Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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A finger-removing demon- stration? No, it's Senior Buddy Wolfe making a window frame in shop class. Showered in sawdust. Senior Roger Acton begins to create on the lathe. Thinking big. Senior Larry Biggs shows his finished king , formed from crude wood stock like the other members of his giant chess set. Did you see what he sawed and sold? Did you see what he designed and drew? PHS shop pupils produced projects for profit as they studied the values of tools, woods, and machinery. The boys, after selecting and purchasing their own wooden sup- plies, constructed anything they desired. Turning these chunks of wood into such finished products as tables, lamps, chairs, vanities, and even a giant chess set, the boys were free to give their projects away, sell them, or even play chess with them! Surrounded with right angles, rulers, compasses, and various pencils, PHS drafting pupils studied machine draft- ing, achitectural, and basic drafting. With these techniques in mind, they put their equipment to use and designed and sketched their own floor plans. Working on desks cluttered with right angles, pencils, and rules, the drafting boys sketch basement floor plans. Eye to eye With an eyeball staring him in the face. Sophomore David Scully takes a health test. 29 Hmmll That's eye- catching! exclaims Sophomore Health Student Mickey Long to Dave Blaschke.

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Healthy” Home-Ec and Analyzed and Outlined by PHS Students Home-ec students model and analyze their own clothes. Here Senior Jen- nifer Cummins poses on the home-ec room's mod- eling runway. Drafting Futures Big people and little houses—little people and .. Are you positive that bone is essentially essential? The big people with the little houses were the home-ec girls with their miniature houses that they created for in- terior design. The little people were the small brothers and sisters who taught class with their emotions and reactions during the child development studies. Yes, it's the PHS home-ec labs, geared not only for homemakers, but career girls, too. And then there's the bony girl that plays the organ. No wait—was that health class being discussed? Besides bones, organs, and diseases, sophomores studied person- ality and hygiene during the one semester course. New home-ec teacher? Little Darin Ping explains to home-ec students Nancy Medsker, Peggy Ping, and Carol Coy the real methods of child care during the class's child development training.

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Math and Business Pupils in World of Delving into the magical world of figures, angles, and equations, Quakers gained a broad mathematical back- ground ranging from essential math to trigonometry. Is this math essentially essential??? demands the es- sential math student, who gains an essential math educa- tion in his essential math class. Well, if it isn't a real number it must be fake? The mumbles from the algebra I and II classes, came with oc- casional groans as theorems, postulates, and definitions thrived in the algebra department. By my calculations, this triangle contains 387 degrees! boasted the geometry students who used right, obtuse, and acute angles in becoming challenged (and sometimes baf- fled) with the fundamentals of plane figures. If you know all the algebra theorems, and you place the sine over the tangent under the cosine by the geo- metrical triangle—your calculations might be correct! ex- plains the trigonometry and calculus students, who use all the other maths in solving their problems. After hurriedly shoving papers, pencils, and purses aside, typing I pupils concentrate on their typing drill during a 5-minute timewriting. Puzzling pyramid Juniors Nick Fowler, Kathy Gobosch, Judy Brown, and Karleen Frakes try to Find the area of this disassembled pyramid. Projecting the idea These giant hands on the screen get their message across in a big way as geometry teacher Miss Smith demonstrates the use of the sliderule with the help of the overhead projector. Dividing, dictating and duplicating, office ma- chines pupils work with many other kinds of office equipment besides the adding machine shown here. 30