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

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Sidney Ridgeway learns that physics principles affect even the ringing of a doorbell. Science taught In LPHS it is required that every student take one year of science. One usually fulfills this requirement by taking biology in his fresh- man year. He then learns how to dissect frogs and worms and also how to use the microscope. In the junior and senior year, students may take chemistry. Students learn to perform experi- ments that have been made famous by some of the well-known scientists. These experiments may- be performed by oneself or with a lab partner. The chemistry classes have micro-size equipment which is a great advantage to the students in their work. College chemistry is also available to the students who wish to do advanced work. Another course which the upj cr-class students Connie Elshire cautions George Riggs, “There might be an old hornet left in this nest.”

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Sociat tccclie (LocilcU cx£i$ea ifr According to this, Columbus was right, exclaims Janice Bozek. deals with man, his problems and relations with people. In economics one can learn about the study of production, distribution, and consump- tion of goods. One of the newer courses in LPHS, international relations, is usually taken only by the more advanced students. It concerns chiefly the political change in China, Southeast Asia’s present status, and the Russian Revolution. “Here,” Pat Dunifon points out to her international relations class, “is one of many troublesome areas in the world.” Mr. Wayne Tarnow seems to be telling some of the facts of economics to Herb Hagenow.

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by investigation may take is physics. In this course one studies the fundamentals of heat, sound, light, elec- tricity, and matter. Electronics then may be taken if the student has completed satisfactorily the previous physics course. Each year the science department sponsors the Science Fair. The fair is usually held in the Civic Auditorium in the spring. The local winners are asked to show their displays at the Valparaiso University Science Fair. Membership in the Bi-Phi-Chcm science club is offered to those students who find science very interesting. The club meets once a month when the guest speaker talks to the group on a subject pertaining to their study of science. Tim McCarty and Joan Gipson investigate a dissected worm. Tim Crowley and Virginia Block prove their knowl- edge of chemistry during an experiment. The voltage of dry cells is checked in physics class as shown by Marsha Munson. 25