Liberty Center High School - Memories Yearbook (Liberty Center, IN)

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Mr. John Talarico, in addition to his admin- istrative duties, teaches junior high English. Here he leads the seventh grade in their spelling lesson. This is just one of many such tests that are administered throughout the year to the seventh and eighth graders as a requirement of their course. In addition to spelling drills these young stu- dents study extensively on the eight parts of speech and the parts of a sentence. Book reports, composition work and vocabulary exercises are a few of the other units included in the junior high curriculum. The English curriculum at Liberty Center includes four years of high school grammar and literature. The fourth year is an elec- tive course recommended especially for those going on to college. In addition to the regular grammar, composition, liter- ature classes, juniors and seniors may elect to take a semester of journalism and speech each. The journalism class had practical experience since they are in charge of put- ting out the Southern Wells school paper, The Rebel Review, twice a year and the yearbook Memories , an 80 page volume. English Curriculum Includes Grammar, Lit Mrs. Brenda Payne, who teaches high school English, speech, and journalism, ex- plains to seniors Phyllis Dul- worth and DiAnne Jones, the way to use a reference book. Students are to check author reference books for background material be- fore giving their book re- ports.

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These are the six men who, in effect, direct the activities and make the policies of Liberty Center High School. Mr. John C. Talarico leafs through a college catalog in his office. Mr. Talarico is our principal and is in charge of guidance at L. C. H. S. Mr. Lloyd Biberstine is shown making out one of the numerous reports that he must complete in his duties as Superintendent of the Southern Wells school system. Administration Plans Consolidated School Pictured are the South- ern Wells School Board members: Ward Showalter, Charles Day, Donald Wil- liams, and Howard Baker. The school board has been very active due to the na- ture of school reorganiza- tion.

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Mrs. Mable Metz, head of the mathematics depart- ment, explains to some of the juniors in her advanced algebra class, how to use the library to find books pertaining to math. Mrs. Metz, in addition to her teaching responsi- bility, is in charge of the library facilities at Liberty Center. Mrs. Metz teaches all of the high school mathematics from freshman algebra to sen- ior trigonometry and college algebra. In third period of each day, Mrs. Metz teaches a commercial course - business arithmetic. Even with all of this, Mrs. Metz still finds time to head the girl ' s physical education program. Mathematics Program Covers Six Grades Mr. Lewis Captain explains to Randy Raber and Bruce Stanton how an old crank-type tele- phone was constructed. Mr. Captain teaches at Chester H. S. in the morning and travels to Lib- erty Center to teach junior high math and phys- ics in the afternoon. Mr. Captain is responsible for giving the jun- ior high students a solid foundation in arithmetic before he sends them into high school. His third and final class at Liberty is physics, which jun- iors and seniors may take in alternating years with chemistry. This course is recommended for the academic curriculum.