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

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Jerry Cooksey discovers that care and precision are necessary in making correct drawings for his drafting assignments. Here he designs a plan that could be used in the construction of a house. Howeites master manual skills by practice While signs of sewing and cooking are evident in the lower corridor, the school ' s southeast wing buzzes with a different sort of activity. The boys in wood and metal shop classes make and keep tools, bookcases, and other useful articles. Almost all of the tickets, programs, and forms needed by Howe for classes and special events are provided by the boys in print shop. Two semesters of physical education are required for graduation, but many Howeites take the course longer. They find that skill games, sports, and various types of dancing contribute to their health and their coordina- tion, as well as to their enjoyment. Pupils are given an opportunity to design and make rings, necklaces, bracelets, and other attractive accessories in jewelry classes. Craft art, meanwhile, shows pupils how to make change purses, wall-hangings, and other deco- rative and functional items for themselves and for use in their homes. Patience is the by-word for Sydney Fallowes, as she follows the long process of making a piece of wood smooth enough to use for her craft arts project. Page 9

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Larry Jenkins learns to execute a side vault over the horse as he participates in a physical education class. Rosalin Greeson keeps busy at the sewing machine as she helps make uniforms for the girls ' drill team. Completing a woodshop project, Bud Smuko applies stain to darken the grain of his coffee-table.

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Libraries, lab cells, and guitars play vital Putting life and rhythm into the musical Spanish Ian- gauge, Mr. James Denny sings a cancion espanol. In Howe ' s modern language lab, Mr. Raymond Hulce dic- tates phrases in Spanish to aid pupil ' s comprehension. Ill the three years of required Enghsh, pupils study everything from Shakespeare and sonnets to spelhng and sentence structure. Pupils in Eng- lish V write vocational essays which help them with career decisions, while a research theme is the main project in English VII. Many pupils elect a fourth year of English, which includes an inten- sive grammer review the first semester and a study of English literature the second. Each semester G classes are offered in English. Their subject matter is the same as in regular classes, but it allows for more comprehensive study and for work on extra projects. Every year pupils in all English classes partic- ipate in the Book Week campaign. Money do- nated by the classes is used to purchase new fiction books for the school library. Besides their regular class work, English students have also made fine showings in various English contests. Special machines and visual aids help pupils in the required nine weeks reading lab course to increase their reading speed and comprehension. Elective courses in the English department in- clude library practice and public speaking. With the realization that language can help to bridge many of the barriers that have arisen between various nations, the study of foreign languages is becoming increasingly popular. Howe ' s foreign language department offers courses in French, Spanish, and Latin as well as a course in Latin and Greek Derivatives. In addi- tion to their regular class work, foreign language students often participate in contests that test their mastery of their chosen language. The recentlv installed language laboratory has greatly enhanced the effectiveness of the language program. The twenty-eight booth lab with teacher control unit enables pupils to improve their pro- nunciation and comprehension of a language with the aid of records and tape recordings while stu- dents are free from distraction. Special activities for French and Spanish pupils often include speakc-rs from their respective lands. All language pupils see films of the land where their language originated. Other visual aids and supplementary material are used in all courses, while Latin students also have a unit on Latin mythology, a study most helpful in literature. Page 10