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academic Hub’s Top Flight Program Meets New Challenge Sputniks, flying saucers, and little blue men created the sensation of the year. With the hysteria over Russia’s tremendous advances in science and in the arms race, American edu¬ cators began to stress more than ever high school science and math programs. Crown Point educators didn’t panic at the Sputnik news releases. They took stock of the situation as it existed, looked objectively at Crown Point standards, and discovered that C.P.H.S. students were already above average. Crown Point has more than the average number of students enrolled in math¬ ematics classes, with 648 in math classes and 436 attending science classes. Without put¬ ting extreme emphasis on science and mathe¬ matics and sacrificing the liberal arts, Crown Point manages to maintain the balance need¬ ed between science and liberal arts courses. C.P.H.S. is growing in many ways from the infant school of only one building on an 18- acre campus to the bustling school plant of five buildings and 23 acres that it presently occupies. Physical size and status as an edu¬ cational institution will further increase as the new addition of 12 special area classrooms and new gymnasium facilities, ready for construction after many delays, is put to use in 1959. The addition of more teachers to the faculty is another indication of expand¬ ing the educational offerings. Ever changing with the needs of students, the curriculum at Crown Point has undergone extensive revision and addition during the ’57-’58 school year. Offered for the first time at the beginning of this year was a course in commercial law. Its substitute for the second semester was a course in salesmanship. New chorus classes and band classes were added in both the high school and junior high, glee clubs were organized and the entire music department was expanded to include nearly 250 students in some sort of musical instruc- A course on developmental reading, stressing faster reading with greater comprehension, was offered for the first time. A semester course in personal typing made it easier for some students to have the advantages of a basic knowledge of typing fundamentals. Plans for even more expansion next year have been set to include sociology, auto mechanics, welding, music appreciation, beginning band, and a one semester course in speech. Films, shadowscopes—machines on which a book is mounted—and reading pacers are part of the new equipment obtained for students in the developmental reading class. The li¬ brary received a new checkout desk and ap¬ proximately 231 new books, while a new elec¬ tric mimeograph machine with no-smear ink was purchased for the office. Other new equipment included drill presses for the shop, a new gas stove for home economics, a stand¬ ard shift car for driver education classes, new typewriters, and illuminated bulletin boards. Tests were an important part of the academic picture, too. S.T.E.P. examinations in mathe¬ matics, English, science, and social studies compared Crown Point students’ averages with the national norms and indicated how much C.P.H.S.’ers were learning. The Schol¬ arship Qualifying Test, before given in Oc¬ tober to seniors to determine who would re¬ ceive scholarships, was made available this year to juniors in April for counseling pur¬ poses for their coming senior year. C.P.H.S. continues to grow in its evaluation of high school academic concepts. Next year new text books, new classes, and a new out¬ look will introduce new problems and chal¬ lenges, challenges which prepare Crown Point students for the self-sufficiency they must demonstrate when they enter the ouside world. Page seven
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Summer leisure ended as the “old routin scene... the main objective w to et th Tdt things ’’ Freshmen swarm from busses to receive first-day instructions via the eight-page (a first!) Inklings. Not uncommon is a line by the bookstore, which this year sold about $18,500 worth of supplies. Page eight
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