Albert Lea High School - Tiger (Albert Lea, MN)

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Necessary for Future Vocational Success Advanced courses of study were offered in place of English to capable junior and senior students. For juniors this course included their United States history requirements, making American Studies a two-hour class. Two term papers were required. Cultural history took a number of seniors from stories of Greek gods to a study of the communist handbook. ln one year they made an understandable coverage of 3,000 years of culture by reading litera- ture, listening to music and observing art. Speech developed unknown talents in student speakers. As the year progressed, first year speech students learned to use the power of persuasion in speeches, panel discussions and interpretative read- ings. Speech II participants used their speaking skill in the dramatic world of personality changes. Summary leads, pica sticks, photographs and dead- line problems concerned the busy journalism student, who labored to improve and praise conditions by pub- lishing the paper and the yearbook. WHAT DO YOU THINK of this painting of Monet's? asked Steve Schwartz of two other cultural history students, Karen Johnston and Janice Henderson, who seem to like impressionism. ,E f' -:,.- . .W M W Wallace Kennedy English 11 American Studies Future Teachers of Stanley Mittelstadt English 11 Guidance America L I . 0.1 M 0 v ' 0 .Aff , 5 w Edythe Olson English 10 I-Ii-Teens Gertrude Piers English 11 Guidance Hildred Tennihill English 11 Speech Drama National Thespians Masquers Tiger's Roar Page 17 f

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' l nglish Skills Provide Student Expression Grace Dahle English 12 Joyce Allen English 10 Ushers Club American Field Service Senior Adviser Page 16 Edna Gerckcn Journalism Ah La Ha Sa Tiger Orville Gilmore English 12 Cultural History Helen Heath English 10 Hi-Teens Learning to express themselves well in their own language was a main activity of every senior high stu- dent. This art of expression was available to students in seven courses of English study. Sophomores began their senior high English studies by mastering basic grammar principles and practicing good sentence structure. Intensive studies made on 6'Silas Marnern and 4'Julius Caesar were especially remembered by this year's sophomores. Juniors concentrated on American literature, cor- responding with their United States history, and learned correct parliamentary procedure. A new ex- perience faced by every eleventh grader was the com- position of an 1100-word term paper. More short stories and a final review of grammar were all a part of senior English. Shakespeare's plays highlighted a study of literature taken from many his- torical periods. Of course the senior term paper was a major project undertaken by these students as they put their thoughts into 2,000 words. MASTERING VERBALS by a concentrated joint study were sophomore English students Susan Smith and Janice Gappa.

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fe Past and Present Histor Point ut a i. . .,., , -'A' yy r g. N xi ,,..... , ,:.,.,,, x :xl- Anne Anderson World History 10 Guidance Paul Ehrhard World History 10 A Wrestling B Football Lettermenls Club Baseball Nicholas Cords Cultural History American Studies U. S. History 11 Alice Gammel James Gustafson World History 10 U. S. History 11 Sophomore Adviser A Football B Basketball To understand the past and to prepare for a better future were two of the purposes of the social studies department in senior high school. World history, a sophomore subject, presents the progress of every nation, its people and their cultures. Prehistoric man, the Classical Age, the Middle Ages, the Crusades and the Renaissance were a few of the topics studied the first year in senior high. The juniors also studied maps of geography and the purchases and annexations of the United States. By the end of the year the students had a brief and undetailed account of years of history, which would be helpful in college and future studies. 'AMEANS OF WAR certainly have changed, remarked American history student Donna Rusley as she and Terry Fahley examine Japanese World War II weapons. THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION,,, Asia,s Fertile Crescent, was pointed out by Judy Ness for Tom Counters. Page 18