River Forest High School - Ingot Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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ENGLISH DEPT. EMPHASIZES COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS The students at River Forest are required to have four years of English. The English department of- fers composition, literature, speech, journalism, and the opportunity to work on the Melting Pot news- paper, the Ingot yearbook, and the Reflector literary magazine. Academic English classes are scheduled for col- lege bound students. They prepare the students by going deeper into the structure of the English language, by analyzing classic and contemporary novels, and by writing critical papers. Non-academic classes mainly prepare students to take good English into the business world and into everyday living. Head of the department, Miss Betty Major, feels that English is really learning communication in all forms. Mr. Garcia explains a grammatical detail to Al- ice Allen, while other members of the senior English class work on their semester term papers. Members of Miss Vitkovich ' s junior English class enjoy a moment of humor before returning to serious class activity. MRS. NATALIE KELLER MR. TOM HONTZ MR. SERGIO GARCIA MISS BETTY MAJOR MRS. JUDITH PRICE MRS. VIOLA SODERSTROM MISS ZORINE VITKOVICH II

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MRS. JUDITH WATSON MR. RICHARD WATSON Mr. Gene Adamczyk goes over a point in Russian grammar with his Russian seminar group. LARGE SELECTION OF LANGUAGES OFFERED Today many colleges and universities require at least two years of a foreign language. For a school the size of River Forest, a wide selection of foreign lan- guages is offered. These include Spanish, French, and Latin taught by Mr. Richard Watson, French and German instructed by Mrs. Judith Watson, and Russian taught by Mr. Gene Adamczyk. The department is proud of its well-equipped language laboratory. There stu- dents can hear the language they are studying on tapes by natives of that country. Also, languages are being taught in the junior high. For every year of foreign language study, junior high students get one semester of high school credit. French and German are the only languages offered in the junior high as yet. Shelly Disney and Jim Dixon receive individual instruction on their French lessons from Mrs. Watson. Mr. Watson stands by while students listen to Spanish tape record- ings in the language laboratory. 10

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SCIENCE DEPT. UTILIZES KNOWLEDGE BY EXPERIMENT MISS DIANE DECKER MR. DONALD FRAME Mr. Frame looks over an experiment by Kay Kania and Mikey Sue Lee, but John Stankovich and Dave Soderquist seem to find Martin Beck more interesting. Mark Mullee and Larry Hartley receive instruction from Mr. Studtmann on the dissection of a cat in an advanced biology class. MRS. KATHY HOOKS MR. EARL STUDTMANN One laboratory science course is required to qualify a student for graduation. Students may take physical science, or biology and, if they plan to minor or major in science, they may continue with chemistry, physics, or ad- vanced biology. On lab days Mr. Earl Studtmann and Mrs. Kathy Hooks instructed their biology classes in the proper methods of dissection and identifica- tion. Mr. Studtmann offered a more specific study of physiology in his advanced biology class and lab sessions were given over more to the individual student. Miss Diane Decker, who took the place of Mr. Henry Greischair at the beginning of the school year, taught physical science and physics. Chemistry labs were con- ducted under Mr. Donald Frame, who also taught a new class for the study of electricity. Three physics students, John Stankovich, Larry Morgan, and Spencer Servey, work with a giant slide rule while Miss Decker and Wade Anderson watch the sparks fly on an electrostatic apparatus. 12