Knightstown High School - Galaxy Yearbook (Knightstown, IN)

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ffu tie 3 Pzogamna ?au'44ed? Norman Bassett is watching his students as they work. The drafting department got some new bow compasses this year. No individual awards are given except in industrial arts as awhole. The classes give the students a sample of industrial drafting. It broadens their experience so that they may take up drafting as a vocation or avocation. - f Charlotte Kney is watching Sondra Porter, Lois Brown, and Jean VanDuyn as they take an open book test. Miss Kney teaches homemaking and biology. Edithe Tipton also teaches homemaking. This year two new unit kitchens, complete with maple cabinets and two automatic ranges, were installed in the homemaking deparmnent. Each year the home ec. girls put on a style show and have a Christmas Tea for the faculty. Any senior girl may enter the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow Contest for a scholarship. The Necchi Company gives three awards to the best seamstresses in Homemaking. The department teaches the girls to be good homemakers which includes learning to be good cooks, and seamstresses, to manage their homes and the family budget, and to care for their children. The two teachers also strive to teach them to take part in the activities of their community and to be good citizens. f ,-11 'flat Www Plan '74 Dae 7omauoca Norman Bassett is showing Doug Shores how to operate a proof press during one of his printing classes. The proof press and a paper cutter have been added to the equipment in the printing department. A larger room is being used for the two classes. The printing de- partment serves the school in many different ways. All of the absence slips, tardy slips, admittance slips, and passes are printed there. Programs, tickets, stationery, and posters are also printed for the school. The printing department strives to give first hand understanding of vocational opportunity.

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X 5 1 f S . . X f In William Derrickson, boys' physical education teacher, and David Brown watch as Bill Molden demonstrates a position in tumbling. Mr. Derrickson also has classes in driver's education and health and is assistant coach. The equipment which was at Kennard was brought down for the classes here. The boys participate in intermural tourneys in various sports. Mr. Derrickson feels his classes help his students develop sportsmanship and an ability to work with others. It develops an interest in activities that can be used as recreation in later life. Ile also says it gives the boys an opporttmity to let off steam. Wanda Smith, girls' physical education teacher, is in- structing her girls. Her gym classes worked rhythms, learned folk dancing, and played softball, relays, and other outdoor games. Learning how to work as a team is one of the values of physical education. Although much of her schedule includes classes for those in grades seven thru ten, Miss Smith also teaches the grade school physical education and teaches a health class. She strives to show' her pupils how to use physical education in all activities of life. Mary Cox, Barbara Smith, Sharon Barns, and Myra Mattix are her gym assistants. ffmo, 140844, 240646 Ersie Naffe explains the fundamental structure which she teaches in second year Latin and her junior and senior English classes. To aid her in teaching Latin, she uses movies and bulletin boards. She correlates English and Latin to enable the student to make the transition from Latin to English smoothly and easily. By instilling in the student a better understanding of English grammar through Latin, the student can write better themes and papers. if Aera 7460 :de Suu Joyce Skaggs, local speech teacher, is opening an envelope which undoubtedly contains an invitation to one of the many speech meets attended throughout the state by her students. With her are three of her students: Pat Butler, Shirley Walker and Becky Vest. Mrs. Skaggs also sponsors the senior class and N.F.L. Besides speech she teaches social studies, English, and a yearbook class. As well as entering meets, her speech students present programs to Kiwanis and other civic clubs and perform in plays during the spring. ller desire is to give a boy or a girl enough confidence to stand before a group and express himself clearly. Q ll

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gzckg 4 Sad Sample llow ard Meeks supervises Jim Sw indell and Darrell Haines as they test soil. Mr. Meeks teaches vocational agriculture and biology. I-le shows movies to demonstrate many of the things they study. They use soil and milk testing equipment, soil sampling tubes, and tree pruning and farm shop tools. His classes also work with microscopes, dissecting equipment, samples of fertilizers, seeds, and grain graders, Each year he has his agriculture classes collect weed seeds, insects, and tree leaves. His students keep farm records, participate in judging activities and go on field trips to nearby farms. The FFA has a gilt chain which they tend. They also have a school dance each fall. They participate in county crops, livestock, dairy, and poultry contests. Each year the DeKalb Agriculture Aw ard, the FFA Chapter Star Farmer Aw ard, and the Judging Teams Awards are given. Mr. Meeks says the purpose of the agriculture classes is to train farm boys for the business of farming and related occupations. 2202+ :vga aa Walter Havercamp and Mariellen Ammerman watch Jack Avery work on an experiment. He teaches general science and chemistry. The departnient has sufficient apparatus for magnetism, heat, light, atmospheric pressure and the other branches of the physical sciences. A group of math and science students visited the science exhibit at Purdue in ested in helping people understand what is going on around them in this scientific age. The science department strives to develop scientific curiousity in those students who show an interest and aptitude in science and related subjects. This is particularly true since the recent foreign develop- ments such as the Sputniks. He hopes to help all students grow individually and to recognize the fact that they have a responsible membership in a democratic society and the troubled world today. 74621 '74 tie Wag 752: Done Marcus Ellis, general shop teacher, is working with the lathe as Manasseh Gillam and Tom Armstrong watch. In his general shop classes he teaches metals, electricity, woods, and plastics. The shop classes use hand tools and power tools including wood and metal lathes, a metal Shaper, and circu- lar, hand and jig saws. An industrial arts award is given to an outstanding shop student based on shop work during four years of participation. Mr. Ellis strives to acquaint the student with the tools, mater- ials, and practices of industry which may be used as a basis for a vocation of his choice. 13 demonstrating the basic principles in chemistry, electricity, November. Mr. Havercamp hoped to have some representa- tion at the spring exhibit. The science department is inter-