Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Last August this old Iron Horse took its last trip past our school from the Monon tracks into nearby Broad Rip- ple Park, where it now stands commemorating the passing era of the steam engine. New churches were added to our community signifying in- creased devotional activities. New homes and business build- ings were built to take care of the needs of our expanding village. In 1956 BIG was the word for our Home- town, for Broad Ripple was a fast-growing community in the northeast section of Indianapolis. And BIG was the word, too, for BRHS — a teen-age home where 1,789 students studied in 60 class- rooms, an up-to-date library, and w ell- equipped laboratories, BIG was our partici- pation in community activities and the community ' s part in our activities — an exchange of interest aptly symbolized by our 17-float Homecoming Parade down Broad Ripple Avenue on September 30.

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Rusty Sage and Anne Carr dissected a rat in Ripple ' s new Advanced Biology. One of the few full second-year biology courses in the state, it emphasized individual lab work and written investiga- tion on college level. 1 iS B H fl mkfk y ■3 i l - 2 ' m .. ir jM j BIGGER was the word in ' 56 for Ripple ' s expanded curriculum of 130 courses. Added this year were Advanced Biology and Advanced Composition and Grammar. BIGGER than ever were enrollments in foreign language classes. And BIGGER was also the word for our athletic teams, which rolled up scores like 92-57 in basketball. BRHS ' s reputation for top-ranking new ideas in education was made BIGGER than ever this year with our first-time-in-Indiana lecture series by college professors. The object : how to listen to and take notes on college lectures. Lecturing to college-bound seniors in the second of an experi- - — mental series, Dr. Philip Wikelund, professor of English at Indiana University, presented the fundamentals of composition.