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

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ss, ' 4 Much research material is available in the library. Junior Chris Elliott finds help in writing his vocational theme. Mr. Tobin strikes a familiar pose in one of his derivatives classes. Etymology is a popular course with students. The English Department, headed by Miss Ellen O'Drain has made a few changes in curriculum. ln addition to English l through 8, English 9 and lO have been added. Both are elective courses and may be taken after English 6. English 9 is an ad- vanced composition course. English lO covers world literature. These classes are of great value to stu- dents preparing for college. Journalism has become an elective and is no longer a substitute for English 5. It is good experience for future iournalists planning to work on the Tower or Hilltopper staffs. English 3, 5,And Other courses offered by the English department are Speech l and 2, and Debate l and 2. These subiects give training and experience to those who compete in speech meets held at various schools throughout the year. Dramatics l and 2 are of in- terest to those with talent in the staging and acting fields. Etymology, formerly known as derivatives, has become one of the most popular courses at Howe. It is the study of Greek and Latin word stems. Etymology aids a student in his everyday speech and home work assignment and is a valuable aid when taking SAT tests. Students spend many hours in the library each year. With its abundance of up-to-date books, magazines, and other research materials, it serves Howe pupils well.

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The main purpose of a school is informing, in- structing, training, and consequently obtaining knowledge and learning. Classes achieve These pur- poses: informing those who are naive and unaware at the world about them, instructing, giving direc- tions, allowing the road to knowledge to be better lighted, training the future generations to think for themselves enabling them to discover how to study and thereby learning, which is the key element ot any school and of course the desired goal. Classes are a school. This is evident, without them these pur- poses would be useless and impossible to achieve. HCW .. 5 min all X Q X X X X xx if Y-F f 1:0 AQ ....ooool. ' '0...' U 5 4' ' cn - V eff 4. if 1 x no.. x , .4 ..,'. 0 -...........-

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Require Vocational, Research Themes 3574 , . Miss Kittleson captures her students' interest as she explains and demonstrates the answer to a student's question. Ellen O'Drain-English department head, Donald R. Austin, Hariette Baker, Elizabeth Baldwin, Bruce L. Beck, Marcia Blair Elinor Bretzlaft, Steven T. Briggs, Judith Eaton, John Ervin, Pa- tricia Fisher, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Sharon A. Janes, Rhoda Kit- telsen, Wayne Mellott, Ruth Mercer, Linda Milburn, Mary J Pride, Virginia Selewach, Dorothy Smith, Hal C. Tobin, Jack Weaver. Masters degrees are held by 85 percent of the staff. I9 C771