George Washington High School - Post Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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United VVe Stand-Members of the history faculty ar: Row 1: Mrs. Corlie Walker, Donald Fasig, and Mrs. Anne Burge, department head. Row 2: Amos Slaton, Pershing Meyers, Carl Zenor, and Richard Hedges. Those not pictured are Russell McConnell and Audie Watkins. In our history and social stud- ies classes We are taught the past, in order to understand current events more fully. Seniors learn how far the government should interfere with business, and by what methods We, the future busi- ness men and Women, can seek to improve its conditions. We learn to grow and think, readying ourselves for life in the great American Way. . . . digging into history-then and now F Ticker Tape Tycoons-Ralph Wilham, Marilyn downs of the market. All students in the Economic Parker, and Emma Yates, students in a problems Problems classes kept charts such as these and bought class, are shown here checking the recent ups and and sold imaginary stocks on an unpredictable market. -13-

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8 -1- 8 I 16 -These math students are busy Working on their daily assignments. . . . solving intricate mathemaiic problems Although every student is required to take one year of general math or algebra, some students take advantage of the ad- vance courses offered by the math department. These students may be majoring in math to prepare for college or to prepare for future 2 x 2 I 4--Jack Reynolds, Bill Bennett, Gary Hesser, and John Arvin, seniors, find using the slide rule in college algebra makes math easier. These boys are majoring in mathematics in order to prepare themselves for college. jobs. Scholarships are often given on the basis of the amount of math takeng therefore, it is important to include math in every program. There are increasing numbers of students interested in geometry, algebra, and trigonom- etry. 9EI9Mc2-The faculty members of the math department are row 1: Miss Lillian Neimann, Mrs. Viola Ramsey, Miss Vivian Ely, head, Mrs. Grace Barker, and Mrs. Marie Shaiferg row 2: Bill Spring- er, O. W. Nicely, Rowland Jones, and Robert Badgley. -.17-.

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When in Rome-Joelynn Adams, Ray Fuller, and Time Flies-This calendar in the Spanish room Wayne Slater study a Latin story intently as they try has the days and months printed in Spanish. to translate it into good English sentences. They are in Changing the date are Sherain Poindexter and an advance Virgil Class. Darleeh Weif- . . . striving to master foreign tongues Conjugating Experts-Language teachers are Mrs. Mildred Corie, Mrs. Hester Bock, and Mrs. Fimie Richie. -19- Washington s t u d e n t s realize how important for- eign languages are. There- fore they not only attend classes in other tongues but join together to forrn our Spanish and L a t i n c l u b s . Learning another language is helpful in knowing that tongue and also in knowing our own E n gl i s h language, since many of our words are de- derivatives of foreign tongues.