Limestone Community High School - Amulet Yearbook (Bartonville, IL)

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LCHS STUDENTS DEVELOP NUMEROUS SKILLS Metal shop is a favorite subject of the boys. The- freshman course consists of learning the names and the uses of various hand tools and simply knowing their way around the shop. The importance of safety is stressed throughout the course. As a project the boys, using hand tools, make household equipment such as cookie cutters, dust pans and match boxes. In the advanced courses, the students learn to use the power equipment in the shop. The boys in the picture are using the shaper with the assistance of Mr. Eugene Gire. They also learn to use the milling machine and the lathes. Welding is also taught in advance courses. These boys make equipment for their future workshops such as hammers, chisels, clamps, and vices. Basketball is one of the many sports offered in Limestone's P.E. department. As shown in the pic- ture, Mrs. Smith, acting as referee, begins the game with a jump ball. Other sports include archery, bad- minton, baseball, ping-pong, shuf- fleboard, and volleyball. Social dancing and square dancing, which the students look forward to each year, is also offered. Physical education keeps the stu- dents in good physical shape, teaches them good sportsmanship, and helps them to understand the importance of teamwork. It in- creases their skill in playing and brings them in contact with a va- riety of sports. The girls are tested on their knowledge of the rules throughout the year. 23

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THE SCIENCES CHALLENGE STUDENTS Today's great emphasis on science is demonstrated at Lime- stone by the large number of stu- dents taking Our various science courses. A course in chemistry is very popular with the students. The first few weeks are spent in learning the valences and symbols of the. most important elements out of the 104 known ones. After accomplishing this challenge the students study the reactions taking place between various substances through experimentation in the lab and through writing and bal- ancing formulas. Later in the year the students begin learning the basic fundamentals concerning atomic energy. They learn home safety factors and the use of the Geiger counters as Kathe Hedum and Steve Stevens are doing with the aid of Mr. Wyzlic. All Sophomores are required to take Biology. This interesting course consists of studying living things. The students begin their study with plants, then they study the simplest one-celled animals and work up to the most complex animal, man. They are required to make leaf and bug collections to augment their studies. The Biology classes are well known for their dissection of frogs and that smelly formaldehyde. The organs of the frog are similar to man's and the dissection helps the students to understand how they themselves tick. Laboratory equipment plays a big part in helping the students understand the fundamentals of Biology. Here, Mr. Richard Ingram is explaining the respiratory sys- tem to Linda Farrow and John Ector, by using their new skeleton. 22

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STUDENTS EXPLORE PAST AND PRESENT Today, more Colleges are requir- ing at least two years of a foreign language. As a result, these courses are vitally important. Lime- stone offers two years of both Spanish and Latin. In Spanish I the students are introduced to the language through the use of con- versation between teacher and stu- dent.'. Phrases such as Buenos dias, amigo. Como esta usted? become very familiar in the first few weeks. Later as the students build up their vocabulary a very helpful device, the tape recorder, is used. The students speak into the recorder in their best Spanish as Gloria Breighthaupt and Bob Ennis are doing with the assistance of Mr. Jack Clinton. Later, it is played back to them. In this way, they can hear their mistakes in pronunciation and strive to correct them. Two factual courses offered at Limestone are American history and World history. The former is a class required of Juniors; the latter is an elective. At the begin- ning of the school year the stu- dents receive a bit of ancient his- tory. They study various explorers' expeditions and trace them through map-work as Doug John- son and Judy Doty are doing with the aid of Miss Helen Schmidt. The course offers a detailed study of the colonization of America up to present times — World War II, and the forming of the United Na- tions. Throughout the year, the students view many fine movies which impress on their minds the facts they learned in class. They also have other projects such as making book reports and build- ing or creating a project which emphasizes some phase of history. 24