Alwood High School - Alwood Album Yearbook (Woodhull, IL)

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MUSIC, P. E. AND VOCATIONAL CLASSES Steve is happy in industrial arts! Soil testing in ag class. Vocational education classes available at AlWood are industrial arts, agriculture, home economics, and business education. Agriculture class content here would reveal our approximate geographical location as being in the corn, hog, and cattle feeding section of the United States. Again, we are typically mid western. Music is very popular here. About 60 per cent of the entire student body is in eitherbandor chorus or both. Physical education class every day is a must for every student at AlWood High, except for a medical excuse. Karolyn balances her debits and credits in bookkeeping. A small group can make music as well as a large one, if they practice. Girls' P.E. is no sissy affair here.

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MATH, SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES Freshmen tackle Algebra I. Our math department is growing to provide the necessary mathematics for engineering. Four years of math are now available--algebra I, geometry, advanced algebra and trigonometry, and college algebra and solid geometry. The algebra I and geometry lay the basic foundation of mathematical knowledge for the advanced two years of math. From these last two years of math come the engineers and physicists of AlWood. Of the students who have taken advantage of the fourth year of math, 36 per cent have gone into engineering study at colleges or universities. The science department is offering general science, biology, chemistry and physics. General science covers the three basic sciences--biology, chemistry, and physics. Biology involves the study of plants and animals, and physiology. Dissecting animals is a favorite sport here. Chemistry concerns the study of the elements and how they combine. Valences give our future chemists present headaches. Physics is the study of energy and how it is measured, used, and produced in our everyday life. Our social studies department consists of American problems, world history, and U.S. history. In these courses we study the politics, economics, history and government of our own and other countries. Biologists seem interested. Mr. Miller's history class learns that new history is being made every day. THE 49TH STATE

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STANDING: Mr. Behnke--Adviser, Karen Swanson, Pat Clarke, Judy Cathcart, Caroline Pople, Karo-lyn Watters, Judy Bowman, Nancy Miller, Mrs. Swanson--Adviser. SEATED: Diane Bodeen, Joan Briggs, Janet McLaughlin, Susan Johnson, Marilyn Barlow, Florence Johnson. Scholarship, Leadership, Character, Service. These are the bases on which National Honor Society members are chosen. They are selected by the faculty from the junior and senior classes after the end of the first semester each year. Later the new members are inducted in an assembly ceremony. Officers Joan Briggs..........Treasurer Marilyn Barlow .... -Secretary Susan Johnson........Vice President Janet McLaughlin . . . President 14