William Mitchell High School - Apogee Explo Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Doris Sestokas reads an article on medieval society for her world history class. Lively discussions occur often in Mr. William ZapeI's American government class, .--Y F 'x Mr. Roger Douglas lectures to his large economics class on the German philosopher Hegel and dialectic rationalism.

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Ron Ringler listens to Joan Baez as he reads a psychology chapter. Enlargements on four of the already existing re- source centers andthe creation of a new arts resource center helped relieve the crowded conditions and con- gestion ofthe previous year. The new resource center served students enrolled in industrial, practical, and fine arts courses. Its purpose, like that of the other resource cen- ters, was to act as a quiet study area where students could make up tests, work on homework and study. Available in the main resource center for the first time were records to suit everyone's tastes. Included were selections ranging from Alan Hovhaness' Pre- lude and Quadruple Fugue to Rogers and Hammer- stein's Oklahoma! Most popular, however, were Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon and Garfunkle and HeIp! by the Beatles. Mitchell Adds New Resource Center for the Arts --x Temporarily oblivious to the snowy beauty outside, a small group American history class discusses their nation's past.

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Mitchell sophomores and juniors using study research and conference facilities fill the social science resource center, World History Election Scrutiny Interests Students For one week preceding the nationwide elections on November 5, Mitchell world history students d.elved into the mechanics of campaign and election proce- dures. Regular classes were suspended for the week, and students signed up for discussion groups in which lively debates over candidates and issues occurred. Assemblies in which local candidates for United States representative and United States senator pre- sented their views and allowed themselves to be ques- tioned by the students were another vital aspect on election-week studies. Independent study projects were also important to the world history curriculum. Each student planned, in conference with his history teacher, a project each quarter on almost any topic relating to history. In order to enable students to become knowledge- able about a few topics of interest to them, projects were allowed broad application. Projects took form in comparison map studies, research papers, original plays and other creative writings, models and diagrams, slide presentations, and panels and symposiums. At her post as paraprofessional Mrs. Betty Nielsen replaces books.