Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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Page twelve Learning how to weld various metals is one of the phases that Mr. Neuebauer is taught in Machine Shop. Mr. Naylor tells Mrs. Brink how she should space for a formal business letter. Adults come to school at C. P. H. S., too. Each Monday night the building sparkles under the fluo¬ rescent lighting as sixty adults borrow” our teach¬ ers and equipment to join classes in typing, short¬ hand, bookkeeping, mathematics, drawing, blue¬ printing, and driver training. All of the classes offered adults are offered to us as electives”, along with art, three other busi¬ ness classes, senior English, speech, journalism, three foreign languages, home ec, four industrial arts courses, three sciences, four music classes, two elective social study classes, and agriculture. A solid subject is one for which class meets daily. Two credits, which make up IS of the 32 credits required for graduation, are received for each of these classes. The state requires that each student take one year of physical education, one year of math, three years of English, one year of science, and two years of social studies. After these courses are fitted into his schedule, a student may choose any of the 31 electives offered by C. P. H. S. to complete his 32 credits. Clifford Connelly finds blueprint reading a problem, but when learned, it can be an asset to business.

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C [)orL ‘Jogrik ter The Hub invites us out to see them, too, so that we may see how their Hub works and so that we may learn to become good citizens of the Hub. Last summer Crown Point’s civic groups sent six boys to Boys’ State and 13 girls to Girls’ State, both on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. Chuck Collins, the Boy’s State representative spon¬ sored by the Rotary Club, was chosen Outstanding Citizen of the 195 5 Boys’ State and received the coveted Carl Graham award. Chuck was also presi¬ dent of his class for six consecutive years. This year for the first time the Rotary Club chose nine of the top senior boys as Junior Rotarians. Each month of the school year one of the boys at¬ tended the weekly Rotary meetings. By talking to the businessmen who make up their organization and listening to the weekly speakers, the boys learned how the Rotary works and how they can best serve the Hub they will enter next year.

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Writing shorthand, working algebra problems, studying psychology, reading literature, or reviewing for a final exam well occupies an hour in study hall. Room 208 .. . biggest room in the building . . . study hall. It means different things to each C. P. H. S.’er. To freshmen it was big and full of strange people, but okay once you were in and settled down where no one would notice you. For sophomores it was a time for fun. Juniors- and seniors did their best to get out” . . . and seniors very often did! But at sometime or other all of us study — not only because we have to, but because we feel better when we do ... as if some deep need has been satisfied. For honor student Charles Vandcrsee this scene has been typical for four years Page thirteen