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

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A bit of realism is introduced into Mr. Herman Shelby ' s history class, when George Phillips points to the hole blown in the helmet of on unfortunate soldier of World War II. (Well G. Anderson Sam Bianco Stuart D. Bohn Shirley W. Bryan Martha Clemen. Dorothy Clingerman Marie Edward. Dorothy Kouvela. W. H. McAllister Elmer J. Molchon George Orlich Herman E. Shelby Virginia Stoner Ann Underwood

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James E. Anderson Sam Cullop Richard E. Doenges Adele Gwinn Everett Hartsough John L. Hayes James M. Hill Lola Lemon Helen S. Mackenzie Helen Rzepka William Vorwald Olive E. Waggoner Ethel Walter Byron Welton O. M. Whitmon s. cience Do Ddi lier Standards • • • The fire extinguisher is a wonderful device. Barbara Yurtanas puts out the fire built in the sink as Sue Hart looks on in anguish. 23

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Rita Reinke, Theresa Harrison, and Rich Osika are busily working on a topography map of a European country as an outside project for world history. To know nothing of the past, said an ancient philosopher, is to understand little of the present and to have no conception of the future. The importance of social studies in our daily lives is not minimized during Mr. Alois Wozniak, sixth district councilman, answers questions which arose in the minds of civics students, Sylvia Schulties, Nick Radulo- vich, and John Patz as they observed a City Council meeting. our school years. Required social studies courses begin with world history. As sophomores we study the world s social, economic, and political conditions from the Stone Age to the Jet Age. We are free to read widely about our nation ' s progress in U.S. history. As the story unfolds, we cover the events from Jamestown, Virginia, to Honolulu, Hawaii. In our senior year we encounter our first intro¬ duction to political science. The second semester, we may either enroll in world problems or in economics classes. Discussions often centered around Eisenhower ' s unique visit to many foreign countries, the coming presidential nominations, and the current Gary Water Works proposals. In social studies classes we learn to examine ideas and facts with good citizenship as our ultimate goal.