New Haven High School - Mirage Yearbook (New Haven, IN)

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ELECTIONS AND WAR— (Above) United States Government teacher Miss Betty Leuenberger explains a sample election ballot to senior Dave De Voe. (Left) Junior Ed Treace inspects a current events bulletin board on the topic of Viet Nam war. A call from the local draft board faced many graduating seniors. in social studies NAPOLEONIC HISTORY— Mr. Edmund Zapp uses a map to clarify his points on the Napoleonic Era to world history students Jim Reams. Pat Geise, and Pam Taylor. They are all sophomores.

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MARK OF A TEACHER— Textbooks and reference works filled the rack that dominated the corner of Mr. Thomas HuflTord ' s desk. U.S. History students Craig Rogers, Greg Purvis, Sharon Bennett, and Penny Lepper take notes and Usten intently to the class lecture. Vietnamese war dominates current events Audio visuals played an important role in social studies courses. Films presenting clips from history, past and present, and geographical studies were shown. Movies on American foreign policy were studied to acquaint the student with his country and world. May 18 and 19 the movie, Mein Kampf was shown. It followed Adolph Hitler and his naziism from the time he was an unskilled transient through his domination of most of Europe. It portrayed the horrors of concentration camps and the utter uselessness and destruc- tion of war. In November a government class was initiated into the mechanics of voting. They studied the paper Let ' s Talk Politics which gave information on elected officers and briefly stated party platforms. Student committees, appointed to study the paper, prepared questions in outline form to present to the class. Then, as in any real election, they pre- pared election buttons, campaign posters, and campaign papers and pamphlets. An all-morning lecture on Civil Defense was in the Auditorium for area government students in December. After the program. Civil Defense was studied in the classes. They studied shelter information — their location and what to expect of the people in them. Shelter problems of provi- sions and communications were taught. Special information on the construction of home shelters was given. Students completing the work were awarded certificates. The undeclared war in Viet Nam was a major current events discussion topic. Many students had relatives and friends fighting in the jungle war which had taken over 10,000 American lives by the end of school. The power struggle and the evolution of the teenage Red Guard in China, and the American and Soviet space disasters were other topics of discussion. A history class had panel discus- sions about draft laws and teacher strikes on the local level. In studying the intricate workings of the American form of legislation, a U.S. Government class conducted its own senate session. Students set up the mock senate to put into practice their knowledge of our legislative branch of govern- ment. Each student wrote a bill and submitted it to a com- mittee. The senate committee read the bills and sent the better ones to the senate floor. After discussion and debate the bills were voted on. From the session the students decided to declare war on Viet Nam, repeal the medicare law, and to lower the legal voting age from 21 . The psychology and sociology classes studied the problems of man in his environment and man and his mind. In the spring, they took a battery of personality tests.

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Mathematics classes prepare students EQUATION DRILL— Paula Percy, Melodie Rose, Chuck Rossman, Dean Stine, and Gary Karbach work first year algebra equations at the blackboard. Reviews and board drills helped the students learn and retain the basic con- cepts of algebra. LOGIC AND REA,SONING— Jerry Ambrosini, sophomore, uses reasoning, logic, and common sense to complete a geometry assignment. FIR.ST DEGREE EQUATION— Sophomore Kit Conrad plots an equation on a graph projected on the board by an over-head projector.