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

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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

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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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Creative confusion describes ort dept. Creative confusion describes 209, the art room. Students work alone or in groups drawing, molding, or painting. Some experiment with the potter's wheels while others sketch a still life. A few, glad to fill requests, art students tint photographs, print pos- ters and arrange Bowers for the cafeteria. Strange designs, water colors, mobiles and paper moscue masks decorate the art room. Walking is difficult because the paint splattered floor is covered with unfinished paintings. Cupboards and drawers in the back room hold the tools of the hopeful ar- tists. Also in the back room is the much used sink. In warm weather, they gather together paper and pencil and troop outdoors. Applied design students work with metal and clay. The history and principles of art are studied in Exploratory Art Course. Ad- vanced students work on projects of their own choice. Mother and child in blue oils takes shape with the brush strokes of Nancy Brinley. Mr. Benson, art teacher, watches. 'I2 Art clubbers look over their work which includes a self- portrait masks, and papermache objects. A high ladder helps these three hang a mobile advertising A Thread That Runs So True.