Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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Str-r-etch! Carol Smith (left) does that in the school library. Why are the good books on the top shelf for short people and on the bottom shelf for giants? Speech class? Yep, that’s what the men said. But this time it really swings as Mike Flowers (right) gives the beat, demonstrating his drum set. Whether f-i-s-h is pronounced fish” or feesh depends on whether the speaker lives north or south of the Mason-Dixon line — just one little peculiarity of American pronunciation. Such funny-sounding accents and colloquial slang were pondered and chuckled over by members of various English classes. Other classwork straying from the usual book-peering was the evaluation of students’ themes by their classmates. The words and characters of Shakespeare’s immortal plays were pored over and analyzed in the advanced senior Shakespeare class, taught by Mr. William Langdon. Thought themes” were written at To read a book for a report, Janice Prosser (left) substitutes an electric light for a fire. Abraham Lincoln had to lie on the hearth before the blazing fire to be able to read. 20

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Opera's First Lady, Miss Roberta Peters, was interviewed in the lobby of the Hotel Roberts by two Munsonian reporters Sally Maitland, junior, and Jane Brown, senior. A new method is tried by Brian Settles, junior, as he records Spanish in the language booth. We Read, We Gab and We Experiment All This To Fill Us Full of ‘Vital Facts’ • •

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Field Trips and Demonstrations Add To Book-Type Facts of English Classes times by the students, attempting to glean the various philosophies hidden in the ’Bard of Avon’s” works. Creative ability (or just plain ham, really) was the keynote to success in the dramatics and speech classes. The pupils constructed model stage sets, and played Shakespeare, writing their own plays and skits. The inside story on how a newspaper and yearbook are painstakingly put together is told in the newswriting class. Students get a taste of the newspaper life themselves, receiving their own reporting beats concerning newsy functions of the school. New teaching recruits in the English Department this year were Mr. Morry Mannies and Mr. Max Kelley. Printing press operation is shown by Mr. Robert LeMaster, (second from left) and Trade School printing student Howard Clary (center) to three interested newswriting students Bev Morris, Janice Perry and John Mitchell. r ».