Knightstown High School - Galaxy Yearbook (Knightstown, IN)

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1 Pmctcze77Z4+6e4 77afut Mrs. MARGARET M. SIMONS is showing Jean Ann Davis and Eldred Butcher how to run the mimeograph. She teaches typing, shorthand, and English 10. EVELYN A. WARNER is watching Sybil Bramrner as she types a business letter. Miss Warner teaches Business English, bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, and typing. Besides using the standard typewriters the students also have access to an electric typewriter, an Ediphone, a Dictaphone, and adding machines. This year for the first time a Gregg award will be given for the highest speed and production in short- hand. Miss Warner took her bookkeeping classes to visit one of the banks. The Commercial Department prepares the students to get part-time jobs during the summer and to qualify for secretarial work after graduation. The Department introduces the office machines to the students, giving them a working knowledge of how the machines work. This gives the student the opportunity to work for the faculty, doing such things as typing tests and running them off on the machines. The student is also better prepared for college work, for almost all papers to be handed in must be typed. 9404 Egan, Eu: Mrs. HELEN GREENLAND is explaining to Rose Flower and Phyllis Jordan how a phrase in music is like a sentence in English, for Mrs. Greenland teaches not only two English classes but also grade music and directs the high school chorus. PATTY LYONS shows a group of her students, con- sisting of Rebecca Ratliff, John Dickens, Ronnie Ballenger, Kenny Gregory, and Jim Swindell, how to diagram a simple sentence. Mrs. Lyons teaches six classes of English to students in grades seven thru ten. Her seventh grade pupils wrote poetry this year and several of her students entered speech contests. Lois Simmerman illustrates verbals to one of her six English classes. Throughout the English Department bulletin boards and filmstrips are used to show the importance of English. fe- 'f . 14

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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-

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Ornqfadageaa ' World HILTON BALLENGER is grading a salt and flour map made by one of his students as William Schaeffer and Ricky Forst study the next day's assignment. Harlan Clark is telling his U.S. History class that a term paper will be due January 27. Mrs. Skaggs and Mr. Myers teach Civics. The social studies teachers use maps, charts and movies as aids in their teaching. Mr. Ballenger showed one of his classes how to make salt and flour maps, then each student made one. He also took a class to visit the Henry County Historical Societyf Mr. CLARK planned two projects for his classes, a battle scene of Pearl Harbor and the trend in transportation. Social studies offer the social, economic and political knowledge of the world of yesterday and today. In this way pupils learn the direct and indirect causes and results of world affairs. Social studies offer the opportunity to determine how past history has affected our living and to speculate as to what, why, and how we will be living in the future. Thus a pattern is formed for a successful future in life. Social studies prepare the student now for the complex problems that are ahead in a changing world. fa+a1 52-fa-dl ,za RICHARD SCHNECK, a jr. high mathematics teacher, is discussing the next day's assignment with his class. Claude L. Sipe is explaining an algebra problem to Jerry Williamson. Besides freshman algebra, Mr. Sipe also teaches advanced algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, and trigonometry. With Ralph Clock is Patty Riley to whom he is explaining the reason the triangles are congruent. Each year the mathematics department participates in the Indiana University Achievement Day programs. Mr. SCI-INECK, Mr. SIPE, and Mr. CROCK attempt to provide the students with an under- standing of mathematics and the tools to solve these problems. They encourage clear, logical thinking. Great emphasis is being placed on mathe- matics today. A knowledge of higher mathematics is a prerequisite for scientific scholarships and higher study in the scientific field. 1 5 In-i'Q'? -K' l' A -