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

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haw., ' 74,12 ' M. f H! . f f-.. M.. . BILL BEARD, a junior, gets a helping hand from Mr. R o be rt Badgley, Mathematics Department head, in solving a puzzling algebra problem. Changes continue in athematics Department 9 ii is ,,- ' ' ,W,,,,,.,,,,um ' DAILY HOMEWORK is collected from Sharon Sides, Mike Collins, and Sherry Carroll by basic math teacher Mrs. Marie Shaffer. 22 Continentals meet the challenge of the changing world by further- ing their studies in mathematics. Although there were no changes in the math curriculum this year, there was a change in name. Prac- tical math, which is the basic fun- damentals of arithmetic, has been given the name basic math. After taking this course, the pupil is bet- ter prepared for algebra. This name is now used by every school offering the course in the city. On Oct. 28, a Washington pupil was honored by attending High School Math Day at Franklin Col- lege. In order to attend the math day, a great interest in math was shown by the pupil. Vicki Longest, a senior, and Washington's repre- sentative at Franklin, had been en- rolled in math since she was a fresh- man. Her good grades and interest in mathematics proved to be worth four years of study in figures. THE OVERHEAD projector, a new aid for teachers and pu- pils, is used frequently by Mr. Don Counts in business math classes. if

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f W... X 4,7 If 7 r Q' . . 2 f 1. ROBERT Everhart, Louis Day, and Jackie Briant learn more about their state by giving reports in Indiana history class. SOCIOLOGY students learn about man and some of his prob- lems from a report given by Lindsay Shaw. International relations, sociology, psychology added to Curriculum xg HQ' AUJSLA , WHL fw 'Y Q ay I , ff W ,,. 1 . ZW' I' ig0U5f 5 'L may I KAREN Leach learns how a bill becomes law by tracing it through the House and Senate on a map in goyerinnent class. The complexity of the twentieth century world has spurred the need for a better understanding of man and his history. Three new courses were added to the social studies curriculum this year in an effort to increase man's understanding' of himself and his cultures. These courses-sociology. psychology, and international relations-delyed into many of the wo1'ld's problems. The sociology course was a study of man's cul- ture, history, and the reasons for group behavior in a society. In this class pupils had the opportunity to study the general behavior of the human race and learn some of the reasons people turn to drugs and crime. This class also helped the interested pupil to better understand how is city is operated. The major purpose of the international relat- ions Course was to deal with current eyents in depth. Some of the topics covered in the course included Americas role in foreign matters. the role of foreign nations in world policies. and current developments in the Near East. The third course added to the social studies curriculum this year was psychology. This class. taught by Mr. Ora Hight. studied the behavior of society and attempted to relate psychology to other social sciences. 21

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,psf , q 'Qf MQIWW www' W '4 Mt 59993 998 JIM ELLIOT and Mike Stout take time out to give the snakes some attention in biology class. fat 3 .1 DICK KAYS and Shirley Boyce take their turns in exploring the microscopic world, a common practice in biology classes. New equipment bolsters Jet airplanes, rockets, modern ar- chitecture, s p e e d y automobiles- where did it all begin? The answer, of course, is science. Physicists, biologists, chemists, en- gineers, technicians, and many other hundreds of scientists have brought the world to its present technological height. The place of science in the school curriculum has grown to be more and more important. In keeping up with the growing importance of science, the Washington Science Department added new lab tables to the biology rooms and equipped them with new and better microscopes this year. The new microscopes were purchased to encourage individual work and think- ing, the qualities that have enabled science to make the world what it is today. Projects were commonplace in sci- ence classes this year. Physics class- es, for example, worked on a lap counter for the Continental 500. Or- dinarily, laps have been counted by certain assigned students. An in- crease in the number of entries created a need for a more accurate counting system. scientific achievement RITA ARTERBURN and David Cuppy prepare to begin an experiment their physics class. This experiment measures the velocity of 11 fall . R. .faf N. -4 ' X. . X. :f n g at -b ei : in ing ball. 23