Bloomington High School - Gothic Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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LS ee i | don't see how they do it,’ Becky Watson reflects as she admires the MRS. MARGARET RAAB, Art art display. Creative Hands Fashion, Sketch, and Paint What is Art? Painters paint it; critics discuss it; BHS teaches it in varied forms to appeal to meat many tastes and needs. Junior high art teaches Ps BLOOMINGTON ; ; ; . Poe Reese re tion. Art | emphasizes creative design and craftsmanship and gives the student a glimpse into other types of art—commercial art, ceram- ics, drawing, and painting. Those courses are of- fered in detail in Ceramics, Silver, Commercial Art, and Drawing and Painting. Understanding Art attempts to enable students to enjoy good art. basic art principles of color, line, and composi- MR. EARL GRAVES, Art 20

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| CHARLES MINNEMEYER, MIKE TAYLOR, DAVID | VAUGHN, JOHN SHELTON honored in NMSQT. Qualify Nationally and Build a State PAULA BROWN, CAROLE DOUTHITT, SUZIE SANBORN, JUDY PICKENS, ANN JACOBS, PHYLLIS TATE at- tended Hoosier Girls' State. Raise your voices, raise them high, girls in long lines sang as they marched around the Indiana University campus at Hoosier Girls’ State. Hoosier Girls’ State is sponsored annually by the American Legion Auxiliary. Girls prepare themselves to be better citizens by par- ticipating in a mock party .convention, city, county, state elections, and both houses of the legislature. This year Ann Jacobs, Suzanne Sanborn, Carole Douthitt, Phyllis Tate, Judy Pickens, and Paula Brown attended Girls’ State. Hoosier Boys’ State is a state run like Girls’ State and sponsored by the American Legion. Delegates to the two conferences come from all over Indiana to live on the IU campus for eight days. Attending Boys’ State were Greg Myers, Ron Hines, Ron Roberts, and Rich- ard Stogsdill. Every year in the spring, juniors take the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The NMSQT tests the individual's ability to use language and mathematics. This year, BHS had two boys who became semi-finalists, Michael Chandler and David Vaughn. Letters of Com- mendation were given to Charles Minnemeyer, John Shelton, and Michael Taylor. RON HINES, RON ROBERTS, RICHARD STOGSDILL, GREG MYERS attended Boys’ State.

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succes 26 $2 BS Ra BR ge ay Te 8 a 29 24 “28 Sh. RE MR. CARL FRYE, Enjoying Music and department | head. MR. RICHARD COLE, Madrigals, Chorus, Choir MRS. ANNA COLE, Music Songsters and Bandsmen Serenade Old BHS Strike up the band! Music! Music! Music! The BHS high bands and orchestras. Another course open to Music Department has a course suited to almost ev- music students is Enjoying Music. Enjoying Music |} eryone's needs. At the junior high level, students gives the student a chance to hear classical music, to | take a general music course covering music history, become familiar with the musical instruments, and | music of other countries, great composers, singing, to become a discriminating listener. Music majors | and music theory. For interested music-lovers, BHS are required to study Music Theory and Harmony offers choir, a girls’ chorus, and a special group of and Music History and Appreciation, a two semester Madrigal Singers, and both junior high and senior course. MR. DONALD NEAL, Orchestra MR. DONALD TRAUB, Band