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

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Mr. Gino Burelli, art instructor, offers helpful advice to John Harminac con¬ cerning his portrait of Donna Hammond.

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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.

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Stimulate Salent Sind Appreciation . . . Mary Jay Bindas Gino Burelli Mary Frances Busby Mattie G. Hannsz Jeanette C. Hady Alfred Fissinger Lorain Shaffer Angeline Prado Eleanor LaValle Practice makes perfect may well be the motto of any aspiring musician. Advanced band students, Pauline Jones, Dick Epps, Carol Wagner, Judy Szymanski, and Gene Mastin prove this statement as they rehearse for a forthcoming concert. A South of the Border atmosphere often prevails in Miss Angeline Prado s Spanish class. Students Jerry Tarpo, John Paris, and Christine Pirovsky help display Spanish garb The opportunity to explore our talents and to develop an appreciation of the fine arts is provided by creative courses in art, music, drama, speech, photography, and languages. Students with artistic endowments learn to paint an ex¬ pressive picture. Drama students admire and study profes¬ sionals as they attended plays in Chicago. The grade school operetta, PRINCE OF PILSON, gave those with exceptional dramatic and musical ability an opportunity to be recognized. Speech courses help us to think more clearly and talk more fluently. Speech contests, which give the winner an opportun¬ ity to speak before service clubs, create friendly competition. The study of foreign languages enables us to know and understand the culture of others. Students may choose Latin, French or Spanish from grades seven through eleven if they wish to become proficient in languages. Students may elect other fine arts courses which broaden their cultural interests.