Central High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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World circumstances affect Social Studies Keeping abreast with the ever-changing world, the Social Studies Department created new interests with a few changes. This year the U.S. History classes of Central added more and better information on Black History. Keep- ing the two studies together, teachers had students rotate the two books as they worked through the past. Western Civilization classes changed a little too. In- stead of concentrating on the whole book, Lloyd Bateman emphasized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foreign Relations studied the different relationships of the countries of the world. Guest speakers visited the classes, telling of the customs from their lands. Many students were assigned to bring to class articles Above: Seniors Susan Williams and George Huff take time before class concerning current events, to look over a time line for economics. Below: Junior Sonny Fee directs the attention of his class as he points to the U. S. map. 22 academics

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Ab° t: Seniors Mike Harris. Cindy Cone. Sue Gardner, and Cyndi Laurent discuss (he general aspects of Germany Below: Senior Diane Reynolds informs her classmates in third year Spanish of the many Latin American-made products academics 21

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Foreign Relation students, junior Debbie Hyde, sophomores Becky Gregor and Bryent Mitchell, watch the replays of a guest speaker. Below: In order to pass a chapter test, senior Nancy Burden reads up on her Western Gv- ilization. Senior Lynda Wyatt and sophomore Shay Rosenfeld dress in Arab costumes to bring realism to Foreign Relations academics 23