James Madison Memorial High School - Olympian Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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v 5' ' . 1, M W3 r . ' i The Anthropology students got a chance to do some excavating for planted relics during the spring. m .Sl-. .Y r 4... Mr. Gregg and Mr. Kaliebe caught during one of their light hearted debates. J nmsiy up-....,, 4. Mr. Barr discovered it was harder to grade 150 essays than it was to get them written. 85

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Social Studies American History was taught by Mr. Barr, Mr. Steckelberg, Mr. Turner and Mrs. Reffner this year. Mr. Lackore, Mr. Phelps, Mrs. Becker and Mr. Golberg taught Western Civilization. Area Studies was taken care of by Mr. Pare. Mr. Gregg and Mr. Kaliebe taught US History. Mr. Mueller was in charge of Political Science while Mr. Soderling took care of the Pre-Thrust program. Mr. Harrington and Mrs. Swanson taught Economics. Mrs. Swanson also taught Sociology. Simulation games were added to the American History curricu- lum. Western Civ. had students under individual contracts. ln U.S. History the students were given a choice of one of four units offered instead of having them all do the same thing. The students enrolled in Economics learned about comparative shopping. they set up families with budgets and had to operate within those budg- ets. They also formed a corpora- tion ofstudent investors and spent S2500 in the stock market. The Poli Sci class looked at political behavior and had guest speakers. The Anthropology students did some excavating on the school grounds. 84 v Lg. ,::':1,lV.i - I write' if 1 ,V 3 it 4.2. i ,... ,. Alderperson, Ms. Ashman. spoke to Mr. Muellcr's class. Brother Phelps demonstrated what it was like to get an education during the Renaissance period.

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Special Education Vocational ducation This year the Special Education department added a new teacher, Mrs. Rood, she taught Math, English and Social Studies. Math and English were also taught by Mrs. Aserlind along with Work Education. Mr. Hass was in charge of a work-study program. The students took various field trips to local industries. They also went on a 3 day camp out by bicycle. In the Vocational Education department Mr. Shuler taught the drafting classes which were: Gen- eral Drafting, Architectural Drafting, Advanced Drafting, and Co-op Drafting. Electricity, Elec- tronics I, Electronics II, Electron- ics III and Co-op Electronics were taught by Mr. Kollath. Mr. De- Young was -in charge of Graphic Arts I and II and Graphic Arts Co-op. Mr. Barth taught Power Mechanics and some of the Auto Mechanic classes. Mr. Ehart taught Auto Mechanics I, Il, III and Co-op Auto Mechanics. In- dustrial I and II were taught by Mr. Haugh. All of the Co-op classes offered were actual on the job training. The students received both high school credit and pay. In the drafting classes most of the time was spent in lab, very little time was used for lectures. Graphic Arts was basically a work at your own rate type of class. Auto Me- chanics taught the students how to make actual repairs on auto en- gines and bodies. 86 The old saying Get out and get under has real meaning in Auto Mech The Special Ed girls were given a make-up demonstration.