Springdale High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Springdale, AR)

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Besides creating new courses, revisions in the English Department twisted some easy five point courses into eighteen week gauntlets. Students from 'American Novel' went about dazedly asking, Moby who? -and later, the school pondered as young women, paperback copies of Andersonville in hand, made frequent dashes to the bathroom. Flexibility was obvious as composition classes taught students how to express themselves while down the hall students took tape recorded tests when expression was more important than written style. English effects were felt elsewhere as literature courses brought back old-fashioned study dates for couples who fell behind-tYou read the even chapters, and l'll read the odd.J Other students began speaking a Middle English gibberish from reading too much in Canterbury Tales and grammar students found themselves saying 'question mark' instead of inflecting their voices when asking something. English variely gained through semester classes Dorothy Kay Fleda Catherine Creighton Flanagan Gray McDuffie 5-.. M Mx? 1 I , V, - asia:-.W gr Z Top center: Television brings soap operas right into class for Film Media study Above: Reading machines prove to be helpful in increasing speed and com- prehension. Right: Students create their own perfect world through picture col- lages as part of an assignment on James Hilton's Lost Horizon. 26!Mind Expansion

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Life cis it was, as it is, GS it may be An administrative decision moved Social Studies classes to the north building at semester, compelling students to either stroll across the street on clear days or race across through rain and ice. lSome even found the whole idea ofthe 'turkey trot' exhausting and hid in the restrooms or Iurked in the lobby. Instead of the usual fat book and full year of study, sophomores taking History chose between semester classes. 'Early Man,' 'The Age of Kings and Queens,' 'Modern Times,' and other courses covered the most emphasized topics of World History allowing students to study a time period interesting to them. Taking psychology meant studying your own behavior almost as much as others. Color association and l. Q. tests were common experiences for those taking the course, and periodically even the student body was subjected to behavioral tests as students made individual investigations. i , iii? 4 ,tag i ' 2 fre. ' i t 'A f-9' Q L - ' IJ' t s t r g 'f A A K6 ,' I i P - Je. -J ' . . , .. ,, ,VIL r ,Qs - ' .f Q. QW Q z ,R . , 4 'H ,,...sf Lett: A mock arrest is enacted by Sociology stu- dents Barry Smith and Alan Ivey. Top left: Ameri- can History students find that map study makes the 1970 census easier to understand. Top right: Volunteer subjects take part in a phychology ex- periment to test memory. Above: A complex system of charts is used to study Early Man. Mind Expansion!25

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.'3l!!0 'Lian'- .- is N 1 W F m 'H F r N A l Left Betty Doyle finds that lfat first you don't succeed,try try again Right Jennifer Wright gives her final recital for Creative Writing Gay Perkins Alice Shepherd Carolyn Smart Jenny Tolliver Barbara Williams Mike Wilson Mind Expanslonl27