Dupo Community High School - El Tigre Yearbook (Dupo, IL)

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History Helps Students y as as Gale Rhine, left, and Kenny Davis examine a sample voting machine. United States History, a required course, stresses the study of American society and politics from the colonial period to the present day, thus giving the student historical perspective which is necessary for an intelligent understanding of cur- rent problems in our society. This course is required by the laws of the-State of Illinois. Included in the course of study is a study of the United States Constitution, the Illinois Constitution and the American Flag. I l

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Industrial Arts Students Prepare for Future Industrial Arts courses are an important part of boys curriculum at D.C.H.S. In charge of mechanical draw- ing, wood shop, leathercraft, and electricity is Mr. Rey- nolds. Mr. Stewart teaches metal shop and printing. 'K X QT I2 Y - - ,L- a t M '-sssn fi . Freshmen watch a demonstration on the proper use of a wood lathe. Mike Sager demonstrates the fundamental operations of a metal lathe to a group of freshman boys. I9

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Become Desirable Citizens Left to Right: Barbara Camp, Maxine Strauther, and Cynthia Upchurch are pointing out three maior powers of early European history. ln World History, by studying the actions and reactions of man's past, we hope to be able to think clearly and with an open mind about the problems of our present and thus become active and desirable citizens in our Democratic Society. A study is made of various social topics which are vital to an understanding of the relation of the past to the present. In World History, we are able to become acquainted with many of the govern- ments and social movements of the past and apply that which is good and eliminate that which is undesirable in our social and political thinking of today.