Mentone High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Mentone, IN)

Page 21 text:

ANCIENT, FOREIGN, AND NATIVE All foreign language classes were smaller this year and relatively in- active. However, the decreased class size presented opportunities for the students to gain more from their studies. Mr. McClure’s Latin 1 stu- dents not only conjugated verbs but also studied some Roman cus- toms, Spanish students had a new PROFESSOR this year, DON Don Craw. Spanish I students, LeeAnn and Debbie, test themselves by conjugating via blackboard as an example for fellow students. This smiling clown is really a pinata, which was on display in the Spanish room to give a native look to the otherwise ‘blah’ sur- roundings. 17

Page 20 text:

STUDENTS STUDY LANGUAGES The South Bend Tribune sponsored “News- paper Week” to encourage students to read. “To be, or not to be ..Although most MHSers were, they’d rather not have been—in English class that is! Reading seemed to be strongly empha- sized this year. A week was even set aside to boost newspaper reading. Also, many verbs were conjugated and many novels read. In all the Eng.-Lit. classes, teachers tried to expand learning hori- zons for their students through im- provement and investigation of their native language. Nice fall weather drew Mrs. Brumbaugh’s Senior English Class out to relax on the school lawn as they read their Lit. assign- ments. This unique pantomime is an example of the humor in hand motions as studied by Advanced Speech students. Marj’s hands do the motions to Mrs. Brumbaugh’s story. Jarry and Rick make a speech on home brew. Alcohol and many other such sub- jects make interesting speeches for Mr. Craw’s sophomore speech class.

Page 22 text:

STUDENTS PROVE AND SOLVE Chemistry student Steve Reed fills a wide-mouth bottle to prepare for a pure oxygen experiment. The science room took on a new look as it was filled with gerbils, mice, leeches, and terrariums to help stu- dents observe more closely the aspects of biology and advanced biology. These two classes, chemistry, and physics were also kept busy by con- ducting various experiments under the watchful eye of Mr. Gamble. The study of General Science and Human Anatomy Physiology came under the jurisdiction of Mr. Sheets. While Mr. Hinkle learned to cope with students, the math classes learned to solve proofs and equations, planes and graphs. Learning to add long columns of numbers was the task un- dertaken by the students in Mr. Huff- man’s Business Math Class. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and divi- sion made up the core of the General Math class under the supervision of Mr. Welch. 18 Geometry has many angles. This seems to be what Gary Peters is thinking as he bisects a triangle. Biology students were given a chance to observe first hand the study of plant growth. Here, Physics student John Nyenhuis peeks through one of the flourishing plants.