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

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Some business students put their knowledge to practice by working in the office a period a day. Jan Hartle, exchanges a word with Mrs. Christianna Genrich, registrar, while looking up a program card. Jan received the 1958 Altrusa award, given to a junior girl outstanding in all phases of school. From typing to changing tires, Would be secretaries enroll every year in busi- ness courses. They learn the touch system of typing, the secrets of shorthand, filing methods, and fundamentals of office practice. Girls com- pleting the secretarial course often go straight from graduation to a good job, having received not only training in office procedure but in work- ing with a switchboard and transcribing with a dictaphone. However, many students take typ- ing without intending to use it in a vocation, but they know it is helpful in writing themes and letters. Girls often take shorthand with the thought of future college lectures in mind. This skill is very valuable since a quick method of taking notes can come in handy many times. The salesmanship class, new to the business department this year, teaches students how to present a product to the public. Other courses are business arithmetic, law, bookkeeping, machine calculation, and commercial geography. Ugh! exclaims Betty Pierson. She looks aghast at the eye Dan McAnally shows her in health class, one of the courses required for high school graduation. 16

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The home economics department also includes home nursing and home management courses. Girls learn the fundamentals of first aid plus the duties of the home nurse. Satisfactory completion of the course awards a Red Cross pin and certifi- cate to each girl. Home management teaches budgeting, home planning, and home decoration. Art offers the opportunity to create. After an introductory course of craft arts, students may choose classes in several related subjects. They get a chance to express their own ideas in design- ing jewelry, fashions, and plastic articles. Further chances for creativity comes with water color and sculpture. Lettering is a course devoted entirely to planning and lettering posters. Commercial art often points the way to a rewarding career in the advertising field. When posters, banners, stage sets, and Mardi Gras props are needed, the de- partment gets a call. The talents of Howe ' s artists are also evident in the number of Scholastic Art Awards won each year. Carole Knecht and Chattie Shields stitch up a quick seam on the new machines in the sewing lab while Barbara Shepherd sews her fine seam by hand. in fine and domestic art classes Reproducing the human body on paper is a hard job, but art students get much practice. Although a live model may be used, Judy Fitch, Marina Chap- man, Carolyn Jones and Ann Booe concentrate on a statue for this lesson. 15

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■ ■ Girls can fix flat tires. Brenda Halbrooks convinces Judy Harsin during driver ed class. But Mr. Raymond Moon and Steve Brooks continue to doubt. ► Careful now! prompts Sharon Maners. She and and Marty Hendrickson steady Vicki Lewellen in a head stand for a part of the training in Physical Ed. Howeites gain practical skill Along with the requested courses, there are several subjects required for graduation. One of these is a single semester of health. Here, Howe- ites study the body ' s structure, types of diseases, the right kind of foods to eat, how environment affects the body, and the stages of life. Another required course is one year of physical education. Those first weeks, Howeites discover muscles that they didn ' t know they had. How- ever they soon recover from the aches and pains to learn the general rules of many games and develop skills in indoor and outdoor sports. Some- thing fairly new that both boys and girls enjoy is the mixed square dancin g class. Driver education behind the book training is also required. Howeites are taught the rules of the road and learn the parts of the car and their functions. Many students go ahead to take be- hind the wheel training. By driving in traffic, they apply book knowledge to doing. To buy or not to buy? As a result of a new course in salesmanship, Bill Black tries his technique of low-pressure salesmanship on Linda Lennington. 17