Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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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

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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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‘TflMtlb for student talent and hospitality A foreign flavor was given M.H.S. by Jody Raemaekers of Holland and Gene Foist, who lived in Chinki, Korea, for one and a half years. Jody, on lend lease from the Netherlands, affords students a glimpse of her homeland. Gene, who is considered an authority on Oriental affairs, points out Korea to his geography class. Jody won honorable mention on the an¬ nual student amateur program where the “things,” Phil Dunn, Don See, John Hine, and Marvin Williams, rendered Phil Harris ' hit tune. One of the winners on the pro¬ gram was Martin Boggs, assisted by Gerald Holmes, with his life-size television pro¬ gram. Eating occupies student time — occasion¬ ally even during school hours. Mrs. Hoch- stetler and Donice Prather serve the annual Christmas banquet to the Foods class, while Janet Gibson pours for the home economics students at the annual Yuletide F.H.A. tea. Class routine is interrupted by other di¬ versions. Four government students, Jack Cragen, Carolyn Godsey, Margaret Van Winkle, and Marvin Williams, present a panel discussion on citizenship to members of the Central School P.T.A. Artists Marilyn McDaniel, Frances Mul¬ der, Sue Branch and Linda Davis paint the Santa mural that decorated the main hall the week before Christmas. Ellen Bowers, John Bergman, and Patty Quakenbush inspect the new desks in Room 12. A social dancing class got beyond the talking stage this winter when members of F.F.A. solicited help from Miss Stalcup and Mrs. Davis, who rounded up several en¬ thusiastic student teachers. At the left in the shadows Patsy Ayres gives a few point¬ ers to James West, who — rumor has it — insists on nightly practice in the Ayres’ parlor. In the foreground are Jim Ander¬ son and Carole Meredith; to the right are John Thomas and Peggy Carr. 10