Mentone High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Mentone, IN)

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DIFFERENT FORMS Communication through art forms became the goal of Mrs. Finney’s two high school art classes. Students pro- jected their talents through work in paper mache con- struction. They were continually cutting-up with their cut paper projects and developing into the study of potatoe block printing. A nervous “Hello, my name is ... ” was the first big step for beginning speech students. Their assignments in- cluded, T.V. commercials, visual aids, and informative speeches. For students who wanted to put their ideas into practice there was the advanced speech and drama class. They not only learned more about the art of speaking, drama students provided programs for the student body and the reading club. Susan Romine attended a pre-college institute on speech and hearing therapy at Purdue. She was sponsored by the Psi Iota Xi. The three English teachers combined forces in making rigorous well-rounded classes. American, English, and 20th Century novels were read in as well as out of class. Also, many contemporary and classic plays were read and papers written on them. Mr. McClure made a change with book reports by assigning complicated 1500-word precises. Creative writing was done in all the English classes. Mrs. Hoke supplied each senior English student with a personal jt,. folder to keep their work in. Beginning Latin students attended enjoyable classes when Mr. McClure introduced Latin Bingo, exercises at the board and the new use of workbooks along with language, the students studied Roman customs and traditions. Chris Miner and Debbie Smythe composed the Latin II class which met during activity periods. Spanish 1 and II classes were unique in the sense that Mr. Bazzini used more than a textbook. Reciting sentences, using picture cards and film strips added to the visual aids while the use of a tape recorder or record player served the purpose of hearing the syllables in Spanish. Many masterpieces come suddenly. ‘Pictures make learning Spanish easier,” say Mollie and Reid. 21

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COMMUNICATION’S Expression starts with the indi- vidual. ABOVE: Larry strives for the “right” nose. BELOW: Kris could feel mighty lonely. 20

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BUSINESS ADDS SECRETARIAL COURSE LEFT COLUMN: Hibbs, Shirey, Peters, Long, Murphy, Smythc. RIGHT COLUMN: Truex, Wiard. Foreman, Shortz, Decker, Sisk, Mrs. Romine. A new course, clerical practice, was offered in the business department. This was a finishing course in secre- tarial skills. Ten girls enrolled and each had the opportunity to work with adding, typing, duplicating, and calculating machines, and filing. For practical experience, each student acted as secretary to three teachers. “Assets-liabilities + proprietorship” and other prin- ciples of bookkeeping composed the study materials for both beginning and advanced bookkeeping classes. The two first-year classes tackled two practice sets and were intro- duced to the basics of data processing. The advanced class completed three sets and worked with data processing in more depth, highlighting the year with a tour of Warsaw’s data processing center. Many films were shown to more easily explain the dif- ferent types of procedures in general business. Students were briefly introduced to the field of economics by study- ing micro-economics. Two workbooks besides the basic text were used. Business law students studied basic background of pub- lic law and applied their knowledge by working on case problems and in workbooks. Second semester students learned how the international and U.S. economic structure worked. They also had a special course on income tax. The words “Ready? Begin”, the click of a stop-watch, and a sometimes unexpected “STOP”, were the sounds us- ually emitted from the two Typing 1 classes. After the key- board had been mastered, they drilled for building ac- curacy and speed. Shorthand students used the Gregg method and, after memorizing all those squiggly lines, they worked for speed improvement, transcription, and theory. Receptionists Debbie and Vicki copy masters on the new duplicator. While on tour of Warsaw Community High School’s data processing section. Peg tries her hand at the computer. 22