Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Roy Frye explains an aspect of eighth grade math to Dorothy Heifer and Brenda Allee Jack Lammcrtin and Elizabeth Yorkis study a model used in health and safety classes. 21

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Physics, Equipment Add To Science, Math Curricuh New equipment and a new course served to brighten the science and math departments’ 1963 school year. Mr. L. Mann and Mr. R. Johns taught the University of Illinois Com- mittee on Secondary Math (UICSM) course for its second year at Gavit. This four-year math course, a new approach to math, is designed to make the students reach math conclusions. For the first time, Gavit offered physics, which was taught by Mr. J. Jeffries. Through their discussions, lab periods and experiments, the physics classes made studies in energy, me- chanics, sound, light and heat. Health and safety students received several new pieces of equipment, some of which were models of the organs, the human torso and the human skele- ton. Each class also saw such movies as Heart, Lungs, and Circulation”. In biology, students dissected worms, starfish, frogs and fish under the super- vision of Mr. C. Smead, their instructor. Bill Thcgzc works on putting a geometry problem on the board for Mr. M. Horoda’s class. Juniors Doug Klein and Lester Core by using the pulley perform an experiment for physics class, a course instituted at GHS this year.

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Lecturers, Movies, Records Enliven Social Studies Miss H Bunker shows a boomerang to junior high students Bob Vevurka and Chris Whitney. Speakers, movies and records added interest to the social studies department curriculum this school year. American history classes increased their knowledge of America and her relation to the rest of the world when they heard Mr. R. Batchelor speak on the educational, economic and social facets of Samoa. He accompanied his lectures with slides of the island. History VI classes had several speak- ers discuss unions and management. Mr. T. Swanson, a union representative, related the union’s problems; Mr. D. Denham discussed those related to management; and personnel supervisor at American Steel Foundries, Inc., Mr. J. Sanders, spoke on procedures for setting various grievances. Geography classes stressed the use of maps and slides to aid the students in their studies of foreign people, their cultures, customs and governments Mr. T. Chintis asks juniors Jeanette McCarty and Phil Kwolek a map question as his American History VI class awaits the answer