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

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Sophomore Mike Branson typed by the trick of the trade, accord-ing to the bulletin board constructed by Margery Sparks, student teacher. The bulletin board, entitled “Keys to Successful Typing ” encouraged typers to think before pecking. Upsy-daisy! And so goes Melinda Lyons, boosted into the ozone by classmate Marsha If ray. Such “parallels’ are common among the feminine gymnasts who discover in Miss Katharine King's P.E. classes that even girls have muscles. Some Courses Taught Manual and muscular skill was stressed in several departments at Central from gym classes to Trade School. While some learned speed and accuracy in industrial machinery, others practiced rebounding and somersaults. Diving skills and special strokes were practiced in swimming classes that were aimed to teach all prospective mermaids to he swimmers, although drenched hair was sometimes a necessary evil. “Scairdy-cats” sometimes even became the severest victims of “Sea Fever” after that first landlubbing tendency subsided. Business education students had to know their equipment down to the last key in order to operate office machinery well. Efficiency is an important word in any office, and business ed. teachers stressed it in training Max Zimmerman. the helpful business machine student, shows classmate Cindy Stephens how to total a column of figures speedily on one of several types of intricate machines.

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Do Later for Families of Their Own While the carpentry classes built the shells of houses, the home economics girls learned to make them homes. For example, the problems that face wives and mothers in every day living are studied in marriage and family relations, child guidance and development and home management. Class members even brought models to demonstrate bathing the baby and other child care techniques. Fashion magazines were consulted for ideas in clothing classes. Chic designs and patterns made it possible for the girls to stop at nothing short of high style. New fabrics and accessories give their clothes class. You look like this if you’re in style, according to Miss Suzanne Sasser, of the V. of Cincinnati, who discusses fashions with Marguerite Leach, Mary Troutner, and Johnnie Taylor. Do it egg-zactly like this, and you’ll have a perfect cake. Cheryl Perkins starts the procedure in foods class under the watchful eyes of classmates Linda Richmond and Linda Buffalo. 23

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Receiving ttvo new 1963 Buicks for use in the driver education classes this year are James Davidson, driver education teacher; John Paul Huffman, principal; Paul Abel, local dealer and car donor; and Carl Adams, driver education teacher. Us Co-ordination of Mind and Muscle future office personnel. Timed writings are common to typing classes as well as tests given by a university on a nation-wide basis. Safety belts were installed in the driver ed. cars given to Central by the Paul Abel Motors Company, which has donated use of cars since 1954. Since 1947 when it first started, the course has undergone several changes. The enrollment has changed from three classes to the present 13. The first driver ed. students spent six weeks alone on shifting gears, a problem that doesn’t face students now. who get their license six weeks earlier. Book rent doesn't stop at texts but goes for car upkeep, gas, oil, testing and devices. When students aren’t behind the wheel, they’re buried in a driving manual. Making a damaged chair good as new is Don Rutherford. Trade School sheet metal student, who. properly goggled, is brazing the broken joints of the chair. 25