Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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if A ,nxt 7 Q53 1 li if A f I MR. JOHN BRISBIN MR- HOWARD COOK Social Studies Social Studies' MR. MICHAEL ASUMAA MR. EDWARD HUSBECK Social Studies Social Studies Carol Patterson and Don Huisken stage the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac for Mr. Cook and his history class to add meaning to the Civil War. .1 M , f: 1 MR. JACK DeFORD Social Studies MR. RCGER MAY Social Studies MR. THEODORE WEIGEL Social Studies I 29

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The social studies teachers presented this traditional subject in a more meaningful and useful way this year. Geography, history, and government classes used current events as practical applications of their studies. Bridging the gap between knowledge and use, these courses stressed creative and original projects. Maps, reports, pictures or other talents such as sewing, wood carving or sculp- turing of geographical features or prominent figures were established in the gradebook as well as assignments. Some history classes read and discussed court cases. Then they compared their decisions with the actual supreme court decisions to see how well they interpreted the constitution. In class, the stu- dents were stimulated by more specific events While the general information was acquired by either outside or textbook reading. VVhether a field trip or editorial occupied a student, the routine of social studies was transformed into individual thought develop- ment as different phases were viewed. l Paul Forkner,Li1m Lemon,a'ad Bill Fitzgerald would rather listen to T6 cords about the Civil War .in Mfr. Defo'rol's class than 'read or study from books ..,.. ,, f t d.. fm ff ,:.,,c, , y. ,..,,V e y i i i't't ' in MR: BERNARD MCCANN MR. CHARLES SWEENEY MR. ED TOWNSEND Social Studies 28 Social Studies Social Studies

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X K MR. MACLIN DOUGLAS MR. LESTER MAILE Science Science Mr. Yell nti cautions Sandy Nichols about the heat as students seriously watch to see what 'Ls ahead. Dave Keenen, Dave Cushion Gary Myers, Linda Wicker, Phil Casterton, and Mr. Basil Hallmles intently watch the balloon blow up in the bell-jar. The science .department includes biology, chemistry, and physics. Biology, the study of all living things, stimulated students With the hypotheses of primitive life which were followed through the course. Then advanced biology brought depth and de- tail to the discoveries made during the first year. To complete a science minor, many stu- dents elected chemistry, which this year, dealt with laboratory analysis. The class, cen- tered around the laboratory, became aware of the facts through sight and smell instead of through reading as in the previous years. Physics, a technical course, relates math with science. Trigonometry and geometry are ap- plied extensively to visualize the answers to force problems. All science classes urged ob- servation of man and nature and therefore offered laboratory Work for stimulation. :HIV MR. JOSEPH VELLANTI MISS JUDITH WARDWELL MR. CARROL HOWARD Sclence Science Science Xu g - -. . X- 301 .l