Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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These girls in home economics are about to enjoy a meal they have prepared. Business, Homemaking, and Engineering The aim of the vocational arts de- partment at PHS is to present valuable courses for career stu- dents . The detailed sketching in drafting and the perfection in wood shop train students for a useful future. PHS has future plans to construct even better facilities for the ever growing industrial arts department. Practicing the uses of sewing, cook- ing, and designing, the girls at PHS are furthering their knowledge of domestic skills. After they have completed their home economics courses, these girls will know the fundamentals for provid- ing a good home life. At their drawing tables, drafting students con- centrate on doing sketches accurately and neatly. 25

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Linda Dwinell and Becky Albertson mimeograph programs for the school in a business machines course, an elective in the business department. With commercial courses be- coming more and more popu- lar among the students, PHS has developed a fine business depart- ment of typing, bookkeeping, short- hand, and office machines. Speed, accuracy, and timing play a main role in the business courses. The students acquire the ability to type, check figures, and operate mimeograph and ditto machines efficiently. The students also attain practical experience in business management by running the bookstore. In the future years, PHS plans to ex- pand its business department to acco- modate the needs of the rapidly changing business world. PHS’ers Are Ready for the World of Mr. Pike checks Margie Homan's words per minute for speed and net words for accuracy on a timed writing in a typing class. 24

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Mathematicians Calculate and Construct With the large model slide rule, Jim Gentry and Pam Downey illustrate the solution of a problem. PHS realizes the challenge of our space-age and offers a complete program of mathe- matics. Armed with slide rule and protrac- tor, logarithm charts and formulas, PHS'ers determinedly set out to meet this challenge. By conquering the Py- thagorean theorem and logs, they are acquiring a logic and reasoning vital to our world. Plane Geometry, which deals with plane figures, teaches students to rea- son with basic physical relationships. Algebra II completes the Algebra I course, and constructs a basis for further math. Trigonometry incor- porates the fundaments of and correlations between parts of the tri- angle, and College Algebra prepares students for college math. In the future, PHS plans to expand its math program and add even more advanced courses in its curriculum. PHS realizes today's challenge and meets it. Plane geometry is the study of the surfaces of various polygons. These students examine embroidered designs of figures and the plane surfaces of geometric solids. 26