Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Language, Arts, And Music Departments Add Putting the newly arrived supplies away are art students: Rog¬ er Williams and Lloyd Gray. Music and art-perhaps the two most cultural subjects at Calumet-are two institutions in which Calumet students take much pride. The many groups included in the music de¬ partment are the A Cappella choir, girl’s chorus, boy’s chorus, and freshman chorus. Two concerts are given annually by the A Cappella and, in addi¬ tion, they sing in hospitals and at area schools for Christmas. From the A Cappella a group called the Madrigals who sing primarily 16th century music are chosen. The art department also tackles many pro¬ jects during the school year including plans for Prom decorations. Students also learn to work in ink, to use a silk screen in stenciling, and various methods of bringing life to paintings and drawings. - 20 -

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“That Wonderful Year, 1963 ” in Academics Although each of us has different interests in school, we are all here for one basic purpose--to learn. Most students seldom stop to think that they may have learned something in the past year. After all, the average student spends a minimum of 198,000 minutes in academic classes during his high school career. Calumet offers a variety of courses to help students prepare for the business world or for col¬ lege. English, history, and math may be termed “dull” by students, but they are essentials in the modern world. For those students planning to go into business, courses such as bookkeeping, short¬ hand, and Business law are offered. Chemistry, for¬ eign languages, geometry, and four years of Eng¬ lish are “musts” for students planning on college. Each of us should set high academic goals. In attaining these goals, we will often find much fu¬ ture success and satisfaction. - 19 -

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Culture To Calumet Elaine Cox compares the French map with the one that she was assigned to draw for her French notebook. Two year courses in French, Latin, and Span¬ ish are offered at Calumet to help the students meet the demands of the world. Because of the ever mounting strides being made in the space pro¬ gram and the continual improvements in transpor¬ tation and communication, the world is seemingly growing smaller. With all the potential social ad¬ vancements ahead of the United States, it would be a terrible misfortune to have them checked, af¬ ter passing all propaganda barriers, by a language barrier. Calumet’s language courses help prepare stu¬ dents for college language and also gives them speaking background and knowledge of the struc¬ ture of the language. For those not continuing through college, a foreign language course strengthens the under¬ standing and use of the English language. Drawing pictures and labeling them in French are Melody Hinkle and Teresa Bennett. Studying their Latin assignment are Handy Stamper and Nan¬ cy Le Roy.