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

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T. Everitt helps M. Hass with her lines for the sr. play. The drama class is a one semester course that can only be taken once. Mrs. Fulcher, drama instructor, grades primarily on improvement and emphasizes class discussions. The full course in the first semester consists of three dialogues, one monologue, and a iunior play. The 1 second semester class is basically the same with the exception of the senior play, given in the spring. The cast is chosen by having senior tryouts. These seniors must be willing to put out their best in order to produce the best play possible. The students are not required to have taken the drama course. i The drama class took trips to the Actors Theatre of Louisville during the entire school year. This helped the students by showing them what professional acting is all about. M. Schuler, substituting for a missing ir., and V. Stotts in the iunior play.

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...-....,..,, , v Everyone admires the work done for shop exhibit. Accurate drawing must be done to receive an A. John Miller concentrates hard as he puts his ability to work. Shop and agriculture are two of the many selective classes students can take. Girls as well as boys. Many subiects come under the title of shop. There are woodworking, drafting, metals, leather work, and electricity. First year shop usually starts with wood. Learning handtools, different types of wood, machinery work with wood. As a student takes 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year shop, he developes his skill with wood and develops the usage of different materials. At the end of the year, there is a proiect exhibit held in the shop room. This is where the students can show off the proiects he worked so hard on during the school year. Agriculture is a class which describes itself. Its main objective is to relate the students to what they can and need to use on the farm. Some of the different programs in the agriculture class are as follows: training the boys in metal work, repairing machinery, woodworking related to farming, and different types of welding. They have also studied crop, management in livestock, and how soil is related to plant life. 25

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, z Violet Skeens gains experience in the office. Many of today's students are interested in office iobs and secretarial work;-The$e iobs required a lot of work in the business curriculum of school. In shorthand, the theory of words is studied, they learn dictation, write manuscripts and set up to type business '3. letters. Beginning typing classes learn the key board by the touch method, type manuscripts, business letters. in the adv. classes, the students improve their ability to type all kinds of situations. A lot to learn in a short time. This is a good description of office practice. Filing, letter writing, and iob applications must be learned well in order to even think about a iob in an office. Then there are machines which the students have to learn to use. These machines consist of the dictaphone, ten-key adding machines, electronic calculators, rotary calculators, spirit duplicator, and the mimeograph machine. Clik, Clak, Slam, Bang, Oh Heck, Ding Wilma Baird sharpens her typing skills through practice. Business Education 27