William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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4-..,f Secretarial practice students in Miss Marie Hord's minute average in shorthand dictation. Vocational first-second hour class are taking dictation in training provided in this course prepares them shorthand. These girls in the two-hour class pe- for a stenographic position when they graduate riod learn the fundamentals of secretarial pro- from high school. cedures. One of the aims is a 100 word per The vocational, academic, cultural Second hour Drafting I students taught by Kenneth Clinc all the fields of drafting as pattern making, machine draw- draw orthographic projections. This class is a basic drawing ing, architecture and pictorials. lt is open to sophomores, class for engineering. It is an elementary course covering juniors and seniors. I' HL. i , Q , 1 at F 1. A' , ,.tf Vykr V 4 WS rl

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Xp: I E i 1 x l ' 3lr '3 l Third hour physics students do an experiment on time, dis- Don Bridgforth, Rebecca Rickcl, David Horne, Dennis Hilker tance, velocity and acceleration relationships. Laura Etzen- and Richard Brown are performing the experiment. houscr, Jody Rosenbaum, Larry Liddlc, Miko Williamson, important trio in learning process Freshmen in Mrs. Wilma Upton's second hour English class Saroyan, Short stories are included in the first literature unit study the short story, The Parsley Garden, by William studied by all freshman English students. N WW.. ,-5-Ci, -i -gi . -.K 1

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Kc 1 S Listening intently as Betty Krause gives a demonstra- tion speech on How to Make an Octopus from Yarn are Miss Margaret Meredith's Speech I third hour students. This course includes informal speaking and formal speaking. Informal speaking consists of conversation, interviews, group discussions. parliamentary law, pronunciation-vocalxulary, poise development and body control. Formal speaking em- braces public speaking, interpretation of literature and radio and television techniques. all make a Well-rounded curriculum Art students in lilrs. Barbara Eiehhorn's second hour class Art Il are stylizing animals, which is exaggerating some characteristic of an animal to an impression rather than an actual reproduction. Creativeness and individuality in all phases of life is emphasized in this course. Students get a basic understanding of 20 media, providing a wide range of artistic experience. Each project is geared so that one new principle must be added, making each project an accumulative process. Every person is an individual and every person has a different idea of what creativeness is. The purpose of the course is for each individual to decide what is creative for him: thus each student becomes an in- dividual personality. l l . F, ,,.. ,nf .53 N ,XR a M 1