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

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SCIENCE AND MATH. RESOLVE THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES

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SOCIAL STUDIES. TEACHES RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP We saw history in the making during the 1960 presidential election. In the course of the campaign our social studies classes provided us with greater understanding of our election processes and added interest to our quest for knowledge of foreign affairs. The social studies program consists of courses in community civics, world geography, world history, American history, civics, economics, and World Problems. In these classes the processes of democracy are defined and explained. Group thinking and dis¬ cussions help students make critical use of mass modes of com¬ munication. Attendance at 1960 election campaign party rallies, visits to federal, state, and local departments of government helped make us realize the responsibilities which freedom gives us. World history taught us much about the dawn of ancient civilization. We progressed rapidly from the Eqyptian pyramids to the Egypt of Nasser, from democracy in Athens to totalatarianism in World War II. American history provided accounts of the creation of our country and its heritage of liberty, order and justice. In civics, economics, and World Problems we discussed every¬ thing from the organization of government and American freedom of enterprise to African independence, Castro ' s Cuba and Khrush¬ chev ' s attempts to bluff us with his blasts. Students of social studies have lived through a challenging history making year. Ethel Bone and Frank Stefanelli follow Ed Kis ' explanation of the Freedom Shrine in the East Study. These replicas of famous historical documents often provide valuable help to history students.

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Science and mathematics, two required courses are the step¬ ping stones, the tools with which man has built modern technology. Application of the many principles found in skeletal study in biology coupled with the ability to compute stresses, strains, and lift forces found in the study of physics has given man the airplane. Through mathematics and chemistry, man has unleashed untold power in atomic fission. Whenever the scent of spoiled eggs fills our halls, we know our chemists are at work. Chemistry has gained such popularity that students are now chosen from a multitude of applicants. The circumference of the Math department is equal to the sum of its parts: General Math, Algebras I, III, IV, and geometry. Equations, theorems, logarithms, dedecahaedrons, and cylinders are all familiar terms to math majors. ' Tons Asinorum, bridge of fools, is the apt title given to a plane geometry theory and may be compared to the feeling of many a struggling student. Nowhere is deep thought, reason, and concentration more necessary than in the study of science and math. We like it and enrollment in these classes was at a peak during the 1960-61 school year. Using pullies, fulcrum and weights Mr. John Hayes explains the mechanical intricacies of a problem in physics to Charles Walton. Mary E. Davis, Dennis Voris and Delores Wineland prove a geometry theorem on the blackboard for the benefit of the plane geometry class. Miss Adele Gwinn is helping Dennis with step three. :flB-tc - CD V DA p : jlAKimeZS i -i V