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

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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

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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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a Student jC owncjQ to 0„r Jl.l Lots of new things were added to C.P.H.S. this year. The Buzz Book” was the child of the Inklings, our weekly newspaper. For the first time C.P.- H.S.’ers had the chance to have at their fingertips the name, address, grade, and telephone number of every student and teacher — all in one book, the student directory. Many new fads and fashions were introduced this year. Chiffon neck scarves were favorites worn with sweaters and, when winter came, girls favored either a little angora half-cap” or a woolly shawl to keep their ears warm in Hoosier ice-land.” Senior cords — both slacks and skirts — added color to our halls, too, and before long juniors came up with an answer to the seniors — gray felt hats worn loooooow! They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but Ed Urbanski thinks the Buzz Book is a boy’s best friend when it comes to getting a date. Page eighteen