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

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tongues The foreign language dept, lost one course and gained two new teachers of other languages. Rus- sian was dropped from the schedule. Mrs. Turpin returned to instruct the Spanish classes and Mrs. Pana- ranto took over the only French class. Spanish was in such high demand this year that a new course was opened up. Spanish III was offered to students who wished to get a ma- jor in one language alone. However, French lost it ' s charisma and dropped to one hour a day . Despite this year ' s complete turnabout, Spanish seemed to be a language students didn ' t lose interest in. Mike Westerhout lea-ns to say his ABC ' s. 22

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Students get fit for class Students hustle for the ball. Kathy Patton takes a jump shot in gym class. Physical education was required for all freshmen, but could be taken by other students. The aim of this program was to stress fitness. Mr. Logan taught boys ' advanced physical education, and Mr. Koslovsky was the fresh- men ' s teacher. A new teacher. Miss Lephart, instructed the girls ' pe classes. Mr. Koslovsky and Mr. Byrd taught the health classes which were required for all sophomores. Mental ill- ness, disease, and first aid were among the basic necessities of health taught this year. Mr. Byrd gets ready to give a few notes. Mr. Spencer, Dept. Head 21

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Social Studies center on the celebration Students plan for a debate. The 1776-1976 years were celebrated in the social studies de- partment. The theme for the 1975-76 year was Our Bicentennial. Plans for the bicenten- nial included seeing a film entitled The Howards of Virginia. Book covers were made depicting the Bi- centennial. The designs included the American flag, the liberty bell, the statue of liberty, and pictures of the famous presidents. U.S. History, gov- ernment, economics, social studies and psy- chology were classes of- fered in the social stu- dies department. Cindy Hajvert and Maria Garza spend time studying. 23