Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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learn skills with practice As he earnestly works on his project for wood shop, Ken Urban discovers experience is the best teacher. The reproduction of intricate designs . . . develop- ing manual skills . . . the smell of gasoline and oil . . . making useful objects in wood shop . . . sparks flying . . . the fundamentals of machine care . . . pounding metal . . . training to be mechanics . . . the shop department offers a wide variety of useful subjects to interested boys. Wearing protective goggles, Allan Cunningham operates the metal shop grinding machine.

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From jellymaking to jigsawing, students The smell of freshly-baked cookies ... the steady pace of a sewing machine . . . the snip of scissors cutting out pictures of furniture . . . the throb of a patient’s pulse . . . these are the sensations of today that are only a practice for tomorrow. Thinking of the many skills she ' ll use to transform a length of yellow doth to a couturier designed coat, Karen Hofmann begins by cutting out each piece. After drawing a houseplan. Vat Kellenberger and Miss Carlson evaluate the design. By actual experience in foods class, Cheryl Warded and Wendy Malykiewicz prepare for the time when they’ll cook about a thousand meals a year. —

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The thrill of solving an equation . . . con- structing triangles ... the square root of two . . . THINK . . . passing six years of high school math . . . cos ( A + B) = cosA CosB- sinA sinB ... the structure of a parabola . . . the base five number system . . . finding the rate of change . . . new math evolves from the old. Mr. Yeoman, geometry Inch by inch, math’s a cinch Mr. Rainford, math department head