Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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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

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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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Steve Johnson, Jerry De Boer, Wayne Hepp, Don Gordon and Dennis Werner practice for the spring concert while Jim Roper accompanies them Various Music Classes Develop Basic Choral Skills Listening to a jazz record are Margaret Gardner, John G roe sc he and Rich Hochman Through the various music classes and choruses students developed basic music skills. Students studied voice, production of vocal sound, diction, enunciation and foreign languages from reading music of different lands. Music curriculum aimed at a further development of vocal technique, a greater stress on vocal training and the study of choral music styles. Much attention had been given to interpretive ability. A wide variety of music was taught to the junior and senior high. In the junior high the music de- partment was divided into two years of work. The students practiced develop- ment of good singing habits and un- derstanding the language of music. Through music seventh and eighth grade students studied not only the culture of the United States but also that of other countries. In May selected students from all the music classes joined with students from other schools to sing in the an- nual music festival held at the Ham- mond Civic Center.