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

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Creative confusion describes ort dept. Creative confusion describes 209, the art room. Students work alone or in groups drawing, molding, or painting. Some experiment with the potter's wheels while others sketch a still life. A few, glad to fill requests, art students tint photographs, print pos- ters and arrange Bowers for the cafeteria. Strange designs, water colors, mobiles and paper moscue masks decorate the art room. Walking is difficult because the paint splattered floor is covered with unfinished paintings. Cupboards and drawers in the back room hold the tools of the hopeful ar- tists. Also in the back room is the much used sink. In warm weather, they gather together paper and pencil and troop outdoors. Applied design students work with metal and clay. The history and principles of art are studied in Exploratory Art Course. Ad- vanced students work on projects of their own choice. Mother and child in blue oils takes shape with the brush strokes of Nancy Brinley. Mr. Benson, art teacher, watches. 'I2 Art clubbers look over their work which includes a self- portrait masks, and papermache objects. A high ladder helps these three hang a mobile advertising A Thread That Runs So True.

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ml ll? 1 i r -L.. Freshies learn through charts to be good citizens in civics classes. Proiects, trips spark Social Studies Dept. Studying history helps future voters avoid the mistakes of yesterday, understand the problems of today, and predict the situations of tomorrow. Freshies received their first taste of social studies in civics classes. Here they were introduced to John Adams, to local, state and national govern- ment and to propaganda devices. U. S. history projects kept students away from the TV set. As editors of an 1865 newspaper, they reported the death of President Lincoln. World history students' filled notebooks with names, facts, and theories gathered from Mr. Schutz's lectures. Government students tried bandits in mock trials. 12A's chose between reading newspapers in sociology or writ- ing critical analysies in econornics. Chicago's qw . - - Chinatown and Maxwell Street were visited by Campaign demonstrations are both noisy and colorful. . these seniors. .4 .1 -,....f :President Eisenhower watches a history student who iS This four-man committee proofreads their newspaper ,earching for the Alamo. which reports the death of Lincoln. ' I'l

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lotorious chatterboxes study standing up. They know what J do when Mr. Crowe shouts, On the Wall. A Mir , 4 , Q11 , ' elected junior glee clubbers tune in the Little Theatre :fore performing. 40 J U ..., Q. f S . Y' A if Q '--n . we-Q iathering source material for a book report, Barbara Poulin ,ses the libraries' extended facilities. Special classes complete curriculum. Some classes do not fit in a definite category, but these classes develop students into well rounded people. Phys. ed., a required course, pulls all the ex- cess energy out of students. Dance music drifted from the gym during March. Combining their classes, Murph and Miss Bauer initiated Arthur Murray dance instructors. All 9B's hike up to room 21 and chorus class. They, along with other students, hear and sing good music. Mr. Brady's room 22 is also in the upper re- gions. Five minute demonstration speeches are com- mon and often humorous assignments in speech class. Dnamatics students pantomine records, give skits, and deliver monologues. Shaky students slide behind the wheel for the first time and turn the key of the Driver's Training car. Classroom work combined with actual driving experience teach these students to drive properly. In phys. ed., Sandy Vollmer is ready to volley the ball across the net to score a point for her team. I3