Mentone High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Mentone, IN)

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PRACTICAL EDUCATION A 1970 Chevy played a vital role in aiding the thirty students in driver education classes. With a bottle of tran- quillizers in hand, Mr. Neal supervised students through six hours of driving and thirty hours of required classroom in- struction. Basic fundamentals were practiced and mastered but the main goal of the class was to keep the car on the road. Instructor Neal mentioned that some students tried to lighten the mailman’s load. Physical education classes were very active. Students participated in baseball, volleyball, basketball and tumbling. Mr. Neal’s goal was for his classes to average above the National Norms on the PRESIDENT’S Physical Fitness Test. Anxious, starry-eyed, fourth-year-home-ec girls spent the year planning such things as their weddings and home furnishings. Child development and care dominated the course for juniors and sophomores, while freshmen spent the year preparing food and sewing clothes. Mrs. Carpenter was given a silver tray by her senior home-ec girls when she retired at the end of the first se- mester. Miss Azpell then took over and continued teaching the students to become better cooks, wives, and mothers of the future. Unknown to Kim, Connie adds that certain something. A special Valentine’s Day cake comes from Norma’s oven. 27

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EXPERIENCE TEACHES BUILDING BODY AND SKILLS BY DOING— Basic Training skills are enjoyed as frosh P.E. boys do the popular “stomper. 26

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AUTO MAINTENANCE ROUNDS VOCATIONS An auto mechanics’ quartet of Brant, Jim, Jerry, and Jeff try to keep their engine in tune. Mentone High School expanded its vocational schedule by adding to its curriculum a comprehensive auto mech- anics course. An old converted bus shed was the site of this auto- motive, paint, metal, welding, and electrical shop which in- cluded the latest available equipment. Mr. Richard Rals- ton, the automotive instructor was most interested in teaching the boys minor repair and tune-up work. He be- lieved these skills to be most essential in becoming a well- rounded mechanic. The building in which the boys worked was equipped with every tool imaginable, from a small wrench or screwdriver to a $750 air compressor. Freslunen took drafting I the first semester and wood- working I the second semester. The sophomores made use of the new metal and electrical shop. They had Metals I the first semester and Beginning Electricity the second. The ju- niors and seniors had a combined class of advanced shop, working on a schedule including Woodworking II, Drafting II and Metalworking II. After arrival at school, building trades students boarded another bus that took them to a lot a half mile east of Ak- ron on county road 1000. Class time lasted for the first three periods of the day. Workers laid foundation, com- pleted wiring and plumbing, and put in windows-every- thing related to house construction except finish the ceil- ings which were done by contractors from Silver Lake. Shortly before noon the class returned to Mentone and Ak- ron boys worked the remaining three periods of the day. 28