La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Backing up cautiously, Boh Smith checks the surrounding area. Richard Williams scales the rope in gym class. JfW phifMcai irum i' Kenny Bender points out the familiar bones of the body to Joyce Gugliclmetti. 12 Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, alias Tom Grosser and Roger Chesney, search for a solution in The Case of the Missing Lung.

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John Chalik ay Good Morning” in French to Judy Grandorf. Mr . Stevenson’s Spanish class enjoys rciding papers, magazines, and books in Spanish. through language about the Spanish festivals and holidays, and the con- versational aspect of the language is stressed in all classes. All the foreign language groups put a display in the showcase sometime during the year. At Christ- mastime the French and Spanish classes sing Christ- mas carols in their respective languages through the halls of LPHS. Students, representing each foreign language, are sent every year to state contests. Conversational French, a one semester course, is taught in LPHS by Miss Dick. This year conversa- tional Spanish, another one semester course, was also available to the students. Mrs. Stevenson taught con- versational Spanish. Through the study of foreign languages we arc constantly becoming more aware of other peoples and their particular ways of life. A Jo Fran Griffis points to Terry Decker’ sweater, he points to the French translation of the word. Both are students in Miss Dick’s conversational French class. 11

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their advanced art project». Linda Nation, Margaret Stover, Lynn Jensen, and Nancy Moore take class notes in beginning art. to Creative Arts Mrs. Thomas gives soitae helpful advice on making posters to Bob Hocnig, Mike Hess, and Jan Kolar in commercial art. Around LPHS each student has the opportunity to obtain a certificate in driver's training. He may ob- tain this certificate by class study and by actual driv- ing practice in the training car. Every student is required to take health. It is usually taken in the sophomore year. A new course, physi- ology, was also taught this year. This course is an advanced study of the body. Two years of gymnasium work is also required in the health and physical education department. This is usually taken during the freshman and sophomore years. Seniors planning on going into the field of physical education may assist the regular gym teachers with their physical educa- tion classes. Mrs. Thomas offers many courses in which the artis- tic person may put his talents to use. In beginning art one learns an appreciation and the different drawing techniques used. Commercial art consists of the mak- ing of posters and signs; and in advanced art one learns sculpturing, ceramics, and the correct use of oils. OLA missions 13