Taylor High School - Helio Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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From dictation to dictators 7-r.,,,. waaiii ll C oo l y In business classes, students learned successfully to take dicta- tion. Business students also learn to type and to operate adding, trans- cribing, calculating, and duplicating machines. Several students gained practical experience by typing for teachers and working in the oHice. Besides learning such social stud- ies topics as cities and dictators, from a book, students also learned by dis- cussing current events, inventing games, and talking to government officials. Mrs. Steiner's government stu- dents met government ollicials El- wood Hillis, Alan Zirkle, Harry Foreman, and Larry Conrad. Stu- dents played History Password and debated on foreign policy. The mock convention was the biggest under- taking of the social studies department. b a!Don McKeller interviews 20th Century Problems, students on Teen Talk. b!Larry Lindley responds quicldy to Mr. Devore's question. C!Covemment student jose Can- tillo shakes hands with Indiana Secretary of State Lan'y Conrad. 77

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C The social studies department took advantage of a major election year by staging a mock Democratic Na- tional Convention. For two weeks, students were sub- jected to propoganda and paid po- litical announcements. On con- vention night, the gym became National Democratic Convention Hall. State delegates heard nomi- nating speeches, staged demonstra- tions, and cast their votes. With much contesting and changing of votes, it took three ballots to deter- mine Ted Kennedy the winner. afjane Shirley, alias Ted Kennedy, accepts the Democratic presidential nomination. b!Convention participants listen enthusiasti- cally to nominations. c!Neil Kuhlman and Gregg Townsend hold a poster of one of the convention's more popular candidates, George Wallace. Two weeks later, Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt. d!K'Sometimes I wonder who is president- Richard Nixon or Henry Kissinger! shouted chairman Mr. Cronk in a rousing speech. ef Chisholm backers stage a spontaneous dem- onstration. f!Amid Chisholm hats, McGovern buttons, and Wallace posters, delegates cast their votes in the roll call. 79