Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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language skills Making more extensive use of audio-visual equipment, the language and speech depart- ments sought to give students a thorough knowledge of the En- glish language and a greater fluency in foreign language. Discussions, debates, and dra- matics were pursued by speech students, as experience was gained through participation in the American Legion, Rotary, and Forensic speech contests. Impromptu and demonstrative speeches on such items as put- ting on false eyelashes and how to fly a broom added animation. Along with term papers, pa- perbacks b e c o m e a more stressed part of the English pro- gram, as many were studied. Language teachers empha- sized the hopes for the addition of Spanish and Russian to the curriculum. Far Left Above: Gary Williams and Alice McDonald utilize the speed reading machine. Left: Attired in ear-phones, German students Kay Baxter, Brad Affol- der, and Rich Collier concentrate on tapes. Above Middle: Mike Bedwell, Lois Mc- Donald, and Karen Green play house in Latin. Top Right: Laying her finger aside of her nose, Cheryl Knudsen gives her speech word of the day. Above: Cheryl Ann Miller and Dan Linder view French Christmas cards.

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I---l Projecis. new apparaius siimulaie learning Under The supervision of The Three science Teachers, many proiecis and experimenis were aTTempTed. Among These activi- Ties was The planning and build- ing of a small compufer by Mr. Torson and inTeresTed pupils. New apparaTus and equip- menT acTed as a direcT sTimuli To The sTudenTs in Their sTudy. In Biology Il, for example, chemi- cals and dyes were purchased for new meThods of invesfi- gaiion. Once again, math was of- fered on four levels. Along wiTh The convenfional sTudies, Cl new ocilloscope a i cl e d advanced classes in Their work wiTh graphs and TuncTions of angles.