Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Are they really concentrating, or are they just posing for the photographer? American and International Relations, a course offered to those seniors planning to go on to college, is designed to ac- quaint the student with the role the United States has played and continues to occupy in relationship with other nations of the world. Social Science ls the Study Government is an important factor in everyone's life. At H. P. H. S. students have an opportunity to study many phases of government and governmental agancies. The first semester the Constitution students investigated the formation and workings of the different branches of the national, state, and local governmental machinery. The second semester was devoted to the study of Modern Civilization. In American history the students learned how the immigrants from the old world set up new wolitical, economic, and religious systems upon coming to America. Bert Perry. Beth Boudybush, and Billie Jane A'9f1C00 01lt0f! ltldelil F000 I 1918 Nightingale demonstrate proper courtroon 09099090 0000006101 the 000 of '0l'ld tation clan. 'll' 1- proeodnrea in their c0llti

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ua-' l i Carol Richardson of the Cadet teaching class is shown above with her hole economics class at Highland Park Grade School. To explore the possibilities in the teaching field and create an awareness of the opportunities it offers, HPHS has offered a course in Cadet Teaching. High school seniors who felt that they wanted to enter the teaching profession were given an opportunity to investigate this work. Some time was given in study to the philosophy of education as well as methods of teaching. Actual training was gained when the students went into the classrooms in the elementary schools within the high school district and took charge of the class under the supervision of the regular classroom teacher. All freshmen at Highland Park High School are required to take civics and family life. The course began with a study of the students' immediate environment and developed from the study of the family on to the community. to the state, and to the nation. Family living is a course that deals in social problems as the result of both sociological and psychological causes. Emphasis was laid on the individual in the family, with study in family-member relationships, dating, marriage, and family and home management. However, problems of community welfare, such as public health, housing, and others of city-wide concern, were not neglected. Y with Mr. Jones teacherof the 7th grade science class at Highland Park Grade School. Mary Alice Hules, cadet teacher, is shown year r s c classes gave a variety of special re- ports. An art class project for Ir. Banks' faaily living class, the mural illustrated are areas studied in that subject.

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FTS' 'E X gi fffW , ahf-' Dual Coulwl 01 1 no1uCP'FDUlIATlUN Students of one of the drivers education classes prepare to take the school'a dnal controlled car for a practice run. W Just to prove that the drivers ednca- tlon car has no crunpled fenders,--at least not on this side. of Family life and Our Country's Heritage Drivers education is a course in which the students learned the proper methods of driving from both actual driving ex- perience and classroom study. This course is approved by the state, and local and state officials encourage students to take drivers education. Psychology is a study of mental be- havior. The pupils studied the traits, feelings, and actions of the individual, collectively, as determined by the per- son's mental characteristics. Not to the death nor even till a teacher cones, but just a study of enotlons are re- actions to then by lray Britton, Art Cope- land, and Sharon Glbler, of lr. Herrnan's psychology class. J