Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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S NSI l ENGLISH . . . Our English Department now teaches English with a touch of democracy. An elected class president presides over each class and a secre- tary takes the roll. All this is to teach the students our democratic ways while they study Chaucer or Steinbeck. Interesting? You bet! It stimulates the students to do their work better. Besides the regular English curriculum a student can branch out into the fields of Public Speaking, Debate, Journalism, Dramatics, and Business English. Many extracurricular activi- ties are sponsored by the department along these lines, such as the Echo, Fiction Club, Radio Workshop, and Dramatics clubs. LIBRARY . . . Shakespeare? Emerson? Our library has these and many more in its twenty thousand have to hunt all the Way to volumes. Here, a pupil doesn't China to find a bookg an assist- ant librarian will help him. Mrs. Cavanagh, our librarian, Plenty Of Experience Must Come In The Classroom Before A Student akes The Last Eclitionn . . . Upper-Freshmen begin grammar study. Lower-Comp. class holds panel discussion takes great pride in one of the finest high school libraries in the country. Right-Shakespeare draws some smiles.

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To Carry Out The Editor s Assignments First row: Miss Bertha Mallory, Miss Marie Moran, Miss Jane Messick, Mrs. Mary Lytle, Mrs. Cena Morgan, Mrs. Frances Lichten- walter, Mrs. Annalee Webb Miller. Second row: Miss Minnie Lloyd, Miss Doris Manuel, Kenneth Peterman, Miss Ruth Lewman, Miss Essie Long, William McAlister, Eugene C. Hilliker. Third row: William Johnson, Harold H. Negley, Colin Lett. First row: Mrs. Hope Bedford Nevitt, Mrs. Laura C. Moag, Miss Ellen Ocker, Miss Mar- garet Montgomery, Miss Dorothy Peterson, Mrs. Kathryn K. Smith, Mrs. Rachel Schu- macher. Second row: C. C. Shoemaker, H. H. Siemers, Arthur G. Shull, Russell V. Sigler, Bryant K. Millikan, Miss Margaret B. Pier- son, Mrs. Louise Steiger, Robert Shultz, Rob- ert L. Nipper. First row: Mrs. Kate Steichmann, Mrs. Anna Oertle, Mrs. Blanche Rawlings, Miss Louise Reiter, Mrs. Grace B. Vitz, Miss Hazel Whis- enand, Mrs. Mary Treichler. Second row: Miss Mabel Washburn, Orrin D. Thundere, Mrs. Helen H. Smith, Miss Eleanor Dee Theek, Mrs. Elsie Waterman, Mrs. Madge Temperley, Mrs. Gertrude Weathers, Miss Mona Jane Wilson, Mrs. Eulah Vos. Third row: Will F. Wise, Charles G. Yeager, Daniel Welch. With A Competent Business Force

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HISTORY'.., In the land of milk and honey, In the central West, There we have our hist'ry section Ranked among the best. And our History Department really is tops. It not only teaches in the class room, but takes many field trips to show the students, iirst- hand, the machinery of our government and economic life. This year the History classes used a new plan of study, as each room was equipped with its own books, tables, and study facilities. A mock election of state officers was held to ac- quaint the students with the voting machine, and each History pupil cast his ballot on the machine. Upper right-Government class hears pupils' views. Lower right-Mr. Negley gives term papers the once-over. MATH... How high is our flagpole? How large is our campus? These are just a few of the projects our Math Department carries out every year in its classes. No, a student doesn't climb the Hagpole or measure the length of the campus. It's all done with a transit. Besides these things, our Math students place high in the Math Contests at I. U. every year. The Math Department offers a Wide range of instruction, with many different courses and the best of equipment for them. Instruments for surveying and computation of measurements are among the line equipment in this depart- ment. Upper left-Sophomores learn the fundamentals of geometry. Lower left- Multiply the following quantities. H ,,,