Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Math department chops accelerated program Lacking one teacher, the math depart¬ ment shortened the accelerated program. Students from Math lx transferred to Al¬ gebra 1 or Algebra II; Math IIx students went into geometry classes; Math IIIx, Math IV and Math IVx were combined into a class of eighteen. (Left) Unit circles are essential to Miss The senior math class takes a break as Halpin in explaining trig functions to her the teacher leaves the room. class. Discussion, readings used in psychology Stressing learning by discussion and current readings, junior and senior stu¬ dents took a semester of psychology with Mr. David Werner. Class members experi¬ mented in extrasensory perception, trial and error responses, and selective for¬ getting. In lighter vein hypnosis and working of the Ouija board were observed. (Left) Mr. Werner weighs a student’s Paula Wilson and Alice Lopez take in question about extrasensory perception. everything being said about trial and error.

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Physics department acquires new textbooks New this year in the Science depart¬ ment was the set of books used by phy¬ sics classes. Published by Harvard Uni¬ versity, the collection consisted of six readers containing essays and fiction on scientific topics, a text and a laboratory manual. Students reacted to them favorably. Left: Instead of one text, a shelf of Using marbles, John Serwatka, Carl books provides Physics reading. Moore and Alan Reuter study molecular density. Laws of gravity studied by science classes Beginning with demonstrations of laws of gravitation, students elected phases of science to study. Working individually, Dave Fogler and Bob Orlich operated analog and digital computers. Rubin Maldonado and Larry Rosen diagrammed crystals. Gwen Mc¬ Daniel fabricated molecular models of organic compounds. Left: Bob Rodriguez visits Gilbert Wash¬ ington’s biology class on senior teachers’ day. Seminar-fashion, Mr. George Sanidas in¬ structs advanced science students.

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Students choose from tour foreign languages Maria Sepulveda tacks up some Spanish travel posters, one of many activities her Spanish II class has done through the school year. Miss Jones listens on as members of her French class read from their books. Part of Mrs. DeLeurere’s class gathers around her to read one of their lessons. Dividing the students into different sections allows advanced students to progress faster. Miss Bopp, German teacher, checks some homework papers she has assigned her students that day. Modern foreign language classes, French, German and Spanish, with fewer students enrolled, operated on an individ¬ ualized instruction basis. First-year students exchanged dia¬ logues. During second year grammar was introduced; third- and fourth-year stu¬ dents read and translated books. Miss Georgia Bopp taught German and French; Mrs. Margaret DeLeurere taught Latin; Miss Sally Jones taught French; and Mrs. Connie Barnes, Mrs. Sara Nelson and Mrs. Melva Zabarte taught Spanish.