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

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The World of Business is Ever Expanding POTENTIAL SECRETARIES need to know the technique of typing for use in future employment. Then they strive to increase both their accuracy and speed. Linda Sain is tran- scribing a letter she has taken in shorthand. LEARNING COOD CO-ORDINATION of the fingers takes time, as members of the clerical practice class soon discover. Students learn how to operate office machines in this class. IN THE SIMULATED ATMOSPHERE of a shoe store, Floyd MacDonald is selling a pair of shoes to Jill- Listen- berger, while Ken MacDonald looks on. Salesmanship V class presents general merchandising principles as well as teaching students good tech- niques of buying and selling. Pag S»xt n

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We Understand” MISS NARCISI TELLS her Spanish students about the El Camino Real, The Royal Road to Knowledge.” The first year of Latin acquaints the students with the grammatical funda- mentals, with emphasis placed on sentence translation and vocabulary study. The second year deals with the translation of historical accounts of Rome. Spanish students learn customs along with the study of the language. In the first year the emphasis is placed on gram- mar and vocabulary building. The second year is devoted to translation, and Spanish is spoken entirely in class to give the stu- dents practice in Spanish loquacity. THE WELL-KNOWN “X” helps remind Latin stu- dents who refuse to project their voices of the importance of good speech techniques in all classes. Mr. Ruff gives Ruth Luddy the “full penalty when she couldn’t be heard during recitation. Page Fifteen

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Training For Citizen Responsibility AROUND THE WORLD in two se- mesters is the theme of this geography class. Finding that locating places studied makes the course more in- teresting are Cary Puett, Frank Yates, Ed Heindricks, Sue Krohmann, Mari- lyn Mayden, and teacher, Mr. Nelson. IN SOCIOLOCY VIII Mr. Croucher guides students in objec- tive thinking about the relationship of people of all cultures to our society. THE GOVERNMENT CLASSES spent an afternoon at the City Hall to learn the role of various city departments in relation to the over-all functioning of our city government. Studying a map of the Hammond area are Jerry Francis, Judy Svenning- sen, and Ann Pecelin.