Weslaco High School - La Palma Yearbook (Weslaco, TX)

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Young Voters Corsider '72 Election Issues When I8 year olds received the right to vote this year, suddenly almost 900 students in WHS joined their other counterpart adults in becoming involved, aware, apathetic, and all the other adjectives that apply to the American voter. Social studies, particularly government, suddenly became more relevant than ever before students did re- search, interviewing, and considering of the prime issues beliorc the public . . . this year, drugs, sealing down of the Viet Nam war, local, state and county elections, education, and law and order. Registering to vote and campaigning by school policy arc not permitted on campus, -but students nonetheless spent informal hours off campus concerning themselves with the business of being responsible citizens. As the year came to a close, the last ofthe states were considering the womenis rights amendment to the Constitu- tion . . . an amendment which the Texas legislature passed during a special pre-Easter session. Campus girls mused over their new dralt status, along with the rights they won.

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AT RIGHT: Osborne Little's government classes combined reading and original research on drugs, city and state problems, with traditional government stud- ies this spring. 'TOP RIGHT: Johnny Trevino points out an area being studied dming Obert Aga's fourth period American history class. BELOW: It's test time in jim Davis, American history class. 14X Academics

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FAR RIGHT: Gladys Pfrim- mer and Homer Villarreal listen ton and read a Freneh hook at the same time. Playing a French record in Order to get more familiar in ac- cents and intonations is Juvenal Luna. Records, Tapes Help Students of Language French and Spanish class members played records and tapes to familiarize themselves with the pronunciation of words of both languages. ln all language classes, they learned how to speak Spanish and French, and about the history of the countries which speak them. The PASF and French clubs, through their activities, enrich the interest of the students in the languages. Both languages study the past and present culture and costumes. The French classes got together to help sponsor a play, and the Spanish classes helped with the uLas Posadasi' and Mexican suppers. Spanish classes, initially, are divided into classes for students whose home language is Spanish, and for those whose home language is English, with special emphasis on needs ol' both groups. Many of the students in French classes already speak fluent English and Spanish, thus French becomes a third language for them. 16fAcademies - .:. , ,.., ,,,,,gy:.,, ,,,..,,,,, W H k,, meme?