Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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HISTORY The courses currently offered in the History Department are: geography, in the seventh grade, American history, in grades eight and twelve, world civiliza- tion in grade nine, and economics, in either grade eleven or grade twelve. The first of the courses in American history, taught to students in the eighth grade by Mr. Baker, deals with the principal movements and most important figures in the history of our country. The second course, conducted by Mr. Harrity, the Department chairman, enables the seniors to probe the political, economic, and social ideas on which present-day society rests. Students in this course under- take a number of research proiects throughout the year. The purpose of Mr. Berkeley's course in world civilization is to view the history of the world, from the stone age to the present day, with an eye to gaining a better perspective of the world situation today. Geography, also taught by Mr. Berkeley, reveals to the seventh grader the foundations of geography and the ways in which they are related to current world events. ln Mr. Berkeley's discussion course in economics, the students survey consumer and marketing problems, banking, prices, and the like. This course is intended to give the student a better understanding of the American economic system. In addition to the foregoing, courses in ancient history and modern European history are offered from time to time. 'I3

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SCIENCE Park School offers a full science curriculum for Upper School students-biology for sophomores, chemistry for juniors, and physics for seniors. The Science Depart- ment has its own building for classes and laboratory work, a building equipped with valuable instruments and chemical supplies 'For student use. The Park School Development Program includes plans for a new science building designed to give the school even better facilities for work in this vital field. During the past year Assistant Headmaster Kimber headed the Department and taught biology, while Mr. Garrett experienced the pleasure of returning to his old iob of teaching chemistry and physics. 12

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LOWER SCHCOL PROGRAM Shrill cries of Sir and Ma'am, shouts of ioy, racing of feet Through the cor- ridors, sound of blithe laughter across the school grounds-that's the Lower School. A place of study and play for boys in grades one through six, the Lower School building is the long structure south of the lab. A visitor looking through the win- dows might observe the teaching of subiects ranging from arithmetic to counsel- ling. He might imagine that he was watching the molding of young minds-and he would not be wrong. Under the direction of Mr. Holzman and his able staff of teachers, the boys are grounded in the fundamentals ofthe subjects they will have to cope with throughout their school experience. Lower school boys learn the way to play as well as the way to work. Good sportsmanship and fair play are among the qualities fostered in their program. 14