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

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While many students can finish most of their homework during study halls, some must get together for homework sessions. Here, Myra Bewley takes time out from her study of US History to explain a part of the required biology course she took last year to Mark Gerzon and Anita Wood. At the beginning of each day, students and teachers alike dawdled outside classrooms after the five-minute warning bell until iust time to rush in to get organized before class starts at 8:15. While there was laughter and fun and good times, Howeites realized the serious business of study and making grades. At 3:15 many students attended school club meetings, and boys worked out for sports. Teachers may sponsor these ac- tivities. Some students and a few teachers had after-school part-time jobs. But all took home textbooks and study ma- terials. Pupils did their lessons and homework, and teachers made the inevitable lesson plans which are the heart of the school, academically. At Howe, there are many sports, inter- and intramural. The school also sponsors many extra-curricular clubs and activi- ties. The reason students and teachers and the school are here, however, is forthe learning process. Tlw fwasow wefw lwwf: sclwlaasldp ' A familiar scene in many classes is that of students watching a movie which supplements textbook material. Motion pictures, tape recordings and mechanical labs are a big part of classroom life in all departments of the school. lnstructing a class before sending the students to lab, Mr. Richard Dowell stands at the front table. New science laboratories, where Mr. Dowell may usually be found, contain the most modern equipment for student and teacher use. 16

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Probably the greatest honor that is given at Howe is mem- bership in the school's chapter of National Honor Society. Only the upper ten per cent of the juniors and fifteen per cent of the Senior Class can be eligible for candidacy. lnitiotes are iudged on the qualities which are the ideals of the society: character, leadership, scholarship and service. Miss Maryon Welch is sponsor of NHS. Officers are John Hicks, president, Ken Wolff, vice-president and Jennie Bradley, who is the society's secretary. They had in charge the society's organization, and helped induct new members at the Decem- ber lnstallation. At Installation, Principal Thomas Stirling gave the main address, and four seniors read the scrolls describing the society's ideals. They were Carolyn Keetay, Sheryl Pickett, Ward Poulos and Ken Wolff. On the sweaters, shirts, iackets or blouses of society mem- bers, the keystone-shaped pin may be seen. The pin pictures a torch, the symbol of knowledge, and to recognize knowl- edge is the purpose of the society. Ken Wolff, Jennifer Bradley, and John Hicks, ofticers of the National Honor Society, stand as Miss Welch announces new incoming members at annual Honor Society tap Assembly. was iw-560'vN I-lomofvQoc1e65 NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY-TOP PlCTURE, KBACK ROWJ Cronau, M. Collins, Beavin, Holmes, Carey, Runciman, Dentler, Payne, Wall, Wells, Comm, Townsend, Sapp, McLellen, CTHIRD ROWJ Merriman, A. Keetay, Stone, Rennard, Stanifer, Garrity, Frazelle, VanCamp, J. Collins, Dalton, Stan- brough, Landis, Hall, Deeter, CSECOND ROWJ Cottom, Burns, Medearis, Fischbach, Hanske, Abernethy, Graham, Catron, Redick, Andress, Bell, CFIRST ROWJ Bennett, Cardwell, Steffen, McNabb, Shafer, Hobbs, Evens, Rork, Vicars. BOTTOM PICTURE, CBACK ROWJ Disney, Walker, Wolff, McAnally, Tilford, Cross, Pettee, Merchant, Faude, Henderson, Harvey, Poulos, CTHIRD ROWD Day, Shirley, Hahn, Cronin, Tracy, Scanland, Briggs, Hicks, Robb, Kime, Chandler, Barnes, CSECOND ROWJ Kovac, Early, Pigman, Bradley, Copeland, Bruney, Stone, McBurnie, Fahrbach, Campbell, Elder, Peck, Eckert, KFIRST ROWJ Kitchen, Roberts, C. Keetay, French, Pickett, Knecht, Corbin, Whitmore, Smith, Krinhop, Burris, Roe. KNOT PICTUREDJ Clark, Collins, Cooke, Otto, Schubert, Sugioka. mv 'rwxvz it

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