Shields High School - Patriot Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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lr. Marvin Dyer liancis back bookkeeping work sheets Exasperating And Entertaining English soon impressed upon us how very definitely il was a foundation subject. Some of us thought we ' d never learn to tliagram a s.mtence or tell the difference between an adjective or an adverb. We tried to learn to be efficient accountants in book- keeping class; but sometimes, no matter how hard we tried, our books just wouldn ' t balance. Of course we knew that these books were only fiction . Yet we ab- sorbed all the knowledge possible and hoped that when the time came to us in actual bookkeeping jobs, the figures would do what they were supposed to do. Judy Aslicraft diagrams a sentence for Miss Lillie Fosbrink

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Good morning, this is your sludenl news reporter — Barbara Fill, Morton Prime, Shirley Coins, Sally Birge, and Carl Quinn In Classes We Found That Subjects Were Educational, Classes, however, took care of most of our time. Speech was a practical subject and fun, too. The Sat- urday morning broadcasts made us pretty familiar with the radio station, WJCD. And our plays! — we had such fun making comedians or villains out of our classmates.

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« Steady-hand Jim Hudson pours while Dick Mattox checks proceJure. Mr. Robert Bell assists Murella Purlee and Harlan Bergsieker and Jim Bova work by themselves. Practical, Useful Courses Were Offered Thai physics is definitely a subject for mechanical minds was impressed upon us early in the year. Mr. Robert Bell ' s patience help?d even the most unmechanical to learn about weights and balances, electric hook-ups, and expansion and contraction of metals. Home nursing was a subject that girls could master just as physics is usually the boys sub- ject. Among other things we learned that the nurs3 should be calm, cool, collected, and cheerful.