St John Township High School - Echo Yearbook (Dyer, IN)

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WIELDING A PAINT BRUSH OR A BATON, MR. VIRGIL DeALBANI is equally at home. He develops the artistic side of Dyer students by teaching art and directing the glee club and band. In addition to being a competent landscapist (several of his oils hang in homes throughout the community,) he is an accomplished violinist, and has played with well known symphony orchestras. This year he has again proved his versatility by starting a class in mechanical drawing, offered especially for the benefit of those boys who are planning to study engineering. and Art PERSPECTIVE, PROPORTION, SHADING .. and other similar terms puzzle the minds of these young artists, bent over their drawing boards with such concentration. Christmas cards, landscapes, still lifes,— they all take shape under the watchful eye of Mr. DeAlbani, and give to the class members the thrill of doing creative work. 7

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CONVENTIONS. TREATIES. LAND GRANTS .... such terms are commonly used by the instructors in the social studies department. MRS. ELMA NASELROAD not only teaches civics, U. S. history, sociology, and economics, but she is also the sympathetic sponsor of the freshman class. MR. GLEN EBERLY, who is busier than the proverbial bee, teaches civics, and U. S. history, supervises the library, manages two study halls, coaches reserve basketball team, and assists Coaches Jacobs and Vanderkolk. Both Mrs. Naselroad and Mr. Eberly are new faces at Dyer High this year. We Study History TODAY'S EVENTS MAKE TOMORROW'S HISTORY. Not only do the Dyer history students study maps and charts of past events, as Diana Urbanczyk and Eileen Quinn are doing in the picture at left, but through special reports, debates, and panel discussions, they learn about current world problems and the responsibilities of their generation. They believe that as the youth of today they must train to be the leaders of tomorrow. 6

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NOW IF A EQUALS B AND . . . day after day Mr. Kermit Kerns struggles with the Dyer students, teaching them to think clearly, to reason logically, and to figger accurately. He also teaches physics, and still finds time to sponsor the senior class, guiding its members along the obstacle strewn path that leads to graduation. Before starting his teaching career at Dyer three years ago, he served two years with the navy, and a picture of him as a young sailor can be found elsewhere in this book. We Learn to Reason WHY WAS EUCLID EVER BORN? . . . Mike Sabo (left) is asking Bob Rakoczy the question that every geometry student eventually asks himself. Nevertheless, high school students today know far more mathematics than the wisest of the ancient Greeks .and there are infinitely more vocational opportunities for the graduate with the math major—teaching, research, accounting, insurance, and many others. Any senior who has lived through Mr. Kern's courses in freshman and advanced algebra, plain and solid geometry, and trig, may be sure he can go out into the world and find profitable employment. 8