John Adams High School - Album Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Classes at Work In answer to Russia's challenge, we buck- led down to work and found ourselves thoroughly engrossed on the perplexing problems which confronted us in our math and science classes. Those of us who are preparing to take our places in the business and industrial worlds diligently strove to increase our knowledge on our commercial courses. To satisfy our aesthetic senses we com- pleted our school programs with the study of music, art, and dramatics. mi? WR l 91 Voici la France, exclaims Mr. Brady as one of French scholars look on.

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:gf iii S4-- xvv Ray Wilson puts the finishing touches on the polar bear which many biology students and Mr. Litweiler helped prepare. we With an illustration, geometry is more easily under stood. Mary Jane Zellers exemplifies the advanced biology department by observing the lion cub from Poto- watomi Park Zoo. 12 Our Varied Adamsites were stimulated this year by our challenging curriculum. Our quest in our English courses was for the TRUTH, and we learned to examine our own ideas and principles critically under the expert gui- dance of our instructors. Hungering and thirsting for knowledge, inquisitive minds penetrated into the realms of foreign language. Latin, French, and Spanish were sometimes Greek to us - but we managed to gain better understand- ings of the people whose native tongue we were studying. Learning by doing, these Government stu- dents stage a mock political convention.

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The excellent machinery in the machine shop is demonstrated by jim Lieberenz. .. ' ,. u Materials of the drafting department are illustrated by Bill Nagy. was fi, Making sure she has enough material before cut- ting this Home Economist lays out the pattern. Q 54? lb ' ' QW ,W,,.,f .,.s-I ,t,.1 ...v Q. ,,N,,' ..,.f-,,. ' .Y-f' f'e- R , 4, WM... ,..- .M - V N ,,,....-...av-5...-...J-M., ..f-'fe-f Learning the Dramatic Arts, these students read parts of a play. 14 Taking a timed writing in typing these girls hope for speedQplus accuracy. sv' In art classes, students are able to express them- selves.