Golden Valley High School - Viking Yearbook (Golden Valley, MN)

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learning FOUR HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE! Bob Hanson and DeAnn McAlister work on a motion experiment, at Keith Smith, kneeling, and Mitch Rand look on critically. CONFERRING WITH VALLEY VIEWER EDITOR, Lowell Gomtrud. right, on the six-page spring issue are page editors, Jan Latsha, right, and Bo h Schwartx, left, and Jerry Botchee reporter. 7

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expressions of Enrollment numbered 375 individuals, each intent on reaching some goal, each with an opportunity to express himself, whether in the chemistry lab, on the basketball court, or behind the rostrum. Every student had an opportunity to make use of the 4300 volumes in the school library, to belong to many of the extracurricular organizations, or to benefit from the services of a full-time guidance counsellor, offered for the first time this year. 1959 saw establishment of the first journalism, French I, Spanish III, and German III courses. All classes were small, enabling teachers to devote time to the needs of the individual. Techniques made use of lectures, visual aids, magazines, records, maps, and opaque projectors. Tape recordings of native speakers were used in language courses, and practice on machines of future voca- tions was offered in business classes, home economics, and industrial arts. Students saw the why? by diagraming a sentence, decomposing ammonium carbonate, or dissecting a frog. The average senior managed to take part in three extracurricular activities; many students were active in six or more. These activities took place during a short period before 9 a.m. at the beginning of each day. but few students managed to escape through the solid blue doors at 3:22 in the afternoon, as work on such class and club projects often continued into the night. The school work day consisted of six class hours. In the middle of the schedule one half hour was set aside permitting some 340 student gourmets to savor 75 pounds of ground beef. 30 pounds of bread, 15 pounds of carrots, . . . on a typical day. TOM DAHL, YOU’RE ALL WET! Leonard Langley emphatically remarks during a discussion in the 6th hour Modern Problems class. These discussions never fail to produce mixed emotions from this class of seniors. The two sections are taught by Mrs. Anita Stall and Frank Farrell. 6

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STRAINING EVERY MUSCLE, baiketoor Marvin Sochar ovades Sbakopae players and tries his luck on a lay up. Small Valley High was a boon for the sports enthusiast. No cliques made students strangers to each other. Players, too. were more than just passing acquaintances. Whatever the outcome of the game, students usually departed in an amiable mood, perhaps attributed to a plurality of pals. The male population participated in competition ranging from debate to track, from football to speed typing. A program was initiated to give youngsters as low as the fourth grade a supervised program of athletic competition. With GAA, music, speech activities, and cheerleading, the feminine population often spent one or two hours on a special project before treading the asphalt homeward. A true competitor must have the desire, a willingness to work hard and to do a job at the height of his ability. In basketball, for instance, the team practiced ten hours a week just to spend an hour and a half on Friday evening looking sharp, capable, and elated—or perhaps disorganized, incapable, and dishearted. But competition wasn't always against a fellow man. In writing articles for the paper or a research theme for English, students competed with themselves to do the best possible job. Competition was expressed at school in many ways. Miss Mary Netzinger coached an eight-man debate squad. Although the first string debaters were mostly blatant upperclassmen, the team also included four freshmen who were learning the rules of ranting and raving from the ground up. To the conference music contests Valley sent 90 choir members, 44 band members, and 25 soloists and ensembles. They competed in the regionals among groups from nine schools, the entrants totaling a whopping 1,325. In summary, however, the most competitive, the most challenging battle of them all, was the struggle to convince the teaching staff of the student's superiority in all details of all phases of everything. 8