Madison Heights High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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defensive driving stressed to 312 new drivers Mr. Bruin shows students that it takes more than a key and a gas pedal to make a car run. An interested class looks on as Mr. Howell explains different kinds of frac tures. Due to combined efforts of drivers’ education, safety, and health instructors, MHHS students strove to perfect skills in handling an automobile, administering proper first-aid, and studying human body parts and functions. Three hundred and twelve students climbed behind the wheel of a new drivers’ education car during the 1965-66 school year. Close at hand, the instructor stressed courteous, safe, and defensive driving. In the classroom, or in the drivers’ education car, students practiced and learned the basic techniques and skills of driving. In addition to safe driving, students concentrated on ban¬ dage wrapping, artificial respiration, and human anatomy. Health enabled the student to understand human anatomy and body functions. In safety, pupils were taught care of an accident victim. In safety class, Bucky Sheets and Butch Heath demonstrate the art of artificial respiration.

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ec course modernized Sounds of buzzing saws, sizzling food, and pounding ham¬ mers served as a reminder to the student body that the home economics and industrial arts departments were hard at work. The conventional home economics class was modernized with new trends in food preparation and sewing by Mrs. Jane Gwinn, Mrs. Winifred Bryant, and Mrs. Patsy Worrell. The eleven complete kitchens and twenty-seven sewing ma¬ chines were used by students in courses adapted to the pre-cooked foods and ready-made clothes of modern society. The advanced cooking class specialized in fancy and foreign foods. As well as serving all faculty and senior teas, future homemakers catered for area clubs and organizations. High values and goals for adulthood were instilled in students in the family living class. The construction of a gable-roofed barn by Mr. Morris Smith’s building trades class marked the largest structure the daily three-hour class has completed. Drafting, machine shop, auto mechanics, and building trades fill the five work areas of the Industrial Trades Department. Mike Douglas extricates a ball joint from a 1957 Cadillac. A face mask is mandatory for welders. Machine shop student Larry Reddin works skillfully on a drill press. - •

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Girls acquire kicking skills by con¬ tinued hard work in physical ed¬ ucation class. fitness grows as frosh learn international sports This year’s physical education department combined im¬ provement and fun to further fitness and health. Learning various games and sports, being tested for physical dexterity, and taking field trips rounded out the year’s activities for the freshman boys and girls. The freshman girls learned how to bowl, ice skate, play golf, and even master billiards. Understanding sports through classroom studies enabled the girls to enjoy watching games from the sidelines. Flag football, basketball, and calisthenics accounted for a part of the freshman boys’ program. The boys had experience in weight lifting and with gymnastic equipment. Running track events, taking physical fitness tests, and playing baseball, soccer, and volleyball completed the year’s agenda. During a summer work-out session, Bill Carter lifts weights to increase muscle tone. Punting during physical education class, the hoys learn the basic fundamentals of football. 27