Shadle Park High School - Sporran Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Classes Cover Campaign Analyzing the Ballot Box Battle of the ' 68 campaign characterized work in the Social Studies Department. Also supplementing course content, instructors expanded educational television programming and evaluated existing curriculum. Students followed the 1968 elections in their classes, helping them prepare for an ASB- sponsored mock election registering Shadle preferences for president, governor, U.S. senator, and other state officers. The results were tabulated as part of a state-wide high school ballot. Educational Television, ETV, brought candidates and the issues closer to social studies students, as well as providing current discussion material through video tape replay programs. Struggle for Peace , a National Educational Television series, was a popular program among senior classes as they studied the current world conflicts and the ensuing manuevers for peaceful solutions. BELOW: Mr. Ken Judd discusses with his sociology students the effects of society on government These students also studied the effects of crime, religion, and various other problems in society through lecture and research. ABOVE: Mr. William Meuler explains the risks of playing the stock market. Students learned the importance of doing research on a company before buying their stock and the rewards of a carefully thought out purchase of stocks.

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i ABOVE: Sophomore Cathy White gives a speech supporting presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon in her World History class. During the campaign, Mrs. Georgians Sutherlin took polls in the class to prepare students for the mock ASB election. BELOW: Government students listen to Mr. Eugene Bell as he lectures on the necessity of government in every society. Seniors in this class learned the different types of governments and compared them to that of the United States. ABOVE: Straining their memories, students in Mr. Larry Clark ' s U.S. History class struggle to put down the answers to a pop quiz as he reads the questions. Quizzes were common as teachers checked the student ' s homework habits. 22

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ABOVE: Biology student Loren Dorman, concentrates on his experiment involving diffusion. Biology classes provided incentive for study in many areas of plant and animal life. New Content Science Department classes stimulated student interest with the addition of modern equipment and new course content in 1968 and 1969. Integrated Science, now in its third year, boasted an enrollment increase of 25 percent this year over previous years. By means of the team-teaching method, this class delved into such areas as physics, astronomy, chemistry, and oceanography. A laser beam proved a supplement to physics classes as students studied the effects of the laser beam in the modern world. Mr. Tex Clark, physics teacher, explained, There are many uses for the laser beam, but there are many uses which are, as of yet, undiscovered. 24