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

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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

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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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lr. Gordon gives help to students during their study period in mathematics class. New Horizons loom Mathematics is not confined to to- morrow's teachers, scientists, and engin- eers but it is needed for all in an ever- increasing degree. Highland Park High School provides a two-fold program: one of which will be pursued by those for whom high school is the finishing point in formal education: the other which will be traveled by those on the way tocollege and careers that require higher mathematics. Don Tioubly works out a consumers nath problem for the class. is ' of is -M -13-