Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Special Programs Encourage Teenage Minds JOE BERG—FIRST ROW: Tom Torrie, Paul Dawson, and Jeff Davies. SECOND ROW: Helen Young, Maria Velligan, Sally Stewart, Karen Skubish, Karen Pittman, Sybil Russell, and Susan Cbarbonneau. FOREIGN AFFAIRS—Left to right: Joyce Dixon, Steve Whetmore, Karen Skubish, John Karedes, and Liz Henderson. Although there is a dance almost every Wednesday night, the small group pictured below are able to attend only a few of them. Their Wednesdays are reserved for the Gary Joe Berg Advanced Study Program. Joe Berg, a Milwaukee industrialist, founded this program for the advancement of sciences and humanities outside of the schools. Students recommended by teachers are given special tests by the Berg instructors. Those who receive the highest scores from each school are chosen as representatives and take the course they desire in science, humanities, and foreign languages. The projects for the year were indeed fascinating. The psychol¬ ogy department did research on the problem of cheating in school. Chemistry students experimented on the treating and finishing of modern textiles. The study of radiation was the topic of the physics section. The biology department did re¬ search with various cultures. Another special student program is the World Affairs Forum. Members meet at a different school each month to discuss the various phases of the world problems. The host school pre¬ sents a panel discussion on a specific topic chosen at the be¬ ginning of the year. Emerson’s topic was “The Testing and Tam¬ ing of Nuclear Power.” Miss Hazel Greiger sponsors the group.

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FBLA girls sell taffy apples for their organization. Organizations Inside EHS Be it called club, organization, staff, association, council, or committee, it is still a group of Emerson teenagers who are taking on responsibilities that will help them find a place in our modern society. Each gets experience in working along with other students. Proj¬ ects are often difficult and time consuming, but here is an opportunity to make use of talents, meet new people, and train oneself to organize club time with homework time. Some activities are extracurricular and some are co- curricular. Orchestra, Band, Art Qub, Newstaff, Annual Staff, Spanish Club, Latin Club, Drama Club, Science Club, Desines, A Cappella, Glee Qub, ROTC, DE, and FBLA do their part after school hours but are also part of the curriculum. Student Council, Honor Society, Majorettes, Social Committee, Booster Com¬ mittee, Majorettes, and FTA must handle all of their business outside of school hours. Without organizations life would be a monotonous go-to-school-come-home-and- do-homework situation. This the student’s opportunity for a change of scenery. Everyone should have some extracurricular or co- curricular experience that stands out in his memory. Some of these might be meeting an annual or news¬ paper deadline, attending the Latin picnic or Spanish Fiesta, singing at Vesper Service, standing guard at Memorial or in the cold open air at Gilroy, going on an FBLA business trip, playing at a concert, being in¬ ducted into Honor Society, twirling at Gilroy, playing records at the dances, preparing for Homecoming, being a student substitute for an absent teacher, or preparing a talk to be given before an assemblage of the student body. Regardless of one’s personal experience, everyone should enjoy reviewing the . . . Organizations Inside EHS. 19