Bishop David High School - Crosier Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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» m Living the Faith Desides the retreat program and the senior service program, the Religious Studies Department provided various liturgical experiences throughout the year. The senior retreat program was sabotaged halfway through the year because Presentation no longer wished to participate with the department in providing co-ed retreats. The junior coun- selor and assistant chaplain, Fr. Gary Palangio, C.R., set about to establish a retreat program for the juniors. Several retreats were held for the juniors at St. Thomas Center. The senior service program allowed seniors to spend Thursdays during the second semester at various institutions in the area volunteering their help in order to put Christian action to work in their lives. The freshmen and sophomores took religion for only one semester each year and rotated them, on a quarter basis, with physical education and health. The juniors took peace and justice, morality, and scrip- ture. Seniors took a marriage course, taught by Mr. John Moll, a doctrine course, theology of liberation, and church in the future courses. (P) Tutoring a youngster in reading, senior. David Mat- tingly. takes part in thesenior service program which gave the graduating class the chance to serve the community. Leading the congregation in the Lord ' s Prayer. Fr. Gary Palangio, C.R . helped the National Honor Society celebrate their induction with a mass at St. Denis. Serving the mass were: Gerard Mattingly and Donny Fowler. Religion 21

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A meeting of the minds Stepping out from behind the podium. Mr. David Stemie makes a point during a debate on, Will Capitalism Stay? He and Mr. Bzron Himmelheber, ala Karl Marx, said, o, while from left, Mr. Tim Hyland, posing as Adam Smith, and Bro, Roland Driscoll, C.S.C. said, Yes . In the middle, Mr. Tom Merimee took a compromise position. Next to him, Mr. Ken Black moderated the debate. Junior social studies students were treated to a new educational experience in the form of a special symposium on the topic of Capitalism. It was a You Are There debate with various faculty mem- bers assuming the roles of historical characters. All seniors took the required government economics course with an op- portunity to take the elective, anthropology, or current events courses. Ecology was another elective offered by the Social Studies Department. Another elec- tive was Mr. Ron White ' s college credit sociology course offered to seniors and a non-college-credit course to juniors. Perhaps the biggest change was the fact that there was no world history taught at the school because both juniors and sophomores were taught the required U.E. history course. Next year the world history course will be reinstated in the junior year so that all sophomores would have U.S. history and all juniors would have world history. The freshmen were all required to take a geography course. @ ZO Social Studies

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Helping the faculty adjust to the upcoming change to the metric system in the 1980 ' s, Mr, Kevin Brever makes a point about meters during a faculty workshop. Diligently answering questions are: Walt Reichert, Lisa Stucker, Gerald Wilkinson, Ed SCHICKEL, John Moll, Bro. Jude, Tim Hyland, Keith Higdon, and Mike Egan. The faculty goes to school t one of the first faculty workshops of the year, the Science Department took on the chore of teaching the entire faculty the metric system. Department members taught the faculty the various uses of the metric system so that they would be able to be ready when the metric system is adop- ted by the U.S. in the 1980 ' s. Mr. Kevin Brever taught how distance is measured, Mr. Tom Martin taught mass, and Miss Diane Vance taught volume. Lab courses in biology and chemistry were a departure from normal classroom lecture methods used, for the most part, in other courses. One course, Mr. Tom Mar- tin ' s frosh science, went outdoors to demonstrate the principles of rocketry on occasion. Sophomores took life science, chemical science, and chemistry. Juniors took chemistry and advanced biology while the seniors were offered an elective in physics. The freshmen took physical science and biology. The Math Department was a separate department under the leadership of Mr. Bill Young. Electives in this department in- cluded: Drafting, calculus, and probabilities and statistics. Sophomores took algebra trigonometry or geometry and basic math courses. The frosh were offered algebra and basic math. @ To see exactly how much hot air Mr, Robert Eckert really does put out, the Science Department tests his lung capacity during a faculty workshop on metrics. 2 Science