Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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 Where’s a dog? I don’t see any dogl Do you see a dog?” Roger Neibch is amazed and the rest of the class is convulsed at this social studies questionl One of the most powerful and inspiring social forces in the world today is Christianity. Marilyn Hengst here portrays Mary, the mother of Christ, in the Biblical play. The Terrible Meek. offers directions to travelers of the future These are critical days for us — “days that try men's souls. The lives of people everywhere are rapidly changing, and even more enormous changes loom ahead. Within our lifetime, we have seen changes made. Some of them are: color television, three dimensional movies, polaroid cameras, electric can openers, frost-free refrigerators, wall ovens, air conditioning, infra-red cooking, drip-dry fabrics, hair rollers, hair sprays, home permanents, hair dryers, contact lenses, frozen foods, instant mixes, instant coffee and tea, DDT, weed killers, cloud seeding, compact cars, helicopters, jets, satellites, turnpikes, miracle drugs, oral polio vaccines, and nuclear weapons. All growth means that changes are taking place. We welcome these changes because they represent progress. In commercial law class, Danny Abner and Susan Ahlm look at a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, which is the foundation of all the laws of our country.

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Getting a taste of what April 15 will mean when she becomes a wage-earner. Queen Darlene McReaken is engrossed in filling out a practice income tax form. This is a very practical project which is required of all seniors enrolled in American Government or American Problems. From the look of concentration, Darlene probably would agree that taxpayers do have problems. Social Studies maps the by-gone roads and so Yesterday is only a dream and tomorrow only a vision, so today is all that we actually have. But in order to understand this present and to plan for the future, it is important that we study the past. So important does the administration consider an understanding of the functioning of our government that to provide for this study, three units of social studies are required for graduation irom FCHS — no matter what curriculum the student may choose. Starting with world history and continuing through American history and American government, the required courses give a brief outline of the development of civilization. Then, for those who would like to be able to understand today s problems there are courses in commercial law, economics, and American problems. Because of modern communication and transportation, the world seems to be growing smaller and smaller. S. Gilula and P. Meredith find it necessary to become more familiar with places.

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Jay Kaiser is pointing to the tangent of the circle ot point D as Miss Pyatt's plane geometry class looks on. Library worker Helen Casey and practice teacher Mrs. Willard Zimbleman check out books to Charles Lamkin and Miss Martha Merrills. These will help them in their scientific and linguistic studies. Through the National Defense Education Act of 1958 FCHS has obtained a lot of new equipment for the guidance, foreign language, mathematics, and science departments. Under this act, the federal government pays part of the cost of equipment purchased by schools for use in certain designated fields of education. The biology room has been equipped with several storage cabinets, a human torso model, a human skeleton, an opaque projector, and the Life Nature Series. Plastic tops have been installed on the tables, which have been equipped with ninning water, electricity, and gas. The mathematics department has acquired a binary counter, a T-square, a drawing board, several books, and a set of plastic solid sections. The chemistry department received books and a new hood for exhausting dangerous gasses. In the physics room much new equipment has been installed. Among the items are: a Van der Graaf static machine, an AC-DC demonstration radio, a recording barometer, a spectroscope, an audio generator, a stereophonic amplifier, a turntable, an AM-FM tuner, an oscilloscope, a stereo tape recorder, two gyroscopes, a Classmaster Geiger counter, a Kater’s pendulum, and a 15 volume Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Science, mathematics On behalf of the cafeteria, Mrs. Newton, head cook, is accepting a new coffee maker from Tim Tevdovich, Cafeteria Club president. Mrs. Wright, cafeteria worker, was in charge of collecting the money for the urn, which was a surprise to Mrs. Newton. 12