Edison High School - Torch Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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-ENGLISH, HISTORY Past Social Conditions Influence Present Trends l-larassed by many new concepTs and burdened wiTh The responsibiliTies oT young adulTs, iunior high and senior high sTudenTs alike Took reTuge in Their English classes, The sancTuaries oT expression. ThoughTs were guided Trom The ElizabeThan Age and Wil- liam Shakespeare To Russia, The land and birThplace oT TolsToy, Then ineviTably To The world oT grammar. The l-lumaniTies class aT Edison,lThe only one oT iTs kind in Tulsa, dis- played eagerness Tor an undersTanding oT The arTs and Took advanTage oT many Tilms, Tield Trips, and recordings during This, iTs second year. IT one doesn'T know where he's been, how can he know where he's going. Coming closer To This concepT This year Than They've come in The pasT, Edison's hisTory classes delved inTo The archives oT yesTerday and broughT To lighT many new ideas and Theories as To why mankind is aT The sTage oT develop- menT iT is Today. SubsTiTuTing visual-aide equipmenT Tor The TradiTional blackboard , hisTory Teachers gave new liTe To and a beT- Ter undersTanding oT our heriTage. Aided by Mr. James STaTTord's excellenl- guidance, CaThy Liddy pl 5. ' fir' 3 f .ei We Reading sTories To her granddaughTers, Dixie and Debra, oc Chloe l.ane's ouT-of-school Time. aces The Tinal Touches on a map oT American cliscove . cupies much of Mrs. I 1 1.

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Ufl 'l'h I lb I M R hl PII d I+ if I ly I lh enuncnalion and pronunc hon of her Spanish sludenls. -FOREIGN LANGUAGE Communicative Mediums Teach Foreign Customs ljaec schola suis disgipulis iaculfalem slu- diendi curriculi de linguis peregrinis per sex annos professa esl. Un efludianl' approfondil sa connaissance de la langue par des bandes de magnelophone. des disgues, el des films. Deuisch erwies sich als so laszinierend, dass es fuer ein zweiles Jahr versuchl' wurde. Muchos alumnos iodavia querian esludiar las idomas Jrradicionales como el lalin, el lrances y el espanol. Edison offered io ils siudenls an oppor- lunily 'ro sludy as many as six courses of for- eign languages. Through Tape recordings, rec- ords. and films, a sludenl' became familiar wiih a languages characlerislics. German slill proved fascinaling for il was conlinued for a second year. The lhree lradilional lan- guages, Laiin, French, and Spanish were slill popular choices of many siudenls. Niclrnamed Lollipop, Mrs. Bealrice Nolley adds zesl 'ro lhe supposedly dead Lalin language. I I

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sled by Gary Baldwin, Mrs. Helen Smilh creales class inleresl ough 'lhe use of a decoralive bullelin board. 4 1 Examining a rock specimen, Mr. Roberl' Cope adiusls 'lhe miscroscope. -SCIENCE, MATH Technological Comprehension Challenges Advanced Classes Calling upon advanced equipmenl and lexi- boolcs, lhe science 'reachers al Edison displayed eag- erness lo reveal 'ro 'rheir sludenls an increasingly lech- nological and space-age world. Well-supervised and well-equipped rooms aided inslruclors in mainlain- ing an excellenl academic almosphere in which slu- denls of The sciences worked and learned. A field nol ollen lhoughl ol as a branch ol sci- ence is malhemalics. lnslruclors helped sludenls in lhe underslandinq of lheories and in lhe compre- hension of malhemalical poslulales. Membership in an exlra-curricular malh club, MU ALPHA THETA was available lo lhose who underslood numerical concepls exceplionally well. Spurred by an enlhusias- lic, well-qualified slali, each malh sludenl beneliled from 'rhe besl possible inslruclion. Proof of a geomelric poslulale challenges Mrs. Mariorie Landry. 1 4