Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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The Industrial Revolution in Frankfort High Lit. Class: Don’t you know the King’s English? • 10 —

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Chemistry, Language, Reading In Chem classes young alchemists are taught how not to do many things. A minor uproar is caused when one does turn lead into gold. For the most part, however, chemistry students wander aimlessly through the halls chanting valences while bumping into people. It’s sort o’ like yoga; all sense of time and directionare lost and the eyes of those affected become glassy. In the language lab subject matter is taught with the help of all sorts of electronic gadgets. Fast Side Story goes multilingual. The machines are so much smarter than the students that they occasionally shout back, “I know, I know.” In reading lab, techniques are developed that enable students to read anything, even books of such consummate art as this, in a Language Lab in action, short elapsed time. Reading Lab, Darkly Through A Shadowscope. — 9 —

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Driver's Training Space filler. Pull up beside that car; ask if he wants to drag. History Class: So’s the Queen. The eager student seeking knowledge learned to navigate a horseless carriage in driver’s training and how to build it or put it back together in industrial shop or auto shop. In English literature the same student would learn a little of Shakespeare and a frightful large amount about Macbeth. Gulliver’s Travels and Return of the Native were also studied. In history class this avid student now bending under the weight of all this knowledge would learn about the heroes of American history and legend; the Gray Ghost of the Confederacy, John Paul Jones, Admiral Halsey, Admiral Nimitz, Commodore Porter, and other Famous People. The Test Wasn’t Too Hard . . —n—