Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Building strong bodies through daily exercise is the awn of the gym department. For the first time the boys were required to wear T-shirts and gym shorts.

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r v c r T- —-r- - .• .■■ ■ vmm : smmi Ms-. v .v tA wvmwmm » SffiT ■il A 4 I v . • .. j i ’ ’ Field hockey, an increasingly popular sport, has been introduced for the first time to the boys in the gym classes. ' XerciSe an Joseph H. Black Marce Gonzalez Lawrence G. Martin Don R. Polizotto fm Mildred A. Kelly Richard F. Polk - 8 i 4 -If r It matters not whether you win or lose, but how you p ! ay the game is the philosophy which plays a major role in our gymnastic pro¬ gram. The principles of good sportsmanship, team¬ work, and competition are developed through participation in sports. The proof of these qualities is reflected in our football, basketball, swimming, track, and golf teams. Two new activities added to the boy ' s gym curriculum this year are calisthenics and weight lifting. Competing in tournaments add more inter¬ est to girls ' gym classes. Volleyball, baseball, basketball, and bowling are the sports offered to Wallace girls. Gym is the course students look forward to and backward on with pleasure. All eyes are glued on the ball during an intramural basketball game. Intramural games give boys the oppor¬ tunity of participating in sports.

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Guidi ctnce in Wan„ PL aSed Students enrolled in audio-visual and photo¬ graphy courses are the backbone of the auxiliary instruction material used in the classrooms. In¬ structional materials are presented to classes in the form of f ms, film-strips, and slides. A new program in which classical movies are shown during study hall hours was begun this year by the Auditorium Department. The success of the project was made possible by the services of the audio-visual students. Learning the secrets of good photography and the procedures for developing pictures are a few of the duties of the photography students. Work¬ ing on the pictorial divisions of the Quill and Blade is a major project of the photography de¬ partment. Since The Bridge on the River Kwai won six Academy awards, the students enrolled in audio¬ visual and photography classes are concerned about their future interests which help them develop future life time hobbies. Sam Luzzi and Al Bumbales make a last minute check in the dark room after developing the most important picture in the 1959 Quill and Blade, that of our school. Students always find many occasions during their high school years for help and guidance. Helping us choose a career or a college to attend are just a few of the many services of our guidance department. College bound students prepare for the future through a high school academic program care¬ fully planned by the guidance staff. The National Merit Scholarship Test, The Scholarship Qualifying Tests, and the College Boards are administered to senior high school students through the efforts of the members of this department. They also ar¬ range College Day which provides college bound students with the opportunity to talk with repre¬ sentatives of the various colleges. The work of the Guidance Department is never finished. When one senior class graduates, a future senior class comes along to take their place. Many students take advantage of the new facilities in our library during their study periods.