Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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COUNTERCLOCKW'ISE- COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT: Cleft top row! Mrs. Margaret Rowe, department heady Mrs, El- len lane Mead. Cthird row! Mr. E. Franklin Fisher, Mr. Sherman I. Pittenger. Ksecond row leftl Mr. Charles Ruschhaupt. PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: Csec- ond row rightl Miss Celia Smith, nurse. Cbottom rowl Mrs. lean Taggart, Mrs. Barbara Wood, Mr. Lyman Combs, Mr. E. L. Yeager, Mr. Samuel Kelley, Mr. Hay Bow- man, department head. DEVELOPING SKILLS The Commercial Department has a Wide variety of courses suited to various needs and individual abilities. Courses with general educational value are those in junior business, commercial geography, and business law. Business arithmetic, filing, typewriting, bookkeeping, comp- tometer, and office procedures are of a semi-vocational value. Primarily vocational in nature are those courses in shorthand, advanced typewriting and office practice Csecretarial trainingi. Many Howe grads have found good positions as a result oi their high school training. l-2-3-4, up-2-3-4, down-2-3-4. These familiar strains come from the realm of the muscle developers, more commonly referred to as the Physical Education Department. Boys and girls QYH1 classes Get vigorous Work-outs on mats, ropes, apparatus, and rings. An intra-mural sports program presents an opportunity to any boy enrolled at school to participate in such activities as basket- ball, football and track. Health classes teach students to guard themselves against all those mean bacteria. Through these classes the students under- stand the necessity of maintaining good physical and mental health. 17

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I ENGLISH IN ACTION Besides the activities usually expected in an English Depart- ment, Howe closely correlates English and vocational information and interest inventories. For pupils with special Writing abilities and interests in publications work, an elective in journalism is offered. It is from the journalism classes that the members of the I-IILLTOPPER and TOWER staffs are chosen. College-bound stu- dents receive special training in English VII and English VIII. In English VII a final study of grammar is made. A research paper is written by students in this class. English VIII classes make a sur- vey study of English literature. Speech training includes public speaking, radio speech, and dramatics. Members of the radio speech class participated in several radio programs during the year. All English classes have emphasis on oral presentation. A broad free-reading program and supplementary reading is fostered by two librarians, sixteen student assistants, and a library of nearly six thousand books. The student assistants take library practice for one semester and work in the library for the alternate semester. Approximately 300 books were added to the supply of books we now have in the library. I6 COUNT'ERCLOCKWISE- ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: ttop row! Miss Alice Hankins, Mr. Seward Craig, department head, Cthird rowl Mr. Kenneth Smartz, Mr. Wayne Mellott. Csecond rowl Miss Ellen O'Drain, Miss Marthana McWhir. Cbottom row, far left? Mrs. I-lartette Baker, Mrs. Ellen Jenkins, Miss Dorothy Brown, Ii- brariang Mrs. Betty Baker, Mr. Darrell Gooch, Mr. H. C. Tobin.

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5 I PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING If I win, I promise to . . . These words mark the annual elec- tion campaigns of the candidates for Governor of the State of Howe. The Social Studies Department has done much to further the students' interests in its three major courses, World History, United States History, and United States Government. Each year the deparment sponsors a mock election for state, county, and city officials. Those elected to the five principal state offices go to Purdue University to attend the Student Legislative Assembly. The two political parties, Nationalist and Federalist, put on a great campaign with all the earmarks of the real thing. Latin American History students travel down Cthrough books of coursel to Central and South America to learn about our South- ern neighbors. Sociology classes make a study of institutions which mold society and some of the problems of that society. In Psychology students study the individual and his reasons for acting the way he does with an emphasis on helping the students involved. Family Relations is a preparatory course for marriage and family life. During the year students enrolled in the department partici- pated in the American Legion Oratorical Contest, United Nations Examination, and the Civil Rights Essay Contest. 18 COUNTERCLOCKWISE- SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT: Mr. Rex Anderson, Mr. Hartwell Kayler, Miss Dorotha Kirk, Mrs. Hattie L. Winslow, Mr. Lewis Gilfoy, Mr. Wade Fuller, Mr. Rus- sell Curtis, department head.