Yorktown High School - Episode Yearbook (Yorktown, IN)

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Jin1 Reed and Bob Cline find the study of the human body easier when they have the use of Elmer, the biology model, In science class girls shriek excitedly as they disect grasshoppers. Enthusiasm reigns as stu- dents learn the principles of nature. To the English student the Spanish class is a room of indistinguishable chatter that is under- standable only to the beginning Spanish students. After learning Spanish, girls have an oppor- tunity to learn the art of cooking. In the home- malcing rooms sounds of frying foods and of hum- ming sewing machines dominate the world of noises. Dale Broadwater, Keith Thornburg, David Landrey, and Instructor Robert Smith work with the wood lathe in shop class. Spanish student Barbara Boyle writes In the spring it is good weather. It is not very cold, as Bill Mudd gazes in mock disbelief. 'K I Q S , .3 , 1 f. Preparing tried potatoes is Penny Armstrong's task in home econom- ics class. Physics students Bod Wade and Farrel Stout test the pressure of gas. 13

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WHAT IS OUR SCHOOL? WRAP f ll , All -lfglef l Steve Bowers watches Mike Strother work with a forty-tive degree angle in drafting class. '78 Z4 can Jack Neal and Fred Williams count the drops of hydrochloric acid in preparing hydrogen for chemistry class. 12 In drafting classes plastic rulers and right triangles snap against high desks While students scratch pencils and pens across paper. Meanwhile, in chemistry class, young chemists com- plete experiments when effervescing acids deteriorate metals. Shouts of joy and pain come from the gymnasium as physical education students play games and practice calisthenics. Sophomores exhibit skill i d k n eep nee bends, one of the calisthenics used in physical education.

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we 1 I ' Larry Lennis and Phil Reed use the hlstory facihtles for ex tensxve research As students enter the domam of the hlstory teacher, they respond vuth startled looks to strange soundlng names These students, whlle dolng re search for hlstory asslgnments, learn the compllcated prlnclples of govern ment They learn about the dlscovery of the new world and the development of prlnclples of democracy Th1S helps them to reallze the type of c1t1zens they should be Worklng wlth the history teachers to create better c1t1zens of tomorrow is Mrs Ellen Povalac, guldance dlrector, who advlses students on matters of fu ture occupatlons Carolyn Frazier explams a chart illustrating our nations place ln the world to a history class ---nuii Measurmg the wave lengths of sound are physlcs students Tom Thomas Tom Parkin son and Bill Mudd SZ-N.,-1 14 Denwdl-G-0114 f Owjw wonto 1:5- 5 ,X L . Y. . . . . . 1 K ' w . . . . ' X . v ' .- , . 5 . , 0 r . a 1. 1 ' 4 'W' Q. In . ..-1.1.4 JFK' X., - vv .7 l , Y .av , , -A ! . : ' A' .',,v sf 'bf . 6, xii- 1 Q, .-