Portland High School - Tifoon Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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ss Q9 is while studying furniture and antiques, visited the Quality Furniture Store and the Hoosier Gift Shoppe. In March the entire home economics department served the Teachers Association ban- quet. With the freshman foods classes, Mr. Macklinls health class attended the re- opening of the Schatz Bakery. A very interesting trip was taken to the Epilep- tic Village at New Castle last fall by Miss lVIcCarty's health class. 5 'Wits Joy Arn, James Roush, and Jackie Arn discuss General MacArthur's defense of Bataan as Miss Current conducts a history class. CLeftJ A new metal working machine, re- cently installed in the Annex, is operated by Everett Evans. tRight7 As a vocation- al agriculture project, N o r m a n Bosworth, Robert Carroll, Wil- lard Miller, and Carl Brumm demonstrate testing milk. Many agriculture students took an active part in the County Corn Husk- ing Contest and attended the Purdue Swine and Field Crop Day. Last sum- mer the vocational agriculture class planted one thousand trees and shrubs. Indeed, learning by class room dis- cussion was augmented by practical projects. Students of Portland High School learned from books, but they also learned from actual experience in real life.

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jAing:i e .gimbealf COMING back from summer vacation, students of Portland High School were delighted to find a completely renovated building with gleaming walls and spotless ceilings. To accommodate the installation of new metal working machinery, a separate shop, known as the Annex. had been built near the southwest corner of the building proper. The former shop room, redecorated, be- came a convenient music room. For the first time in its life, the library oc- cupied quarters of its own. Now con- nected to the study hall by a door, the two northeast corner rooms were trans- formed into attractive and inviting reading rooms. Downstairs, rooms 5 and 3, formerly used as English class rooms by Miss White and Mr. Farris, Mechanical drawing interests the McLaughlin tvuns, Lloyd and Lowell, who defy distinction cvcn by the closest observers. now were occupied by the commercial department. The first trigonometry class since 1936 was organized. Practical application of mathematical principles included figur- ing the arc of the South Meridian Street Bridge and calculating the dis- tance between Honolulu and the Philip- pines. A sociology class tabulated the re- sults of I. Q. tests made upon them- selves, and found a few geniuses , sev- eral superiors and many 'fnormalsf' Junior English classes published an Easter edition of the Megaphone With the increase of the present emergency. history and civics classes developed renewed interest in the fast moving current events which made each day's happenings almost ancient history within twenty-four hours. When war was declared, classes were dismissed in order that all students might hear the broadcast. Toward the end of the year, visits also were made to several county offices. As a climax to their study of foods, freshman foods classes served a series of dinners to faculty members and the school board. The art-in-the-home class, In freshman cooking class, Wanda Gamester and Margaret Landon test the biscuits they have baked.

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4Uppur loft? Marjorie Vannoy, public-spirited se- nior, buys first dofcnsv stamp from Mary Cath- rrinr- Platt. Mr. Brubukcr's ofiico girl. fllppcr right? Lorene Cline and Thelma Miller, freshman waitresses. :irc serving consomme for ai noon luncheon. IC1-ntvrh Fight! Fight! was the all season cry from tho ycll lm-ada-rs. Pcggy Edwards, Junior Bond. and Pat Bziddcrs. , .t W si Q. it ur5awil1' once uf' .nglll Yhli 16 hav? CLower lofti The Stars and Stripes now hang in every classroom. a gift of the Hi-Y's. Bill Schoon- lcin ton laddcrb and Bill Smith hc-rv hang tho one in tho chemistry room. tLowcr cvntcri LaVaughn Stout sets the office clock up one hour, as Portland High School goes on war time. CLowcr righti G. R.'s busily knitting for thi- Rod Cross are Margaret Current. Janvl Wilkinson Cstandingi. .loan Grafmillvr, and Martha Castle. 5 ga Vfl js--.. x to :V ,,.,-ff