Madison Township High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Wakarusa, IN)

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}: IN PHYSICS class, Kay Hayden and Roger Conrad stand ready to assist Ronnie Holmes as he measures the force on a fixed pulley with a spring balance. Madisonites keep EXPERIMENTS enable eighth graders to under- stand science principles. Virginia White and Patty Verheye show temperature and pressure changes. Page erghteen DIFFERENT SPECIES of leaves are identified by biology students (front) R. Laidig, R. Moore, and P. Bronstad, (rear) F. Carrico, and S. Marker. abreast of current Generally, the course of least resistence is the easiest to follow. But at Madison pupils do not follow the path of the easiest subjects. They plunge into science and social studies courses so that they may become better informed of the world about them. Science students study the unpredictable weather and how the earth is constantly being redesigned by nature. Plant and animal life is studied more extensively by the bio- logy students. Atomic structure, calories, power, and theories of matter are some of the topics of concern to the physics class. With the world situation being what it is today, it is imperative that Americans under- stand and appreciate our democratic form of government. People in other countries are depending upon us for help and guidance. At Madison, students learn first about the background of their State and nation by studying Indiana history and United States history. Then when they are seniors, they take up civics which deals with our own type of government as well as others.

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high school students for college life What would we do without our oral means of communication? We certainly wouldn't be able to communicate as effectively with others. At Madison, students try to improve their speech by studying English, Latin, and speech. English classes help the student to improve upon both his written and oral means of communication. Speech specializes in teach- ing the student how to make a speech before a group. Training obtained from speech will help the student prepare himself for any speech he may have to make for any occasion. Many people think that Latin only pertains to old ruins and such like. However, derived from Latin are the bases of many languages, including our own. Students who are planning to enter college usually try to work algebra, advanced algebra, and geometry into their curriculum. These subjects seem to be the stepping stones for USING A PANTOGRAPH, Janet Hunsberger and = the students ta higher learning in college. Mike Stevens enlarge a map in geometry class. i | IN ALGEBRA CLASS, Doug Flory attempts to ADVANCED ALGEBRA students Richard Schmidt explain a tricky problem to his classmates. and Roberta Ewing work on difficult equations. Page seventeen

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INDIANA HISTORY students Sharon DeLoddere ILLUSTRATIONS of government procedures and and Donald Holmes study the map of Indiana as buildings are posted on the bulletin board by Diane Roberta Davidhizar points out St. Joseph County. Weigel and Fred Mitchell for the civics ‘class. events and recent science discoveries WEEKLY SENIOR SCHOLASTIC magazines provide U. S. history students with topics for current event discussions. Reports and debates are taken from these magazines and presented to the class. Shown are S. Grise, T. Manges, K. Hayden, and R. Holmes. Page nineteen