Knightstown High School - Galaxy Yearbook (Knightstown, IN)

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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 -

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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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sg- I' Zhu . 5h-. QW rf' if . LuJ'l li iv ,415 74664 7c2ne and patcznce Nelda McKinney looks on as Bob Neal worlu on a picture. Miss McKinney teaches art and elementary music. The art department exhibits each year in the Eastern Indiana Art Exhibit at the Public Library. They make posters for school functions, decorations for the annual Halloween party, and paint Christ- mas scenes on the high school building windows. Don Moore exhibited a Cray-pas, still-life study of roses. Cray-pas is a pastel crayon made in Japan. The elementary music department furnishes music for convocations. Jane Brosius, Katie Smith, Verlyn Bishop, and Darlene Cox, a high school chorus group, sings for school programs and civic organizations. This year the group sang at the Social Studies ses- sion of the Indiana State Teacher's Association. X. , 'D w '41-1 'Vi -.ta-..i'i2gf' H c is Wilburn T. Elrod is studying some music he plans to use for band. He teaches A and Bband at Knightstown, also he hasC band at Kennard and Knightstown elementary schools. Besides these he has a junior high school chorus. This year the band got three new instruments: a 12 x 15 field drum, a B bass clarinet, and a C piceolo. They also bought new wind breakers with monograms. Each year the band and chorus put on a Christmas Convocation and a May Musical. The chorus participated in the District Cho- ral Festival. Band and chorus teaches the students cooperation, physical coordination, and personal neatness. Futhermore it gives them the opportunity for individual achievement. By having re- sponsibilities in Mr. Elrod's classes they learn self-reliance. These subjects offer a better understanding and appreciation of music and the arts in general. 7443 Vaaqaodgwk Jane Kellum is checking out books for Robert E. McCorkle, Melvin Basickcr, and Harold Gold. Besides being in charge of the library, she teaches Spanish and Latin. The Southwestern school library, located in the main building, serves grades one through twelve. In addition to various reference books, the book collection,augmenteti this year by the Kennard library, numbers about 3300 volumes. The school also has a growing collection of film strips and slides. The library is staffed throughout the day by students who volunteer their services to the student body and faculty. Their only compensa- tion is the satisfaction of service and skill in using the materials in a library. The township grade schools are also supplied by the New Castle -Henry County bookmobile. However, they own their own reference collections, and this year many new ref- erence materials have been purchased.