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

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HOME EC Students Learn For Better Or For Worse Clothing, foods, boys ' foods, home management, and home nursing courses are offered to students in- terested in home economics. In clothing girls start making easier garments such as skirts and blouses, then progress to more difficult pieces such as suits and coats. In the foods courses the girls are taught diet, menus, marketing, and food qualities as well as the actual preparation of recipes. Home management helps the upperclassman girl to understand her future responsibilities as a wife and mother. She also learns how to plan her home furnishings and how to plan her home efficiently. Vivian Buldak, Sharron Christenson, Lord Baut, Bonnie Cripe, Janet Diehl, Janet Galen, and Judy Hutsler practice techniques in home nursing class. These girls are in the midst of a ' self- fashioned ' style show in their clothing class. 27

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GYM Classes Test Strength And Agility One, two . . . Three, four . . . In the system employed by Morton all the state- required physical education hours are taken by the student in one year, instead of four. Students learn sportsmanship as well as the rules governing popu- lar games. Girls play softball, basketball, volley- ball, and soccer during the course of the year. Boys learn how to exercise, and play baseball and basketball. Agile? girls play basketball. 26

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COMMERCIAL AND PRACTICAL Train Students For Cleona Fields practices her shorthand. Since many students prefer to go right into the working world after graduation, Morton provides a liberal business course. General business, business law, bookkeeping, sales- manship, typing, shorthand, and clerical practice courses are offered. What has Gail Zea done that Mr. Alexander should have to look in his grade book at this time? Clerical practice students are busy at work on the office machines found in this first floor room. 28