Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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Part of the course—Civics student Linda Calvert looks over a map of the election dis -tricts of Muncie. As this school term included an election, many classes at Central made studies on the progresses of an election. Politics seemed to be the favorite topic among Centralites until Nov. 8. On the air. Central students Karen Neiswander, Pat Garard, Jeannine Wagoner, Jane Brown, and Larry Dotson are on a T. V. panel. Students Learn That It’s a Small World Though Also an Immensely Changing One Sounding it out, Marcy Clark makes use of the language booth. This new addition has been of great help to Central’s students taking Spanish, French or Latin as one of their electives. 24

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Generating: electricity through their bodies, Richard Cecil (standing) and Tom Ross do a weird lighting experiment in physics class. A few years ago this would have been out of the question, but now such projects occur in classrooms almost everywhere.

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Sardine-can conditions, or the togetherness situation at Central, make cramming the most into the shortest amount of space a dire necessity. Accordingly, the Foreign Language Department used the old ingenuity and scrunched” a weird-looking chamber between locker rows. This nook, called The Booth,' is a practice area where ambitious students can hear themselves talk the foreign lingo. Aids for these scholars are a tape recorder, a record player and trained operators. French, Spanish, and even the ancient Latin classes sparkle when popular rock n’ roll ditties are translated; and novel objects connected with the course provoke the curiosity. More than half the huge number of students at Central are enrolled in one of the social studies classes, twelve teachers being the instructors. These pupils of human customs and institutions may finish their social studies requirements for high school by taking one of four subjects: economics, world citizenship, American neighbors or modern problems. 2,500 years old! Anything that old deserves to be treated Marilyn Baney are doing. This Roman relic is one object carefully, and that is just what students Max Douglas and studied by students of archaeology in advanced Latin classes.