Mentone High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Mentone, IN)

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Top: Tom Lowman “flips” over Roger Drudge’s demon- stration speech. Above: Concentrating or daydreaming; whichever, Craig Doran seems to be enjoying it. Left: Terry Jacks speaks on John Keat’s works in English Literature. 21

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Speeches highlighted the English II classes as Jerry Whetstone proves while demonstrating his shaving technique. COMMUNICATING IS OBJECT OF CLASSES » • The English classes this year were divided among four teachers: Mr. Craw, Mrs. Faas, Mrs. Hoke, and Mr. McClure. The various classes covered everything from Shakespeare and Julius Caesar to Lord Byron and Alexander Pope-from nouns and prepositions to personification and onomatopoeia. The sophomores spent a lot of time with speeches, while the seniors concentrated mainly on literature and journalism. The freshmen relearned the basics, and the juniors did a little bit of everything. Mr. Craw kept things moving in Spanish II. The students undertook the challenge of Spanish dancing. They prepared special Mexican foods and even risked eating their feast, con- sisting of tacos and tortillas. Mr. McClure taught one class of Latin II with two students who studied the language itself and its derivatives, the Roman literature of Virgil, Ovid, and others, the Romans, other ancient Europeans, and the conquests of Julius Caesar. Top: Jo Rector explains to the Senior English class how to go about setting up their pages for the Times Union. Above: One-two-three, step-two-three ’, as the Spanish II class learns a Mexican dance. 20

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Mr. Gamble taught two Biology 1 classes and a Biology 11 class. As a class, the students typed their blood and listened to intense lectures on various fields of biology. The advanced class did this and dissected fetal pigs, and completed a thorough study of man’s anatomy. Besides Biology, Freshmen could take Earth Science or Physical Science taught by Mrs. Jane Hall. In Earth Science they looked at the Earth’s lay- ers and peculiarities of the Earth. Physical Science students received an introduction to chemistry, geology, and biology. Chemistry students early in the year, separated into lab partners who developed their laboratory skills and techniques in performing experi- ments with chemicals and carefully observing the reactions. They also struggled together working equations. Seven Seniors took Physics also taught by Mr. Gamble. The class read from their book and did many equa- tions. They tried many experiments finding the specific heat of many things. They studied velocity and gravitational pull and ended the year working with the ripple tank and a strobe. EXPERIENCE WITH EXPERIMENTS 22