Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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Mrs. Vera Briggs explains that Latin is not a dead language and that it is useful in many professions. Miss Jan Kullbom makes use of the overhead projector to intruct her Spanish classes. Mr. Ivan Polyakov stresses not only vocabulary and grammar, but hope for peace and understanding among nations. Foreign Languages Foster Awareness, Appreciation The world we live in is becoming increasingly international, and yet many high school students feel that there is no need to study a foreign language. Language students at AHS exhibit none of this apathy. Students may pursue studies in Spanish, German, and Latin, and will be accompanied and encouraged in their undertaking by patient instructors. Plagued by strange -sounding words and tedious memorization, they are ultimately rewarded by a sense of awareness and appreciation for a foreign culture. 21

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 Think'. exclaims Mr. Willis Furman. Mr. Furman is Social Studies Department Chairman, and teaches Project American History, Sociology, and mini-courses in politics and current affairs. Mr. Phillip Schweitzer and Mr. Lyle Neuman plan something different for their American History students. pi ' 19 Social Studies Urge Participation An understanding of the events of the past is essential to cope with the situation of today, and to prepare for the challenge of the future. A comprehensive social studies curriculum provides students with this opportunity. Traditional courses of World History, Economics, American History, American Government, and Sociology form a basic foundation of social and cultural knowledge. Project classes and mini-courses provide more intensified study, urge individual and group participation, and pose though-provoking questions to concerned students. Mr. Thomas Horvorka, instructor of American Government and Economics, explains the price of gold to his class. Miss Ellen Christensen contemplates her lesson plan. She teaches Western World, World History, and cultural history mini-courses. 20

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Numbers-the Game; Math Is the Name The Math Department, with Mr. McDermott as chairman, stresses one of the sciences dealing with numbers and measurements, properties, and relationship of quantities. It includes arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; it also demonstrates the science of geometrical measurement. Each day involves mathematics in some form. Basic fundamentals of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, equations, number to a power, extraction of a root of a number, integers, and interrelationship between space and number-all are terms designed to teach and acquaint a pupil-with the subject. Today to learn, tomorrow to teach. Two heads are better than one, quip math instructors Len Hartman and Jim Hawk. Pensive Jim McDermott, Math Department Head, prepares his lesson plans. 22