Lanphier High School - Lan Hi Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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1 SCIENCE The modern trend in high school science throughout the country today is away from the highly technlcal and toward the more pract1cal The six hundred seventy students now enrolled in general science biology chemlstry and physics at Lanphier High Qchool are receiving instructions in accord ance with this trend While these subiects are made sufficiently fundamental to meet state un1vers1ty and North Central requi e the opportunity to secure information that will lead them to enioy richer fuller and more satisfying roles in a complex and changing society A rather extensive program of Visual Education and ample laboratory facilities offer science students two excellent methods for learning seeing and doing A fee of ten cents each year is charged to science students This money is used to pur chase and rent films Thls year several out standing films have been purchased and form the nucleus of a filrn llbrary that will be added to each year Many films from the State De partment of Public Health have b en shown to general sc1ence and biology classes Films for the chemistry and physics classes were ecured from the United States Bureau of Mines through its extension library at the Uni cooperation with manufacturers of nationally known products and afford excellent informa tion regarding modern chemical and physical processes in industry Biology students have taken many fiela trips when studying trees and their leaves In thzs Way the students become more interested in the study of science lumus C Wetzel Hugo Lindquis Frank lfloore Paul Stone l' u rm 4 . ' I 1, fm.. 5 A . A kv 1 M y ments, they are offering the students enrored versity of Illinois. These films are made in

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ln a school the srze ol ours someone IS need d who can gtve the student body more than cftrctal rntormatron a sympathetrc person who understands the1r pomt ot vtew and can advrse them rntellrgently That of'1ce IS Well hlled by Mr Goby our busy counselor lns knowledge of both academlc and so 1al relattonshrps makes htm rnvaluable to our taff The growth and d velopment of our school has 1ncreased so raptdly that there las been a great need for someone who could gtve personal attentron and warm sympathy to personal and soctal maladrustments The answer to that problem was seen very qutckly when Mr Goby took over that offlce HIS charge of r gtstrdtron of over lOUU puplls For almost a month he lS kept busy gorng over program cards checkrng class scned t les and meanwhrle keeplng up other rou trne dut1es whlch are perpetually ar1s1ng when he 1S busrest Amrd all these dut1es he strll frnds trme to conduct h1s classes tn the x oodwork department The rrnportance of the counselor ts oft tlmes unclerestrmated In realrty thrs ottxce IS the center upon whrch all the soclal ltte dnd routrne work of the school revolve The coun selor plays a very rmportant part of all phases of school hte and we feel that our dean Mr Goby has accompltsned a great deal toward makrng our school more harmon rous rn that he has not only adrusted the re rn the school but of our school wlthln the communrty BOYS COUNSELOR .m.... i A J 4 I I H ..-. A l 4 I 4 V , A I 4 A . 1' V I I I 4 I 3 ' ' 9 1 . . , . ' 4 1 I . I. duties begin before school starts as he has lationship of students and organizations with- D , . . . . . I . .. - Q, , ' I I 'MN 1.1131 ,e,.st.,.g......,.m.. M ,X 'W' In Vt il A T T . 4 E Tixnri-wr

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SOCIAL SCIENCE The adult can never be a worthy c1t1zen ot h1s country unttl he knows enough about 1ts hlstory trad1t1ons ldeals and heroes to apprecrate 1ts development and 1ts contrrbu trons to c1v1l1zat1on 1n general He can never be an lnterested and loyal cxtlzen unttl he s able to thrrll to the stones of the hardshrps tallures and successes ot hrs predecessors and those of the present age that have dl rectly benetrtted h1m Umted States hxstory IS worthy ot study as a notable and successful expenment tn self government lt IS lmportant that the c1t1 zen upon whose op1n1on IH the last analysls the cont1nuance of the government must de pend should know as much as possxble of 1ts 1nst1tut1ons and of the tundarnentals of 1ts problems ln Amerlcan Government the student hulda Albrecht Cleo Depp k ff learns that government IS not operated ac cordrng to preconcetved theorles but IS a l1v1ng organ1sm developed by the people to meet the needs resultmg from changrng cond1t1ons The actual operatlon of the na tlonal state and local governments IS dls cussed and the polrtrcal and soclal problems ot today stressed An organlzed plan by wh1ch the student through hrs own experlences and reasonmg s iade fam1l1ar wrth the 1nst1tut1ons prac t1ces and pr1nc1ples of our economrc hte IS brought out 1n Economlcs The study of World l-hstory turnrshes the tntormatton about the experrence of the human race whrch may lrght the way 1nto the future lt traces the rmportant develop ments ln human progress and stresses the ways 1n whlch the past has contrrbuted to our present l1V1Hq loe E Ho rv In Rolla Sorrells f, ,A , t - V Q V I , f , , L ' , , ' - . , . , . - I ' 1 l 'r ' ' ' ' ' ' - - - V , f . . . A . v :Q f ,. . 'C . f if My A QMAZZ, .L at? li' K . T 6. ns i .5 -fb rf., . .,3r4.-,.,,,,' h , ' 4 , ,wil r :9-- f iz. rv A , ,, , .3 fv'A'f'Nf3i