Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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PAGE 16 ome conomics Ah, smell those delicious odors coming from the Home Economics kitchen, where the girls select, prepare, and serve interest- ing meals. In the clothing classes the girls worked for the Red Cross and have learned to choose, make, and wear correct clothes. Art in homes, home furnishings, and dress, is the foundation for Related Art. Problems of home-making are discussed in home liv- ing classes. ABOVE: Monica Lennox has a skirt hnng. HOME ECONOMICS FAC- ULTY: Mrs. Florence Porter, Mrs. Opal Conrad, Miss Dale Waterbury, Miss Lucy Mont- gomery. LEFT: .Printing students Wil- liam Kinnick, Lawrence Sand- berg, Frank Rhodes, and Dick Rhude are setting type for their magazine. ,qbfzcnfcng Printing classes write, set, and print a magazine called Student Prints at least once during each six weeks grade period, be- sides setting many kinds of commercial forms' Students also receive considerable instruc- tion on the linotype, job press, and cylinder press. A student may major in printing. During the last thirteen years the cylinder press and its operator, Charles J. Irby, shown here, have printed almost live million copies of the Daily Echo, 27,000 copies of the An- nual, 33,000 Christmas Echoes, and many other kinds of work, including the Blue Book, English Reading List, History of Mu- sic, Living and Learning Magazine, School City News, History of Football and Basket- ball, Outline of History, a Latin Book, and countless commercial forms. The Echo has been delivered to its agents on time every publication day for the last thirteen years.

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Jef Did you recognize your best girl friend's portrait in the Selleck Art Gallery? And did you see the Vaudeville programs, Christmas Echo covers, the Annual layouts, color wheels, and action poses? The floor plans from the mechani- cal drawing classes? These are all a part of the Art Department, now under the guidance of Charles Yeager. Returned veteran Francis How- ard was with the department for the fall semester. Miss Jane Mes- -sick sponsored the Croquis Club and the Annual art staff, and Miss Essie Long sponsored the Christ- mas Echo art staff. ABOVE: Marjorie Reed poses 'for Miss Jane Messiok's figure drawing class. ART FACULTY: Theodore Van Voorhees, Gordon O. Johnson, Orrin D. Thundere, Miss Jane Messick, Miss Essie Long, Francis Howard. Charles Yeager is acting head of the depart- ment. BELOW: Gordon J ohnson's Arts and Crafts class is tool- ing leather. PAGE 15

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C . USLC What is an athletic event Without the band or a year Without auditorium con- certs by the Ensemble, Orchestra, Girls' Glee Club, or other divisions of the music depart- ment? Yles, Where would the World be With- out music? Certainly Longfellow's Words have been proved true more than once. Music is the universal language of man- kind? M U S I C FACULTY: Mrs. Geraldine Clippinger, Will F. Wise, Robert J. Shultz, Mrs. Laura C. Moag. .QD gsm! cl This year the girls' physical education program was placed upon a point system of grading. The basis for these points is at- tendance, promptness, physical efficiency, and the practice of good health habits. The boys' physical education department offers participation in organized activities. Their aim is to influence general health and growth and physical and mental develop- ment. PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACULTY: Mrs. Mary C. Treichler, Roy V. Aberson, Thomas D. Woods, Miss Alice Jane Hessler. Seated: Russel S. Julius, athletic director. PAGE 17