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

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ight OH Classes Through classs Howeites learn methods of study, travel the pathways to knowledge, and gain practical experience for later life. Each department contributes to developing mind and body: eleven semesters of math are offered science classes spotlight the laws of nature, while business education students work to become the leaders of tomorrow. Art and music provide entertainment and development for specially talented Howeites, home economics and industrial arts tea-ch practical skills. English classes give students the basics ot grammar, foreign language shows the reality of o close-knit world. Much homework and test-cramming is accomplished in study hall, but some Howeites appear in the morning tired and red-eyed from study. Field trips, chemistry experiments, studies of Shakespeare's Globe, new.lBM typewriters, all add to courses by supplying answers to courious, delving Howeites, and by spotlighting classes at Howe.

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Howeites are rewarded for outstanding High educational standards and enthusiasm for recognition stimulate competition tor Howe and Howe students. Awards, prizes, and scholarships are continually being given for special talents, leader- ship, and hard work in all educational programs. Each spring the American Legion's Irvington Post honors an outstanding boy and girl good citizen in the iunior class. Good Citizens Dan Breckenridge and Margaret Surface, of the Class of l963, led the Senior Class of T962 at their Vesper Service. Carole Fields received the Altrusa Award and the DAR Good Citizen Award. The student body and the faculty chose her for excellence in leadership, scholarship, citizenship, and service. Elizabeth Smith received the DAR Good Citizen Award for the soph- omore class. Elizabeth also attended the Seattle Worlds' Fair last spring as the result of winning the Biological Science Fair regional prize. ,Art work of twenty-tour Howe students was dis- played at the John Herron Art Museum tor three weeks during October. Six other Howeites attended a drawing series and art lectures at John Herron. Senior Ed Rogers was a runner-up in the National Council of Teachers ot English achievement contest. He was nominated as a iunior for this award by his English teachers to compete in this contest. Fourteen other Howeites attended summer work- shops at Michigan State, Indiana, and Purdue Uni- versities, Lake Tippecanoe at North Webster, Indi- ana, and Kansas City, Missouri, for training in music, iournalism, and student council leadership. Sally Slater, Carole Fields, Ruth Tedrowe, Janice Carney, and Nancy Stewart were Howe's delegates and alternates for Hoosier Girls' State. Carole and Ruth attended the summer institute, and the other girls were selected as alternates. Relaxing after a day of campaigning at Hoosier Boys' State, Howe representatives Tom Gilkison, Mike Nation, and Ron Lee discuss classes in government, public speaking, and Iqw, 10 s T