voters avoid the mistakes of yesterday, understand the problems of today, and predict the situations of tomorrow. Freshies received their first taste of social studies in civics classes. Here they were introduced to John Adams, to local, state and national govern- ment and to propaganda devices. U. S. history projects kept students away from the TV set. As editors of an 1865 newspaper, they reported the death of President Lincoln. World history students' filled notebooks with names, facts, and theories gathered from Mr. Schutz's lectures. Government students tried bandits in mock trials. 12A's chose between reading newspapers in sociology or writ- ing critical analysies in econornics. Chicago's qw . - - Chinatown and Maxwell Street were visited by Campaign demonstrations are both noisy and colorful. . these seniors. .4 .1 -,....f :President Eisenhower watches a history student who iS This four-man committee proofreads their newspaper ,earching for the Alamo. which reports the death of Lincoln. ' I'l