South Central High School - Orbit Yearbook (Union Mills, IN)

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For students with an interest in farm- ing, South Central provides four years of high school agriculture. This course ranges from basic farming to advanced economic and animal husbandry. Research projects and field trips add to their class - room knowledge. The completion of these subjects will help prepare the student for a career in farming or further study in the field of agriculture. Jim Taylor is conscientiously at work sharpening a tool with a file in his Ag. class. Boys Prepare for Farming Career Don Nehl demonstrates the use of protective glasses as he applies his classroom knowledge to actual work with machines. Jerry Smoker and Bob Clark are shown working on a motor in Agriculture class.

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Students Earn as They Learn The D.C.E. (Diversified Co-operative Education) program, in its second year at South Central, has 29 juniors and sen- iors participating. The students attend classes in the mornings, and receive on- the-job training in the afternoons. They work in a vocational area which interests them and can prepare them for a career after high school. In their D.C.E. class every day, they can discuss the problems they encounter in their work, besides studying employer-employee relation- ships, social insurance, taxes, and the use of money earned. Each year the highlight of the year is the Employer-Employee banquet. The students take their respective employer or supervisor to dinner as a show of ap- preciation for their co-operative effort. The D.C.E. students are busily preparing for their sec- ond annual Employer-Employee Banquet. Here they are discussing some of the problems which arise in their work. This shows various D.C.E. students with their employ- ers at their banquet on April 3, 1968 Jim Prankus is showing a missionary from Indonesia a few basics about Soil and Tissue Testing. 19

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This year the English department at South Central has been greatly developed with new reading machines consisting of shadowscopes and portable pacers. The purpose of these machines is to increase the student's reading speed and compre- hension . Both junior high and high school students have used these machines as part of their development reading. The 7th and 8th grade students have performed group book report skits and participated in panel discussions. The high school students have spent many hours working with speeches and critical analysis of prose and poetry. Danny Wright, a member of the 7th grade English class, takes part in a skit presented to his classmates. Skits and Plays Enliven Classes Ray Rinker is rehearsing for a play which was pre- sented to the freshman class. Rosemary Schlundt improves her reading rate at the shadowscope in the junior English class. The senior class takes part in a discussion for Mr. Moore's senior English class.