Belleville Township West High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Paul Meyer prepared a titration in a chemistry lab experiment. Video tapes were important tools for science education. 8haun McGuire and Carl Hose learned that making careful observations was a vital part of every physics experiment. Natural and Physical Sciences 21

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Science courses showed us the universe in a different light The Natural Science Department, headed by Mr. A1 Schuessler, and the Physical Science Depart¬ ment under the direction of Mr. F.B. Allen offered a variety of courses, both in fundamentals and in advanced work. Activities in natural science classes included dissection of worms, frogs, and cats. Students in anatomy class grew cultures of bacteria. Physical science classes made soap, did titrations, and conducted experiments to prove the laws of Newton and Ampere. Patti Cange, Lisa Barkowski, and Michele Bray enjoy a rare break from note taking in anatomy class. Mike Baltz concentrates as he prepares to Inoculate a petri dish with bacteria from an agar slant. 20 Natural and Physical Sciences

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Business courses provided experience for our futures For the first time, this year students were given the opportunity to take a course in Computer Programming-Cobol. Before taking the course, they had to have completed Introduction to Data Processing, a one-semester course. Cobol students learned to write assigned programs, to enter the programs on an Apple II Plus Computer with Microsoft Cobol, and to save their programs on a floppy disk. Mrs. Sandra Tinney taught Cobol for the Business Education Depart¬ ment, which was headed by Mr. Howard Belcher. Laura Bauder learned that figuring taxes was a big part of her first-year accounting class. Charlene Coll learned how to transcribe a dictated John Shipley used an adding machine to figure out accounting letter during her shorthand class instruction. problems in his General Business class. 22 Business Education