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

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WE LEARN BY EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH Term papers, book reports, 500 word papers, and oral reports plague LCHS students the year 'round. For information on their sub- ject, they turn to the library to find material. Our work is made more pleasant by the peaceful atmosphere of the sunny, spacious library. Our library now consists of 4500 books and each year about 600 new books take their place on our shelves. Mrs. Meeker, our librarian, keeps a four year file on newspapers and maga- zines for our use. As you can see, Mrs. Meeker is always willing to help us find material. At left, Paul Springer and Pat Ricks are taking advantage of this service. The money collected by the library in fines (two cents a day), is used to replace lost and worn books and to buy plastic book jackets. The boys in vocational agriculture learn about farming and farm related occupations from work in the class room, in the laboratory, from their farming programs they have devel- oped at home, and from FFA ac- tivities. The Freshman and Sopho- more boys study and work with soils, crops, livestock, and farm shop. Junior and Senior students go into the subjects in more detail with the emphasis on farm management, agriculture economics, and counsel- ing for farming as an occupation and future education in agriculture. At right, Mr. Malmgren watches as Ray Hauk and Ronald Gunther use a centrifuge to test milk samples, brought in by Ray Hauk, for butter- fat. Adult evening classes round out the Vocational Agriculture program at LCHS. 25

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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

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FOOD FOR HEALTH AND THOUGHT It's two-thirty and Limestone stu- dents are seen throwing their books into their lockers, making a bee- line for the gym to enjoy a paid assembly. During the year the Stu- dent Council sponsors eight of these assemblies to give the students a chance to see something new and educational. All-girl assemblies on the latest fashions and make-up, help the girls in grooming. The boys, too, have assemblies on vocations and driving. To get the student body in the spirit for football and basketball games, pep assemblies are presented by the Pep Club and other organiza- tions. As a member of the Mid-State Eight we participate in an exchange assembly program and Limestone is entertained by a band and a choir from one of these schools. Special assemblies at Christmas and Easter round off our program of assemblies. The following is a true story wit- nessed by many, seemingly con- cealed by few. TIME: 11:49 PLACE: Limestone High SETTING: Any number of typi- cal class rooms. A hundred students are seen anx- iously sitting on the edge of their chairs—staring wordlessly at the clock. Seconds tick by and then comes the magic moment— 11:50. A bell is heard ringing in the distance, feet are set in motion, and soon lunch hour students are cramming into line. A scene such as this takes place three times daily. Five hundred hun- gry students are fed in one day. Our busy cafeteria ladies prepare 150 lbs. of potatoes daily, 90 lbs. of ham- burger, use 37 loaves of bread, 8 lbs. of butter, and 15 gal. of vege- tables. They bake 25 pies, 180 cookies and prepare 40 salads. Each student's lunch is 35 cents. 26