Silver Creek High School - Silver Leaves Yearbook (Sellersburg, IN)

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ttUnder here lies the corpus callosum. Do you know that, B. Maples? inquires Mr. Demon. Explaining the blood circulation to her freshman classmates t is C. Whitehead. Health stresses fitness as iiWatch your step, Jennyfi N. Frederick says as they model before a girlsi health class. The endless discoveries in science make it almost impossible for students to become acquainted with all of them. In the two years of health and safety, these discoveries are studied. This year a torso 0f the human body was pur- chased to help students learn how the organs and systems in the body work, the functions of each system, and what organs make up the systems. Learning by doing adds reality and interest for the students in first aid. Pointers are given to help the students in various phases necessary to the de- velopment of a well-rounded character. Other im- portant topics are offered concerning habits and emotions, safety in the home, and good grooming. In becoming acquainted with these aspects of physical and mental health, the students learn what each contributes to the growth of an individual.

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The girls in the non-major senior course honored their mothers and several faculty members at a luncheon. Girls majoring in home economics receive instruc- tion in Clothing, foods, and home nursing. There are seven phases of home ec. Each has a part in training a girl for the multiple roles she. will have as a homemaker. Senior girls who are non-majors in home ec. have the opportunity to obtain valuable information con- densed into a one-year course. Items which the first class of this type studied were sewing and cooking, interior decoration, insurance, home financing, child care, and money and time budgeting. No longer is home economics merely learning to cook and sew, but it is a preparation for multiple necessities, research, teaching, and dietics, we are called upon to know about in life. It leads students into a large number of careers and new occupations of life as well. Home Ec. offers new course hWe did fairly good even if I do say so myself, L. Black tells J. Bray after they finish a flower arrangement. hBe careful you don,t cut the wrong threadf' L. Hardsaw tells P. Meek while 5. Leist sews laboriously at the machine.

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Phx'sival fitness is SO important that the national aovermmm is promoting it in schools??? everyday rife. Silwr Creek shares the resp0n.51b111ty of thls through ite excellent physical educatlon program. Both HM and new games are played in striving for the gmil nf physical fitness; individual and team sports Mvalr stronger bodies and develop muscular co-onlinuiiun. Social grace and friendliness are by- products gained when the students engage in square dancing and round dancing. All right, girls, get that toss. P.E. falls in step with nation e'Wow! 'Hml shrimp really packs a wallopV shouts B. Prichurd m A. Lowell releases a potential TKO punch. Testing his acrobatic skills in phys. ed. is M. Munk. This isnet as easy as it looks. Try it sBmetime.