Boise High School - Courier Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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Q CCMBIUICCCG AVPIRY complete and well organized Science Depart- ment is established in Boise High School. Experiments of various types are part of the course of studying in many of the Science classes. Science plays a very important part in the lives of all individ- uals, in the opinion of educat- orsgi we could not understand the world about us, or think in- telligently, or play the part all First rn-w-Charles Gill, General Science and Botany, Harry Mitchell, General Science and Botany, john Sawyer, Head of Depart- ment and Physics, Vllillis Collin, General Science and Chemistry. Serum! rmw--Richard Pomeroy, General Science, john Bauer, Agri- culture, Howard Paul, General Science, Cecil Pollard, Zoology. useful citizens should, without a fair fund of scientific knowledge. For this reason .lohn Sawyer, head of the Science Department, is said to occupy one of the most important positions in the High School. Mr. Sawyer teaches Physics. He has an A.B. degree from the University of Illinois. Botany, a study of the life of the different plant bodies, is taught by Harry lllitchell, who acquired his A.l3. degree from VVayne State Teachersl College, and Bernice Bjornson, who gained a l3.S. degree from the University of Idaho. Zoology is taught by Cecil Pollard. Mr. Pollard has received his lVI.S. degree from the University of Idaho. He has been an instructor in Boise Hi for nine years. Chemistry, which is taught by VVillis Collin, deals with the chemical composi- tions which go to make up the world, also the relation of chemicals to each other and how they combine. lylr. Coffin has acquired a B.S. degree from Penn College. Another subject is General Science, taught by Howard Paul and Richard Pom- eroy. lylr. Paul has an A.l3. degree from Nebraska Wesleyatt. Mr. Pomeroy's A.B. degree was received at the University of California. Agriculture, a study of scientific farming, is taught by John Bauer, who has his B.S. degree from the University of Idaho. lNIr. Bauer has been here four years. lylrs. Cecil Pollard and Charles Gill substituted for Miss Bjornson during her long illness the first semester. Miss Bjornson returned in excellent health. Experimenting in Mr. Safwyefs Physics Class. Page Twenty-sefven V

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Mathematics THE ancient aristocrat of the sciences, hlathematics, has been given, in Boise High School, a staff of as competent instructors as any school in the state. Headed by Seth Freer, this department has grown to be one of the largest in the school with approximately two out of First rofw-A. J. Boosinger, Algebra and Geomctryg Glen:-vieve CVC1'y' HVC StlldCl1tS CIl1'OIlCd ICOI' Dartt Algebra and Geometry, Howard Paul Algebra an Genm- X - i i etry. lS1'1'uml l'UfLUfSf'Ih Freer, Head of lleparimcnt, Algebra, Geom- the Mlbjett- Mr' Freer VYa5 ctry and Trignnometryg J. A. Burt, Algebra. graduated froln the Ulllverslty of Idaho, and also received a B.S. degree at Carlton. He has been a member of the faculty for fifteen years. Among the branches of lVIathematics taught in Boise High School are Elemen- tary Algebra, Plane Geometry, Higher Algebra, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry and Advanced Higher Algebra. Each of these is treated as a unit that goes to make up the entire subject. As a rule, only one kind of llflathematics can be taken at a time, thus requiring eight semesters to complete the course. Under hir. Freer in the lVIathematics Department are five excellent teachers. They are A. J. Boosinger, lVI.S., who comes from the University of Idaho, Howard Paul, A.B., a graduate of the Wesleyan University of Nebraskag James A. Burt, A.l3., who hails from the University of Idaho, another Gem State graduate who has a HS. degree, Bernice Hjornsong and Genevieve Dartt, who has an A.B. from the University of Idaho. Nliss Bjornson was absent when this picture was taken. Algebra is a brief, simplified method of solving apparently complicated problems by the use of literal terms substituted for unknown quantities. Geometry, taken from the Greek words the earth and to measure, comprises the third and fourth semesters. The third and perhaps most practical of the Matheriiatics courses offered in B. H. S. is Trigonometry. This is a study of the relation between the size of the angle of a triangle and the lengths of its sides. By this process the distances of stars and high peaks are measured. This is for the advanced student and is necessary in surveying. Each studeni lakes his turn at dcfnonstraiilzg a theorem. , Page Twenty-Jix

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V ,N I L CLASSES And on ' A And on they spread Like seedlings in the wind To tale root in the barren tail- V :ind grow. Eager, excited, entering dawn of youth, Boise High Schqol'a Freshmen come into their first year here. Filled with full bloom' of youth, the Seniors pass an their way to other things. Here are shown some of this year'a phases of the never-ending pro- cession across life'e stage.