Belle Plaine High School - Tigerian Yearbook (Belle Plaine, MN)

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Math Science Departments TOP ROW. LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. McDonald—librarian, ad- visor to magazine drive. Li- brary Club and ninth grade; Mr. Lueplte—Junior high mathematics: Miss Lundquist— algebra, geometry, advanced mathematics, advisor to senior class: Mr. Ott—junior high science, driver's training, ad- visor to ninth grade. BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Heitltamp—biology, chemistry, physics, advisor to Science Club, ninth grade and as- sistant basketball coach: Mr. Miller—biology, senior high physical education and health, advisor to ninth grade and baseball coach: Miss Wil- helmi—physical education and health, advisor to cheerlead- ing, gymnastics. G.A.A. and iunior class: Mr. Henderson— elementary and junior high physical education and health, advisor to eighth grade and football, wrestling and as- sistant track coach. 28 Mr. Hietkamp supervised the chemistry class during one of its laboratory experiments.

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Vocational Department TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Hurley—senior high home economics, advisor to F.H.A. and junior class: Mrs. Wojcialc—junior high home economics, advisor to seventh grade: Mr. Leise—industrial arts, advisor to ninth grade. BOTTOM ROW. LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Harms—agriculture, cooperative work-study program coordinator, advisor to F.F.A. and ninth grade: Miss Meyer—business typing, short- hand, office practice, advisor to TIGERIAN and senior class: Mr. Clements—bookkeeping, consumer economics, business mathematics. Vocational Department Susan Stringer stirs ingredients in a skillet while Kathy Buesgens grates orange peels during home economics class. Purchases New Machines This year the vocational department continued the vocational cooperative training program. The seniors who took part were: Anita Hiles, who served as a nurse's aid at the Lutheran Home for the Aged; Jim Albrecht, who worked as a mechanic at Keup's Garage; Kevin Fahey, who worked as a storehand at Steffen's Hardware; Jim Latzke, who operated a machine at Excelsior Plastics; Verena Riesgraf, who was a secretary for Ploetz Insurance Agency: and Gary Bigaouette, who worked at Ker- kow Implement selling parts and repairing machin- ery. Mr. Harms took charge of the program. Office practice courses benefitted from the purchase of a Friden fully automatic calculator which performs all mathematical computations auto- matically. Other new machines are: Burroughs and Clary ten-key adding-listing machines, Burroughs full keyboard adding machine with a wide carriage, Monroe rotary calculator and a Totalia printing calculator. Also purchased were two Heyer Super- scopes for preparing lettering and pictures on stencils for mimeoqraphing and four electric Royal 550 typewriters. The department now has thirteen typewriters, twenty-four manual typewriters and twelve adding and calculating machines. The twelfth grade home economics class con- centrated on the redecorating of the dining room. The students refinished the table, chairs and buffet in antique style, and chose draperies to blend with the decor. 27

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Dorfhy Skelly springs for a basket as Janet Carlson, Charlene O'Brien, and Nancy Sollor look on. Library, Physical Ed. Department Library Services Expand To Meet Student Needs This year our library went through a complete change. It expanded its facilities to better en- able the students of BPHS to do research in a more complete information center. This expansion was made possible through the addition of Room 133 as part of the new library. The library now has two compartments: one for research area, which contains all periodicals, books, and encyclopedias to satisfy student needs; the other part is for leisure reading, containing all novels and magazines. The science department offered six courses. They were junior high sciences, general science, field biology, structural biology, chemistry, and physics. No matter what your interest in science, there was a science course designed especially for you. This year junior high mathematics, algebra, geometry, intermediate algebra, and advanced mathematics classes benefited from the purchase of an overhead projector. Answers to assignment problems could be viewed through prepared trans- parencies, with no loss of time. The physical education classes were conducted for the seventh through tenth grades. Their ac- tivities included playing football, volleyball, soccer, tumbling, archery, track, softball, and recreational games. They also learned basic polkas, waltzes, and square dancing. Besides molding muscles, health classes were held. Classes toured through the heart mobile on March 13 when the Minnesota Health Association presented the public display. Geometry students, Gail Seaver, Terry Sullivan, and Dwight Gerdes work out solu- tions to Pythagorean problems. 29