St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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Develop Democracy Bill Cameron is catching up on the news. Someday ho will be a voter, and he may also determine the future of the country by his knowledge of current affairs. Paris, a girl's dream come true. Mary Rohr shows thof she knows how to interpret maps by her persistence In explaining to her clossmotes why she wants to travel to France. Mary is not only thinking obout the Paris fashions but also the scenic spots, such os the Eiffel Tower. Joff Monger doesn't appear to be as interested os the rest of the students in Poris; he is trying to discover his own land of enchantment. World geography is a course that includes the study of people and places. After reading one of the Great Books, it requires a good deal of thought before the student writes his paper on his viewpoints of the different philosophies such as, religion, ethics, economics and politics. By studying other philosophies, students are urged to develop their own philosophies. Fighting like cats and dogs? No, Marcia Weyrouch ond Bill Martin are merely discussing tho democratic theory with Mr. Olson. Controversies often arise in sociol problems. Marcia doesn't agree with Bill on how democratic ideas apply to our present day problems. 13

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The Social Sciences Woke up Billl Oh, he isn't sleeping; he is concentrating on Aristotle's Politics, one of the selections which is read in humanities. A lot of thought is required to understand the various philosophies in politics. In the social science classes we learn many things, but each one leads to the specific purposes of the department. These purposes are: to train the students to be good citizens in our democratic way of life, to teach students to develop reasoning power and critical judgment and to encourage desirable patterns of conduct, as the teaching of factual knowledge is not enough. The social sciences relate to the beginning, organization and development of human society and to the improvement of each of the conditions under which man lives, economic, political, cultural and social. Whot would it hove been like to be on Indian? Jeon Hcminghauj discontinues her reading for a minute to contemplote the days of the young republic from 1789-1815. She allows her imagination to run wild os she pictures the appearance of on Indion chief. American history is the study of the struggles of the American people as they fought to improve the democratic process. Certain social skills and traits must be acquired to perfect the intended result of democracy. HISTORY Of A FREE PEOPLE Putt the stringsl Penny Rich h having difficulty showing these world history students the operation of roising and lowering a device which wos used to storm the walls of costles. This device is one exomp’.e of the type of project these students con make In world history. 12

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Science and Math Because of our rapidly changing world, we demand more skillful scientists. In this atomic age, science and math go hand in hand to form the destiny of the world. In science the fundamental laws of nature are taught in order to establish a foundation of knowledge. This foundation can then be the basis for specific skills and knowledge to mold a useful citizen of the world. Science is used for medicine, electronics, and guided missiles, to name a few things. Science is a field of study that can benefit all of mankind. Bob Baroth, Bob Bossmon, Judy Morch and Mary Mayhew are in the process of woighing lead dioxide in a crucible. Lectures, demonstrations and experiments are features that describe St. Louis Park's chemistry classes. The students learn the composition of substances and various elementary forms of matter. What are you digging for, Kay? Dissection seems to be Kay Lenmork's specialty. The formaldehyde doesn't bothor her as she separates the parts of the grasshopper's body. Biology is the study of living things, but it looks os though Kay has killed her specimen. Pork's expert physicists. These boys ore conducting a sound experiment in their physics classes. They are trying to deter-mine the wave length of a sound by filling a column with water and holding the tuning fork over the top in order to let the water run out to reach the point where the sound is the loudest. John Leebens and Lowell Gordon will probably succeed In increasing the sound if the column of air is the right length so that it vibratos sympathetically with the tuning fork. 14