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

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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.

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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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COUNTERCLOCKWllSE-- SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: Mr. Vir- gil Heniser, department heady Mr. Paul Klinge, Mr. Richard Hammond, Miss Ierry Motley, Mr. William M. Smith, Mr. Floyd Ieff- ries. SCIENTISTS AT LARGE Ever noticed the peculiar smell of rotten eggs or the odd odor of chloroform wafting through the halls of Howe? lf not, perhaps you've noticed a certain few people lugging great big orange books around. At any rate, these are signs of the science depart- ment. That fragrance of rotten eggs is the mark of the chemistry lab when the students are slaying with their collection of chem- icals. Chloroform has all the marks of the biology lab when some murderous student is putting an end to some poor weak bug. Those big orange books and big long tests really leave the physics students in a whirl. The study of science does, however, create an interest in hobbies for leisure time activities, gives knowledge of purchasing and using goods and services, and gives students an understanding of the need for conservation of natural resources. A course in Chemistry Ill, qualitative chemical analysis, is of- fered one semester each year. This year a new course in physical science was offered to juniors and seniors: on the alternate semes- ter each year those students who take only biology as their science are offered a one semester survey course in physics and chemistry known as physical science. 19