George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Seniors in advanced composition discuss desirable contents and make-up of a theme. Margene Witzke, George Chevonec, John Sech, Betty Jo Merriman and Fred Nelson gather around Claire Benne and decide what grade this theme deserves in context and mechanics. Studying not only Latin grammar but also Roman culture is the aim of Mrs. Wilcox’s Latin classes. Sandy Fauth gives a class report on the Roman Senate. Have you ever tried to pledge allegiance to the American flag in German? Jon Fech and Kent Hannon find this a pa¬ triotic way to learn the German language. 11

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Four Cultural Horizons Are Broadened Dorothy Troksa and Bob Vater resolve to never again dangle a modifier in Miss McCampbell’s junior English class. During two years of study, Latin students form reading acquaintances with every great Roman from the wolf that raised Romulus to the Emperor Caligula. Mrs. Lillian Wilcox steeps her pupils in Latin culture, apparently to the exclusion of the Amercian variety, since Latin Club holds a yearly slave auction for fund-raising. On the Ides of March, loyal fans crown the bust of Caesar with laurel and wear black arm bands in his memory. Mr. Gehrig, German and Spanish instructor, utilizes such study aids as language records, foreign newspapers, and songs in many languages. The cus¬ toms of the two nationalities are studied in German and Spanish Clubs. And last but not the least of all of these, Our native tongue requires of devotees Book reports, themes, short stories, poetry, Communication of ideas with ease. Spanish students have one advantage over their Latin fellows: live recordings of the language. Here, junior Nancy Small and sophomore Bob Priesol listen enraptured to a recorded lesson in grammer and pronunciation. 10

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Logical Thinking Is Emphasized Mathematics, the basis of atomic science, holds in its murky recesses vast opportunities for anyone who dares to venture thither. Four courses in ad¬ vanced mathematics are offered at Clark. Algebra and advanced algebra, offered to fresh¬ men and juniors respectively, involve the study of technical mathematics. Plane geometry, a sophomore subject, introduces geometric laws and the princi¬ ples of logical thinking. Solid geometry and trig¬ onometry develop mathematics in space. The “new look” in the mathematics department takes the form of an accelerated course in space geometry, offered for the first time this year to seventeen select seniors. The course consolidates trig and solid in order to develop a background in college mathematics. A course in commercial mathe¬ matics is available for business-bound students. Bonnie Benko and Bob Ference are at the blackboard in geometry to discuss the finer points of a triangle. It seems that Bob is insisting on the addition of another side. The trigonometry commandment, “Thou shalt not divide by zero!” helps ' seniors Illse Economou and Bill Ignatuk to graph the trigometric functions of theta. After learning to add, to multiply, and to rationalize de¬ nominators of radicals, juniors in advanced algebra dis¬ cover a new roadblock: the imaginary number.