Palmer High School - Terror Trail Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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many new courses offered to students As a result of Palmer's new variable scheduling, a multitude of new classes were made available to the students. Basic courses that would have been offered five days a week were broken up into more specialized classes that met two or three days a week. Completely new classes in a wide variety of subjects were also added. Some courses met for two periods twice a week instead of one period five days a week. New courses included the Prince Charming and Cinderella Myth, CEnglishDg German Grammar and Composition, French Novels in English, fforeign languagesbg Personal Finance, Elementary Logic, Probabilities and Statistics, Cmathematicsjg Exploration-Colonization, Revolution and Constitu- tion, Young Republic, American Frontier, Civil War and Reconstruction, Gilded Age, Between Two Wars, Minorities U.S.A., History of the Southwest, the Middle Ages, the Isms, Soviet Studies, Anthropology, Chistorybg Rocks and Minerals, Geomorphology, Fossils, Geology of Colorado Springs Area, Csciencejz Employment Preparation, Office Simulation, Filing, Cbusinesslg En- vironmental Design, Two and Three Dimensional Design, Cartjg Creative Cookery, Food Service, fhome economicsbg Home Wiring and Planning, Machine Design, Cindustrial educationjg Jobs, fcareer educationsjg and numerous physical education classes.

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ff Dear Pa1mer Student: The 1975-1976 schoo1 year is unique if for no other reason than it marked the advent of the Centennia1!Bicentennia1 ce1ebration. In commemoration with the spirits of pioneer Americans in 1776 and 1876, this schoo1 year saw the educationa1 frontiers expanded at Pa1mer with the introduction of variab1e schedu1ing. Imp1ementation of variab1e schedu1ing required con- siderab1e p1anning, design and preparation on the part of the staff and this resu1ted in a wider variety of course offerings as we11 as a change in the schedu1ing. A major objective of variab1e schedu1ing is that it continues to provide students with the very strong academic program now a tradition at Pa1mer. This year was an auspicious one for the students at Pa1mer High Schoo1 for it saw a very distinct change in the attitude and performance of Pa1mer ath1etic teams. The fa11 season was notab1e for the first foot- ba11 win over Wasson High Schoo1 by a 22-20 score in a doub1e overtime. The gir1s vo11eyba11 team tied for the South Centra1 League Championship, won the District P1ay-Off and represented Pa1mer at the State Tournament. The gir1s swim team won the South Centra1 League Championships, the A11 City Meet and finished 6th in the State Tournament. The boys basketba11 team is having its first winning season in severa1 years and at the time of this writing, it is our hope that they wi11 represent Pa1mer in District andfor State competition. It is a1so our hope that the hockey, swim and gir1s basketba11 teams as we11 as the spring sports wi11 continue these winning ways. The year was marked'by a teachers' strike which made a11 peop1e aware of our constitutiona1 right to an education which is something taken for granted but perhaps we 1earned both as staff and as students that such a right is enhanced when both the 1earner and the educator work together to make this a rea1ity. Pa1mer is a1ways a p1easant p1ace to be because of the beauti- fu1 peop1e who are students and staff. In the words of the c1ass of 1974: Uwe sha11 a1ways be proud to have been members of Wi11iam J. Pa1mer High Schoo1, to recognize that re- gard1ess of co1or, c1ass or creed, man's destiny is our destiny and on1y as we 1earn to 1ive together wi11 we move forward together.H 28 2 Siniire1y,