Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Learning obout child-core was on important ond interesting port of Home Nursing. Vocational training emphasized creative e

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Business courses developed accuracy Joyce Yudt found fKot crediting or debiting on occounf wos not difficult after Mr . C. M. Reietor's exploootion. At the beginning of every school year o great many of Tolleston's students enroll in business courses. This year o complete four-year program was offered with courses in bookkeeping, general business, Typing I and II, Shorthond I ond II, and clerical practice. College-bound students ond students bent on working after graduation found courses in business education helpful in their homework and part-time jobs. Business education, for most students, begon with general business or bookkeeping In these courses students leorned the accounting phase of business. Accurocy, together with neatness, mark- ed on excellent beginning for future businessmen. Advanced business students, with their thoughts on college, utilized to the fullest Typing I ond Shorthond I periods to gain proficiency, which is so important for doing college research work. Business students knew the importance of speed ond occurocy in typing ond shorthond. Two years credit in each course assured students of the necessary training for o job in the business field. For even more assuronce of business pro- ficiency, many students enrolled in clerical prac- tice This course enobled students to learn how to type stencils, charts, ond forms, os well os how to operate severol business machines To start students in the work world, it) 1958 o co-operative program was developed to enable senior students to go to school half o day ond to work the rest of tne doy in their chosen fields. Many business students, os well os students in the field of mechanics and monuol arts, hove begun their coreers this way. Mr R P. Sifng explained to Cheryl Noylor, o ir t-yeor typing student, where the home-row key ore locoted Mr . I. R Leek observed Mary Brown os she demonstrated how to use the mimeograph mochme to her classmates

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Through the diligent efforts of the home eco- nomics ond vocotionol troining teachers, students were tought to sew, cook, and make items of wood ond metol. These skills prepared students to take their places in an active ond industrious America. Students enrolled in home economic classes learned to sew, cook, give first-aid, care for chil- dren and for the sick. With the aid of modern sew- ing machines, girls mode oprons, skirts, blouses, ond dresses. Instructions on child-care included how to bathe a child ond how and what to feed it. Care-for-the-sick consisted of instructions about what to feed patient and how to change a bed properly Tolleston's vocational progrom was carefully plonned to trom young men for future jobs. With the aid of teachers and modern equipment ond tools, boys were taught how to repair electrical ap- pliances. Their dreams become reolities when they completed their first items. Woodshop students were taught to be effi- cient and reliable With these two traits, they were able to learn the best methods of building Metalshop students were also given the op- portunity to use their hands constructively. With the help of their teacher ond the lathe, students displayed their creative talents by making useful objects of metal Poul Pollard ond Robert Alexander applied Im14h.no touches to the trimming of o kmck-knock bor. accomplishments Mr V M. Nelson explo.ned to electric shop students vonous techniques for utilizing the school electrical workbench Mr J. J. O'Keefe assured metalshop students that mastering the lothe is fundamental to working with metol. t7