Wyoming Park High School - Orbit Yearbook (Wyoming, MI)

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Mr. Kramer gives Glen Kellogg his world history notebook. KEY T0 FREEDOM An intense study of local government was set off when Wyoming Township became the City of Wyoming. Social studies provide us with a political, economical, and historical background of local and national proportions. "Freedom is gained through knowledge," is the idea be- hind social studies. Drivers' training students are often surprised when they study the statistics on highway accidents, speeding, or stopping distances, to find that driving can be quite hazardous. The purpose of drivers, training is to teach students the mechanics of a car and how to drive it. Michael Hannum, Carole Dutmer, and Bob Berends make use of library reference material for United States history.

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JOE Kfamafz and Pete Vander Haal' examine the Cost Spanish class watches closely while Mary Bean writes tume of a Roman soldier worn by Mike Dolan in Latin gulqoday is Tuesday, Tgmgfrow is Wednesday," class. LANGUAGE Spanish students write, speak, and read Spanish throughout the year. They learn the background of the language by studying the history of Spain and its people. The high point of Latin class is the Roman Ban- quet. A lot of research is undertaken by the class on Roman food, -costumes, and entertainment. They translate words, sentences, and phrases which helps them with the grammatical side of Latin. SPEECH Speech class has a varied and interesting program this year. The class held debates and it was from speech class that the debate team was chosen to compete with other schools. The class put on a play for the Christmas assembly, and tried their hand at choral reading. All of the experiences were good practice for public speaking. Members of the debate team joe Kramarz, Lynn Raven, and Barbara Van Noord, discuss de- bate topic.

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