Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Page 16 THESE FUTURE home- makers are paying close attention to Sharon Brant, who is demonstrating the proper way to wash a baby, in Miss Laura Gib- son’s home nursing class. Home Economics Classes Mortonites Learn How To Cook and Sew THESE GIRLS in a clothing class are learning to save money by sewing their own clothes under the watchful eye of Miss Anna Evanoff, their instructor. JOHN BREGER certainly isn ' t a bit interested in that masterpiece which Jim Bobowski and Dave Herring are taking out of the oven in Miss Jacqueline Martine’s boys’ foods class. Home economics classes in the department headed by Miss Jacqueline Martine taught young persons the skills needed to run a home. In clothing classes, girls learned to make separates and full garments by the use of machines, patterns, and different materials. The home management course was a study of family and community relationships, child development, and home furnishings; and home nursing emphasized the wise use of community health facilities while enabling students to learn the principles of first aid and child growth. Foods classes were designed for students to learn about nutrition and the buying, preparing, and serving of food.

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The Music Department, headed by Miss Barbara Miller and John Melton, and the Art Department, headed by Anthony Wauro, familiarized Morton stu- dents with the fine arts. The high school vocal music class acted as a training course for the choir, an organization, like the band, with the status of a class. The orchestra, however, met but twice a week; therefore, an orchestra member who didn’t belong to the band had to practice individ- ually for an hour daily if he hoped to get an instrumental music credit. Bandmen could also practice individually daily, although they didn’t get any credit for this practice. High school art, the only class in its department, was an introductory course based on a variety of art mediums. EINS, ZWEI, drei, spiel!” Band and orchestra director John Melton spent a good part of his time giving individual lessons to young musicians like Nahcy Hoffman, shown with the bass viol. THESE STUDENTS in Anthony Wauro’s high school art class certainly are intent on their artistic creations. Mortonites may take high school art for as many semesters as their programs allow. Music, Art Classes Fine Arts Broaden Students ' Interest Page 15 MISS BARBARA Miller accompanies a quartet of boys while the rest of the members of her high school music class listen closely. The class served as a training course for high school choir.

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Page 17 MARK MATOV1NA, Daryle Riegle, and Don Knieriman learn how to make blueprints under the guidance of Frank Con- cialdi in their mechanical drawing class. Practical Arts Classes and Prepare for Jobs in Calumet Industry The Practical Arts Department, of which Robert Fraser is the chair- man, prepared Morton boys for jobs in Calumet area industries. Mechanical drawing students were taught the use of mechanical drawing instruments and ways to do several different types of draw- ing. Students in woodworking classes learned skills in developing projects for the school and home, studying such things as making joints and gluing, turning, and finishing woo d. Senior boys could take job-and- trade information, which was di- vided into four parts: an appraisal of individual job interests, a gen- eral and an individual study of occupations, and a survey of job opportunities in the Calumet Re- gion. INLAND STEEL Co. pamphlets seem to be interesting Bob Jeppeson, Charles Corn- well, Tom White, Larry Bedene, and Rich- ard Shawver in Phil Robaska’s job-and- trade class. WOODWORKING TEACHER Robert Fraser is helping Bill Luchene to saw a piece of wood while other members of the class look on. i