Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Experience gained Have rhe Driver Education instructors ever been in on occident with o student driver? Sure, answered Mr, Max Lien, all three of us hove. When trying to recoil injuries resulting from these Occidents, rhe worst he could remember was o finger slommed in o cor door by o nervous student. Mr. Lien. Mr. Don Luedke. ond Mr. Richard Terry ore rhe three brave men that take new drivers ond turn them into experienced motorists. Each instructor has gone through more than 30 hours of special training in order to reoch this doss. Along with rhe actual driving, they use simulators when reaching Driver Education dosses. The simulators ore used to develop rhe perceptive skills ond mental tasks needed when driving. The cors used by this deportment ore leased from various dealers in Lincoln. New cors ore received or least once o year. Doyle Jones won t be enticed into rhe pool PE altered The Physical Education Deportment has gone through several srrucrural changes in rhe lost few years. Before rhe changes were mode o student could pick any two gym dosses to fulfill the graduation requirements. Now rhe Physical Educotion dosses ore divided into four groups. A student still has to take two gym dosses, bur rhe dosses must be from different groupings. The dosses ore divided into groups of ream sports ond fitness activities, individual ond dual sports, recrea- tional activities, ond aquatics. The new graduation requirements were rhe couse of this change. Students ore now required to participate in o variety of sports, developing skills needed in individual os well os ream sports. Two of rhe most populor gym dosses this year were Self-Defense ond Body Conditioning. Self-Defense was o new doss this year, while Body Conditioning has been offered or LHS for several yeors Body Conditioning was previously thought of os o doss for mole body builders. But in recent yeors more girls hove been taking rhe doss because they hove found that it is o good way to keep in shape. In rhe Self-Defense doss, students learned to defend themselves with basic korore moves. Rich Miller prepares ro rake a drive 138—Academics

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Left: The Economics bulletin booed is full of interesting informotion Right: Dob Kraft proves rhor psychology experiments con be tricky Goals remain same The Social Studies Deportment is one of the largest departments in the school. Many different courses ore o port of this deportment Today o student con study almost everything from International Relations to Modern US. History to Sociology. The variety of classes gives students o brooder background in the social studies orea. Because of the change in graduation requirements two years ago, many of the Social Studies dosses ore new or revised. Modern U.S. History used to be American His- tory and was fought for on entire year. Sociology and Global Perspectives ore relatively new classes, and Citi- zenship Issues will be offered for the first rime next year Social Studies Deportment Head Mr. Harold Scott said that many of these dosses ore very good bur supplies ore too limited. Books and orloses ore o couple of items needed to moke these dosses better Spelling, communication skills, ond working toward assumption of responsibilities by students were the goals of this deportment lost year This year the Social Studies Deportment hod no new gools. According to Mr. Scott, the teachers met but could nor totally agree, so lost year's gools were still used because new ones couldnr be established. Coach Aldie Johnson mokes American History interesting Academics—137

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Newest department InsrruCTional Resources is o deportment which serves around 140 students with special needs, including stu- dents in the gifted program and English as a Second Language The deportment consists of nine full-time and two part-time staff members, although some of these teachers also reach in other departments Robert Buckner is the deportment choirmon The mom purpose of the deportment is to give students extra help in areas where they are weak, such as reading or math. This year sow the Developmental Learning FVogram (DLP), the Learning Disability FVogrom (LDP), and other special programs combined under one heading. Instruc- tional Resources. The purpose of this was to provide the students in these programs with the benefits of the Instruc- tional Resources FVogram. The real strength of the program, according to Instructional Resources Teacher Marv Rader, is the close association between individual student and the instructor The students have someone rhor they con relate to, someone rhor they can rake their problems to, even if those problems oren t school related The program also provides on academically relaxed working environ- ment, without the pressures often found in the normal classroom setting. Efforts are also made to mainstream' Instructional Resources students into other programs and into srandord classes. Another goal of the deportment is securing successful employment for the students. The Work-Study FVogram provides job candidates with the experience rhor they will need to obtain jobs. Marti Instructor Harvey Sroner Is in charge of rhe gifted program Above: Mr Roder helps Ram Rosecrans with o morh problem Below: If Hoong Ho con nome three Beetles members she will win o T-shirt ond o six-pock of Mountain Dew Teny Copetand reods o short story Acodemics—139