Bloomington High School - Gothic Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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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

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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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: ; ' ‘ A StS) Este i EE eS MRS. SARAH FRANKLIN, Advanced Grammar and MRS. VIRGINIA ELKIN, English Composition We Read Great Books, Made The wrath of Achilles, the woes of Margaret and Ge- rard, the schemes of Machiavelli excite the readers in the World Lit. classes. World Lit. students read late into the night on assignments in some of the world's great books as preparation for college lit. English Lit. classes read Shakespeare and Chaucer in another specialized senior course. So that future college freshmen won't be com- pletely dismayed by IU's Comp 101, the BHS English Department offers an advanced course in grammar and composition. MRS. TOMMIE ZACHARIAS, World Lit.; English, de- MRS. JEANNE HOLLINGSWORTH, Language Arts partment head 22