Christopher Dock High School - Schul Andenken Yearbook (Lansdale, PA)

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Leaving the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Betty Myers and Andrea Wisler reflect con- I lnto rt Curriculum Twenty three art major students started the year with a unit in photography, taking and developing their own photographs. Field trips were taken to furniture stores and art museums in New York and Philadelphia. Students exhibited photography, ceramics, paintings, and sculpture at various times throughout the year. cerning objects of art they have seen. Mr. Yoder shows novice photographers how to insert the negative into the carrying tray ofthe enlarger. lumni Gives Grand Piano At their annual dinner in December, the Alumni Association presented to the school a Mason-Hamlin concert grand piano. t Music Director Ralph Alderfer finds it useful in music apprecia- i tion and voice classes. It complements special choral l productions. Mr. Alderfer delights in the rich tones of the new concert grand piano. if , t. Q li? ' .si t

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Students Practice Practical Arts The Home Economics Major Class, an elective only for Seniors, prepares the girls for their future world, that of being a mother. A nine-week course of planning and serving meals requiring advanced food preparation was cli- maxed by a full course dinner prepared by each section. For the first time in the curriculum a three-week course in knit- ting was given. Home decorating, child care, and family health are also studied. Electrical Technology presents a challenge for Tim Cassel's accurate hand. Each day ten junior and senior boys travel from Christopher Dock to the North Montco Vocational-Technical School. They study auto body repair, carpentry, electrical engineering and machine trades. These courses include rebuilding and refinishing automobile bodies, all phases of construction, wir- ing and repairing electrical equipment, and setting up operating machines. Eighth period home-ec girls chatter over their knitting. me Senior girls learn how to entertain under Miss Swartzendruber's instruction. Ralph Hedrick and Dennis Delp repair mechanical parts. 1 8 l i l

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Students Seek Solutions to Social Problems Learning from our world, understanding what has made our nation great, exploring all peoples of the world, and developing self-understanding, this is all a part of social studies. Two new teachers have been added to the social studies department. Mr. Halteman teaches United States History, economics, and govern- ment, and Mr. Lichty teaches introductory social stud- ies and world cultures. In the fall the world cultures class traveled to the Unit- ed Nations Building in New York where they observed diplomats from around the world uniting for the cause of peace. The United States History classes had as their project a term paper. Required reading included Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story of the United States' unscrupulous slave owners, and The jungle, which told of the imi- grants' struggles in the U.S. New teachers, Mr. Lichty and Mr. Halteman, discuss problems of democracy. 20 Politician Philip Landis campaigns with city clean-up as his goal. Psychology class views a film strip depicting prob- lems facing youth.