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

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Business students The business curriculum at Howe, says Mr. Sherman Pittenger, head of The Business Education Department, serves two main groups of students: Those who need business information and skills for personal use and Those who need This information and skill To sell to a future employer - a iob for the student. Courses designed for personal use help the indi- vidual in his daily business transactions: general business is an introductory course teaching efficient use of the many and varied business services, the typewriting course teaches the student the touch typing system, business arithmetic enables the stu- dent to calculate simple computations more readily, business law explains how law governs daily busi- ness activities, and economic geography explains people and economic problems of other nations. Howe also offers courses for those considering business as a vocation. Shorthand, machine cal- culations, salesmanship, advanced Typewriting, bookkeeping and filing are designed to develop the student's ability in business skills needed for vocational work. Clerical practice and office prac- tice, offered to seniors, integrate the various skills which have been learned in previous courses and serve as a bridge between the theory and practice of business skills. Jodi Dobbs and Carol Weaver, two of Howe's fifteen business managers, wade through piles of tickets after the Pleasant Run Revue as part of their duties of handling publicity and balancing the books for all Howe extra-curricular activities. asdf,lki runs through the minds and over the papers of Jane English, Carol Dungan, Gerald Weber, Phillip Smalley, Martha prepare for careers Conner, and Michael Shelland as they practice to improve their typing techniques in Mr. Pittenger's Typing I class. 1-M ---- 111: - -ft- W ,M-f -ff

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To the freshman student, the Social Studies De- partment, headed by Mr. Hartwell Kayler, offers a one-year course in world history. In this course, the student learns of world developments ranging from Egyptian mummies to atomic bombs. An intensive study ot the United States is required of all iuniors. ln this one-year course, the students become familiar with the great advancement of our country from the Pilgrims through the Kennedy administration. The senior schedule includes a one-semester course in U.S. Government - a course discussing both the ideals and the realities of our government. During the second semester of the senior year, Howeites en- roll in economics - a study of the consumption of wealth. In this course, a student is given a practical application of what he has learned by investing an imaginary 310,000 in stocks and observing their de- velopments. A wide variety of electives are offered to upper- classmen by the Social Studies Department. Psychol- ogy and Social Problems emphasize the relationship between human behavior and sociology. Interna- tional Relations analyzes current world crises, Latin American Civilization focuses on the history, customs, and prestige of our southern neighbors. as Howeites prepare Howe seniors Mary Jordan, Ruth Ann Tedrowe, and Jim Hilt listen intently to a deputy sheriff as he tells a group of gov- ernment students about the operation of the Marion County l Carol Laird and Pat Burger leaf through a scrapbook of im- portant people in the news. The picture collection was one of several projects government students in Miss Nancy Adams' classes did. Each student had to find about 50 different men. t0 be good citizens Jail. The students shown through both the men's section and the women's section. The tour taken by students of Miss Nancy Adams furthered their study of local government.

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Mathematicians meet today's challenges Linda Young demonstrates some of the principles of optical illusion as Gregory Aldrich fseatedl and Andy Hatcher look on. This figure and the others like it are composed of a series of closely set straight lines which look like curves. Geometry students .Ierry Stanbrough and Sandy Branam find that mathematics can be fun and a challenge as they prepare to solve a problem in geometry class. Courses range from introductory algebra to college preparatory calculus. Howe's Mathematics Department, headed by Mrs. Marie S. Wilcox, offers studies ranging from addition to differential equations. Howe is unique in offering a fifth year course to exceptional mathe- matics students. Taking calculus and analytical geometry, a regular college course, exempts students from elementary college math courses. Trigonometry is a study of triangles and relation- ships of their sides and angles. If you want to measure the height of Howe's flagpole without a step ladder, take trig and learn how. Five semesters of algebra are offered to Howeites. ln these courses, students conquer a new number system and learn to use x,y, and z like' l, 2, and 3. ln the two semesters of plane geometry students learn to construct circles, quadrilaterals, parallelo- grams, trapezoids, and triangles. Each spring Howe- ites enter the realm of three dimensions to solve solid geometry problems. General Mathematics and a non-credit Senior Arithmetic course complete Howe's math curriculum. Trigonometry students Bill Dennison and John Woods put their theories to work as they use the sextant, a surveyor's tool, to attempt to measure the height of the new Howe addition.