Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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the Story of man and his achievements. The sun is just coming up as Gerald Spring gives an oral report on religion in Miss Warren’s sociology class. World history takes us back to the dino- sauer days, and pauses for a glimps of the Dark Ages, the great religions of the world, the Renaissance period, and finally modern times. American history is concerned with our first settlers, how we won our independ- ence, the Presidents, the Constitution, and the laws based upon it. Civics is an introduction to other social studies. A general look at everything re- lated to government, religion, economics, and American history. American government helps the students understand the country in which they will soon have a major role. Duties of the Presidents, political parties, national con- ventions, and city governmental procedures are but a few of the points covered by Sen- iors in this class. Sociology, another Senior subject, is a study of society in its “normal” function- ing to show how human beings live and work together in common routine patterns. Mr. Lincoln’s government class discusses the changes which will be made in the running of our state government if the new proposed constitution is adopted. 29

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Z)he paH i related to the present in telling. Mrs. Patterson’s American history students learn the value of using the library to further their knowledge of the past. In Mr. Pesano’s ninth grade civics class, Simone Oden gives an oral report on the city manager form of government, a topic of vital interest to Port Huron. Penelope Haugner and David Knisley outline the boundaries of the Roman Empire for the benefit of Miss Miller’s world history class. 28

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Students work out their geometry homework problems on the board while the rest of the class compare their proofs. Algebra is an exact science. It deals with negative and imaginary numbers and uses letters and o ther symbols as well as numbers in calculating. If you find yourself in a class where you are constructing two dimensional figures according to directions and specifications and you are working with proofs, angles, lines, and compasses, then you are taking Plane Geometry. But if you have been reading Plato’s “Republic”- - a study in pure logic, or working with spheres, cylinders and cones- -then you are in a Solid Geometry class. Trigonometry- -a word composed of three Greek words meaning “three-angle measurement”- -indi- cates that the subject deals with measurements connected with a triangle. Mathematic find olution