Ossian High School - Oracle Yearbook (Ossian, IN)

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t If everyone tried as hard as Ronnie did they ' d be done in no time at all. By the way those things they ' re repairing are harrows. The projects undertaken by the boys taking a vocational high school course are many and varied. Each industrial art student is re- quired to have a home project — the high school boys make desks, cabinets, or chests, while the Junior High students make shelves or end tables. In advanced drafting the boys into engineering and architecture while the first and second semester students are trained in the fundamentals of mechanical and engineering drawing. Agricultural stu- dents study farm management, prices, soil judging, and repairs. They advance into electric welding, farm carpentry, animal nutrition, pasture varieties, and fertilizing techniques. OUR HANDS ARE TRAINED especially when you have Metal lathe work really isn ' t as hard as it looks, Mr. Hille as a teacher. ■With a t-square and bow pencil in hand the mechanical drawing class designs everything from simple tools to complex motors. When the Junior High shop boys aren ' t posing for pictures Mr. Hille trys to keep them busy.

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Who can ever forget dissecting frogs in biology? Miss Amsler must be an old pro. It doesn ' t stem to bother her a bit. The advanced algebra class is getting back one of their exams up, Denney, it can ' t be that bad. MATH AND SCIENCE CHALLENGE US It ' s experiment time once again in chemistry class. Please try to keep the contents of those test tubes off the ceiling. Experimenting begins in the seventh grade science classes. Before they ' re seniors they should be real pros. The values of a curriculum dominatecl by math and science are often underestimated. In this age of Sputniks great numbers of scientists and mathematicians are needed to compete against Russia in the race to outer space. But even the student who isn ' t interested in a scientific career will find math and science in- teresting. Algebra, plain and solid geometrj-, advanced algebra, and trig make up Ossian ' s math curriculum, while chemistr}-, physics, and biolog) ' are offered in the science field. Break- ing down compounds and analyzing them, trying to find the volume of a q-linder, or solving an equation are only a few of the problems that challenge the math and science student, so you can see that math and sci- ence aren ' t for the birds. Physics can be fun. experiments and all, ■Van Meter for a teacher. shen Tou have Mr.

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k €f K 9 ' 4 Don ' t worry, Sandy ' s not really sick. Mrs. Colder- bank is just showing the home nursing class how to turn a bed patient. FOR FUTURE VOCATIONS Learning to cook presents many problems but that doesn ' t stop the sophomore girls from trying new recipes. The senior girls haven ' t solved many world problems during their panel discussions, but they ' ve come up with some good points on family relations. Whirling egg beaters, humming sewing machines, sizzling pancakes, and the banging and clanging of pots and pans all go together to make up a four year home ec. curriculum. Junior high girls learn the basic rules of cooking and se -ing which they will need for the more advanced cooking and cloth- ing courses they will study in their freshman year. Home nursing is taught to the Sophomore girls while home planning and advanced clothing are featured in the junior year. Seniors study family relations and try a variet) ' of handicraft projects. These courses and projects help in making better homemakers of tomorrow. Although the freshman girls aren ' t sewing experts yet they ' re forever learning new techniques 19