River Forest High School - Ingot Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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BUSINESS DEPT. TRAINS STUDENTS FOR FUTURE The business world of today need? many skilled em- ployees. Skills in business are developed through class- room instruction and practical application. Students on the business curriculum take such cours- es as typing, shorthand, retailing and salesmanship, and office machines. For practical application, students may elect to work for office practice credit in the ele- mentary, junior high or senior high school offices. A new course, which prepares a student for work as a medical secretary, was opened to advanced business students and was taught by Mrs. Laura Langley. Office machines class includes instruction on adding machines, duplicating machines, calculators and the tele- fax. |4 usLiS MR. FRED BAKER MISS JANICE TINCHER MRS. KATHLEEN GOLDMAN MRS. LAURA LANGLEY The steady noise of clicking keys and sliding carriages fills the typing II class. In the rear of the room Mrs. Langley helps a student with a question on the assignment. 15

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Mr. Tippett leads and encourages discussion on the Civil War among the juniors in his United States history class. The students divided themselves into North and South and debated the reasons for fighting the war. HISTORY REQUIREMENT MOVED TO FRESHMAN YEAR American history, world history, sociology, civics and economics were the courses offered by the social science department during the 1965-66 school year. Beginning with the 1965-66 school year all freshmen were required to take United States history, thus eliminat- ing it in their junior year. Seniors were required to have civics and economics in order to complete graduation ’re- quirements. Sociology covered abundance and poverty, crime and delinquency, mental health, and mental illness, and mar- riage and divorce. To aid in teaching the courses maps, globes, films and overhead projectors were used. MR. JOHN LoBOUNTY MISS MARILYN BRAND MR. J. RONALD HUGHES United States government, taught by Mr. LaBounty, was a required subject for all graduating seniors. 14

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MRS. LORETTA NEIDIGH Boys are offered an extensive foods program which places many in the restaurant and quantity MRS. JANNON CLARK foods preparation business after graduation. They also learn that cooking can be fun. Mrs. Clark explains the basics of good sewing to Rose Sepanski and Audrey Thompson. MISS DONNA PHILLIPS MRS. MARGARET HOLTH HOME ECONOMICS DEPT. USES VOCATIONAL APPROACH Numerous things are required to be a successful homemaker. Meal planning, budgeting and sewing are some of the most important activities. Alterations and tailor techniques were taught in tailoring class, while a combination of cooking, sewing and budgeting were taught in homemaking classes. Two types of nursing courses were offered in the home eco- nomics department this year. Home nursing and child care were developed as prerequisites for a more extensive curricu- lum of practical nursing. Students of both nursing classes must have had at least one year of home economics classes. Also offered this year by the home economics department were foods for boys classes taught by Mrs. Loretta Neidigh. Right: Georgia Bjerkness takes Candy Phelps ' temperature as school nurse Miss Phillips looks on and Lynn Gear adjusts the hospital bed in a practical nursing class. 4 ■EDaii h