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

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IdJ ictftcr 4 cadcmicj Vocational, or Some students choose an academic course in preparation for college. Each year more of these students are taking the elective social studies and speech classes. Today, with the improvement of communication and transportation methods, the world of each in¬ dividual is expanding. In previous years high school students needed to learn only to get along with the persons making up their immediate environment. Today we must learn to understand people in all parts of the world. Through our world history and geography classes we learn how these people are liv¬ ing, what they have done in the past, and why. Through English and speech classes we learn to put into words the way we feel and what we think about people, thereby opening the door to world understanding. Do you know where Lower Slobobia is? Well, Donna Cris- singer and Carol King seem to have no trouble in finding it. Page sixteen

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Although each of us is different, it is easy for all of us to remain an active part of the Hub because C. P. H. S. offers enough courses to fit the needs of each individual. Many girls and boys, too, take advantage of the Hub’s excellent commercial department. The busi¬ ness classes send many C. P. H. S.’ers into secre¬ tarial work, or accounting, or any of the hundreds of other careers available in the business world. Those with special talents may choose art, and students who like to work with numbers find satisfaction in sol id geometry and trigonometry. Priscilla Dean watches John Straka paint the finishing touches on his unique painting of an oriental tree. You may not, but Stan Owen and Jim Graeber understand these weird geometric figures they’re looking at. Rochelle Bellamy and Madonna Douglas demonstrate ma¬ chines used by students in commercial classes. Page fifteen

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usiness, C. T-MS. Offer, 4U Not being satisfied with telling students how and why things are to be done in a certain way, C.P.H.S. also gives us a chance to put into practice what is being taught in the classroom through home ec, industrial arts, and agriculture. Because C.P.H.S. is neither a city school nor a rural school, it is able to offer courses found in both types of living. The agriculture department owns its own farm land which the boys themselves farm. They also have both a gilt and a heifer ring, which gives the boys a chance to start their own herds. With the new industrial arts building, which was used all year for the first time in 1956, we now have one of the best industrial and vocational education programs of any high school. The home ec department, too, has its own build¬ ing, which, although not new, was the first in In¬ diana to house a separate home economics depart¬ ment. A sewing machine can be a puzzle when you’re members of a freshman sewing class as are Sandra Luke and Joan Misek. Page seventeen