Warren Central High School - Wigwam Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Office Know-how and Busy typewriters and the whir of sewing ma- chines are familiar sounds at opposite ends of Warren’s long upper hall. Warren Central’s business curriculum offers many secretarial skills that are helpful to the office worker or college-bound student. Typing, short- hand, office practice, business arithmetic, bookkeep- ing, business law, and business machines are com- mon courses offered. An efficient and well- etpiipped unit, the business department is complete with manual and electric typewriters, switchboards, adding machines, and duplicating machines. Students enrolled in business courses are trained to become efficient or skilled and have the oppor- tunity to assist in other departments of the school. Girls in liome economics gain valuable experi- ence and develop skills wliich they will practice in the future. These futtire homemakers may take classes in cliild care, clothing, foods, home nursing and management, housing, and family living. The modern food and clothing labs are equipped with demonstration areas, libraries, and many of the best appliances and machines. With modern equip- ment and teaching every girl learns the importance of practical skills she should know, regardless of what future vocation she may choose. Learning to type is the main reason for taking typing, hut as Don Harold is finding out there comes a time to change ribbons too! Dixie Frazier operates an Underwood-Olivetti printing calcu- lator in business machines class. Linda Jones and Glenda Miers, taking dictation much as they would in an actual office, are gaining confidence for the future.

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for Useful Hands A comprehensive high school must have depart- ments covering many varied fields of interest in order to meet the needs of all the students. One such necessary department is the industrial arts department where 25 classes are taught daily. An education in industrial arts is defined as “a study of the chanares a man makes in the materials about him so that they will better meet his needs.” W arren’s industrial arts department has grown steadily through the years and now consists of courses in drafting, machine shop, printing, trans- portation, electronics, and woodworking. In drafting, not only sizes and shapes of indus- trial equipment become familiar to students, but also the hows and whys. Drafting, like other courses in industrial arts, is offered for ttvo years; but in special cases students can elect a third year. Wood- shop teaches the art of tvorking with wood. Students enrolled in this course usually complete about two projects in a year. Transportation deals with the study of gasoline motors, especially those of auto- mobiles. Machine shop students learn skills that will aid them in their occupations. Printing stu- dents print the school’s biweekly newspaper, along wdth tickets and programs for the school. In the study of electricity, electronics students learn the principles of communications receiver-and-transmit- ter techniques. Each course in industrial arts offers students a chance to find and develop their special abilities and skills. Terry Ryan learns the operation of a milling machine is valuable for perfecting his class projects in machine shoj). •Students like Mike Sullivan find that the linotype machine has saved many hours of work when type is set for The Warren Owl. Mr. Robert Cooksey, who teaches transportation, demonstrates to Robert Jewell how the power of a V-8 engine can be tested.

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Domestic Skills Prepare Warrenites for Future Sharon Johnson, Judy Faysal, and friends occupy the model fallout shelter exhibited in the home economics display case. (Sharon is second from left, and Judy is kneeling in center.) Linda Taylor, Linda Brammer, and •Martha DeFue practice home nursing skills on Vikki McDonald, who is a willing and pampered patient.