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

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Social Sciences Encourage Good Citizenship The academic “new look” extends into the social sciences. In order to meet the demand of our society for well-informed citizens, economics and world history have been added to the list of required sub¬ jects. World geography, U.S. history, and govern¬ ment round out the list. In their study of economics, seniors learn the principles of production, consumption, and distri¬ bution by comparing different economic systems. U.S. history, offered to juniors, concentrates on the events of the twentieth century. The hope is that a clearer understanding of American heritage will produce better citizen s. Comprehension and appreciation of the past world-wide events that have molded the present are the objectives of world his¬ tory classes. In all courses, subject matter is vitalized through the use of such periodicals as Time, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. The importance of gestures, facial expression, and voice variation is practiced by Gary Kaplan in his speech work. Khrushchev in the United Nations has nothing over enthusiastic Clark debaters. The sole purpose of debaters Illse Economou, Mike Kirn, Bob Weinberg, Donna Enright and Clara Welty is to determine whether or not the UN should be strengthened.

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in Math and Science at Clark Seventh period biology students gather around Miss Wil- harm as she explains the specialized functions of the var¬ ious parts of simple and compound leaves. A chemical equation may be all Greek to the uninitiated, but it’s one of the things with which chemistry students valiantly struggle. Mr. Edwin Martin rules over the department, which boasted a record enrollment of sixty-three students. “An object in motion tends to stay in motion” . . . until the bell rings. This rings a bell in the minds of Mr. Martin’s physics students. These budding scientists probe the innermost secrets of matter, and there’s nothing the matter with that. With charac¬ teristic gravity, Mr. Martin discounts this year’s scarcity of physics students as simply meaning fewer chemistry students to contend with next year. Miss Wilharm and Mr. Powell lead their biology charges through an imposing gamut of topics be¬ ginning with plant and animal phyla and resolving to heredity. You can always recognize a Clark biology student — he’s the one who’s always pick¬ ing leaves. Juniors Bob Weinberg and Susan Parks study the Uniform Accelation chart in hopes of remembering the right for¬ mula on one of Mr. Martin’s famous 10-point quizzes.

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Commercialists Look Toward Business World The commercial program includes courses of prac¬ tical value to all students. Included in the curriculum are typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, business ma¬ chines, commercial math, consumer education, gen¬ eral business and filing. Most popular is typing, since business-bound and college-bound students alike find it a vital skill. Next in appeal are shorthand and bookkeeping. Actually, the entire program is popular, for stu¬ dents from all three courses of study are enrolled in commercial subjects. Practical experience is the focal point. Neophyte secretaries start learning the ropes by typing ma¬ terial for teachers. In shorthand, records are used to practice dictation as spoken language is translated into shorthand symbols. The next job is the trans¬ cription, or translation, of these symbols into typed longhand. In business machines class, students prac¬ tice using the three adding machines, two calcula¬ tors, and the duplicator owned by the school. Con¬ sumer education class expounds on the “hidden persuaders” of advertising and helps students to buy wisely in this hand-over-fist world. This pair of hands is only one of the many that use the typing room each day. Thousands of keys are pressed and hundreds of motions necessary to typing are performed. Future office workers Christine Srncik, Barbara Krzanowski, and Beverly Taylor learn to operate efficiently and accur¬ ately many business machines. Increased speed and accuracy are the goals of Carol Jam- rozik, Diane Wozniak, and Gerry Dubczak as they take dic¬ tation from Miss Coughlan, shorthand instructor. 15