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

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Future secretaries and businessmen get a good start during their high school career when they enroll in typing, shorthand, filing, or bookkeeping, courses offered in Howe's business de- partment. Girls wishing to go into the business field after graduation from high school, receive training in working on a switchboard, and transcribing with ci dictaphone. A salesman- ship course, machine calculation, commercial geography, busi- ness orithmetic, and law teach students the fundamental pro- cedures in buying and selling. Each year the NOMA Spelling Test gives business students and other interested pupils a chance to show their talent. A list of one hundred words must be spelled correctly. After this is done, the student receives a certificate of merit. -ummm. Metal Shop gives boys experience in machine making. Tom Bond works with a drill. Metal Shop is a two period class with one credit each semester. In the advanced business courses many students gain the opportunity to learn to use and receive training on machines similar to those which they will encounter in their future iobs. Boys learn ro make useful articles and work with their hands in the wood shop course offered at Howe, This full-credit course is open to boys of all ages.

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P I-I Home Economics classes Otter Howe girls an opportunity to become more tamiliar with many aspects ot good housekeep- ing and practical home knowledge. The Home Economics classes are divided into many sections, the basic courses are Foods and Clothing. In the foods classes the girls learn how to cope with many problems of food preparation. Aside from preparing tantalizing dishes, the girls learn to arrange their tables attractively and to make use of leftovers. In the clothing classes girls learn to sew attractive clothes for themselves. Besides the fundamentals ot sewing and mak- ing clothes attractive the girls learn the basics of good dress. They prepare charts and graphs on colors that match and material that is easy to work with and makes an attractive appearance when worn with other types ot material. Three home ec students check each other and their classmates by noting differ- ent paints of baking during a class proiect in one ot Mrs. Helen Allen's foods classes. lwlufww X. ,M . - y ww ' ' X A it During Typing I class, Eric Briggs works for speed as well as accuracy. Typing is a very worth-while class for all students who wish to better their grades.

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octal ' pupils eujog events During International Relations, a social studies pupil gives a report on the Panama Canal troubles. Pamphlets and maps help pupils to better under- stand our relations with foreign countries. Howe's Social Studies Department otters several required courses and electives for those interested in history, civics and current events. Juniors are required by law to take United States History, while those in the Senior Class must enroll in government and economics. Freshmen and sophomores may elect a course in world history. A new course at Howe this year was Indiana History. Taught by Miss Dorotha Kirk, the class proved to be a popular one with juniors and seniors. Mr. James Stainbrook taught another elective, international relations. Studying human behavior are some social studies classes. Students of psychology, sociology, and family living learned to use personality tests and sociological surveys in their class- work. Term papers were written on some phase of the course enjoyed by each student. An in depth study of the history of the American people is considered by all iuniors. This United States History course takes two semesters to complete, and is followed in the first part of the senior year by United States Government. Atter government, seniors take economics during their last semester. Each student receives a mythical thousand dollars to invest in stocks. Once-a-week reports helped students to know it they were losing or gaining in their investments. A real one thousand dollars was given to one senior social studies major who wrote the best research theme on some phase ot the departmental study. Social studies pupils helped the speech classes with the Junior Town Meeting radio shows on WIBC. By teaching of the past, and about current events and hu- man behavior, the department prepares students for later lite. Government students of Miss Nancy Adams attended the October 'l5 City Council Meeting in the City-County Building. There, they learned about city government, and appeared on a television news show.