Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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Mediterranean For cenTuries, educaTion was based mainly on sTudies of The classical culTures. Even with . The modern emphasis on science and progressive educafion, The sTudy of The Greek and Roman culTures is an essenTial parT of Today's curriculum, Canal aT Venice, lTaly AlmosT all Beverly Travelers spenT Time in lTaly, ln Venice a gondola ride along The canals conTrasTed wiTh such hisToric sighTs as loeauTiTul ST. Mark's CaThedral which sTands as a monumenT To The mixing of Islamic and ChrisTian culTures. In Rome, Melody Cornell, Sue Davidson, and Connie Kamahele found Themselves enTranced wiTh The archiTecTural beauTy and engineering oT The Forum, a sTurdy reminder of The Roman Empire's legacy To civilizaTion. Those Travelers To The Near EasT enioyed Greece, boTh modern and ancienT. Junior Jon Davis lived There wiTh his Tamily for almosT a year. In AThens, The caryaTids, supporTs for The Temple of AThena, sTand norTh of The ParThenon on The Acropolis, which, illumin- aTed aT nighT, is a breaThTaking reminder of The Age of Pericles. Porch of The Caryafids, Acropolis, Athens ln fronf of The Forum of The Caesars Rome CaThedral of ST. Mark, Venice Acropolis aT nighT, AThens

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wr.-1 ,517 Some ot the students travelled in small groups. They wanted to see the world from a different point of view. Seniors Jon Slutsky and Tom Gaines toured Europe by bicycle, staying at youth hostels in small villages and taking their Travels at a slow pace. Beverly students saw all phases of England. Whether by Westminster Abbey, main hall pedal or plane, most of them visited Canterbury Cathedral. Jon- Slutsky photographed the exterior view here. Junior Ira Moskatel took the picture ot the main sanctuary of West- minster Abbey in London, sight of many controversies in English history. Seeing an entirely different view of the British lsles, Senior Jett Seltzer included in' his itinerary a visit to Stone- henge. This remarkable construction was built prior to 1500 B,C. by an- ancient civilization apparently seeking to explain some of the mysteries of astronomy. if 1' - ' ,rim 'W-W,,1,r,.,., tw, - ' - . g. 1., L 5' -,lars7ri'i6fi:gJ:rJ1'. u f r u f l w irltlilllllllliviirlrifirliifilr.'fr1i:iiil,v,'V we 'N . , ,wwf 1-1 If- vi. 'i wifi, trim German England Canterbury Cathedral .1-- - Stonehenge

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The basis OT The Three maior religions of The wesTern world is cenTered in The counTries of The Near Near EasT. Beginning wiTh The Jewish TradiTions and laTer The hisTory of ChrisTianiTy, Israel has played an imporTanT parT in The shaping of wesTern life. Jeff SelTzer and his Tamily Toured EgypT, Greece, Israel, and Jordan, concenTraTing on The ancienT civilizaTions which formed The basis of wesTern his- Tory. 5 I n E Mural in Tomb aT Karnak, Egypt GreaT Temple aT Karnak, EgypT The ancienT EgypTians leTT us greaT archiTecTural re- mains. Jeff SelTzer Took The picTure of a mural carved and painTed on The wall of The Tomb of a Pharaoh. Near Luxor he phoTographed The handsome ruins oT ancienT Temple pillars of Karnak, and in IsTanbul he Tound The lovely mosque silhoueTTed againsT The sky. Blue Mosque of SulTan Ahmed, lsTanl::ul