Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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(TIME in the classroom paid off in new skills Classtime in M.H.S. involves more than the old-fashioned reading and recitation procedure. It may include such diverse activities as frying potato chips and measuring the height of the smokestack. During the year we attended classes that ranged from courses in mixing cakes to mixing concrete. Mary Jean Warren, Wanda Mason and Mavis Harrison prepare culinary delights in Foods class. Clothing is the other major activity in the home economics department. Here, left to right, Barbara Glasscock, Marlene Fulford, Nancy Suddith, and Esther Wise are cutting and sewing their dress fabrics. Homework is no problem for the mem¬ bers of the driver education classes. Mr. Bisesi, showing off the new dual-control Ford supplied by Hendrickson and Com¬ pany, finds the pupils eagerly attentive. Oral communication is an important part of the curriculum of the English depart¬ ment. Mr. Caress and class lend their ears to a budding Demosthenes, Art Ayers. A major building improvement during the summer was the new chemistry lab. Modern in every detail, it enables students to perform experiments with greater ac¬ curacy, but does not eliminate sulfuric acid spatterings upon the experimenter’s cloth¬ ing. The new lab also includes equipment from the old electric shop for a new science course in applied electricity. Prepping for their high school career, junior high students struggle with courses designed to take the fun out of living. Dis¬ playing rare concentration for the photog¬ rapher, they discover difficulties connected with long division. 8

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as seniors prepared for graduation Jack Cragen, junior class president, re¬ ceives the key, symbolic of the senior class, scholastic endeavor, and school leadership, from Bob Johnson, senior class president, at class day last year. Phil Dunn reluctantly submits to a bit of mortar board adjustment by Miss Rose as the class practices for graduation exercises. Patty Quakenbush, Marjorie Cragen and Carmella Cascian stand by. PROM TIME 1950 “Stairway to the Stars” was the theme of last year’s prom. The seniors will long remember cutting, pasting, and hanging stars, clambering over the rickety stepladder, and smashing fingernails, but it was worth it all. Our star-studded refreshment committee consisted of John Dixon, Carol Austin, Wanda Miller, Shirley Walters, De- lores Maxwell, Peggy Hacker and Jon Lee. There was the mad scramble to be in the prom picture and then dis¬ covering that you were just a little too far to the left.

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and broader understandings The richly varied curriculum is intended to produce competent, healthy citizens who will be equipped to earn a living and make some contribution to the general welfare. Those who choose an industrial arts course spend, in either their junior or senior years, half their school day master¬ ing the operation of various mechanisms found in the machine shop. Mr. Hochstetler explains the functions of a metal lathe to Delbert Scott and Harold Porter. In order to graduate from M.H.S., you must successfully peruse a year of science. Many students choose biology. Here a group of biology students ponder the classi¬ fications of various organisms under the tutelage of Mr. Gill. Left to right, the young scientists are Stan Whetstine, Webetta Wil¬ son, Bruce Throc kmorton, Wilma Thomp¬ son, Shirley Turney, Robert St. John. Ray Ayers, who is taking the six-weeks unit in concrete in the general shop course, totters under a load of concrete during the repair of the school sidewalks. Learning by doing, veteran mathematicians Marvin Wil¬ liams, Bill Neal, Bailey Davis, and John Bergman determine the height of the sec¬ ond niche over the gym entrance, via ap¬ plied trigonometry. 9