Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Science instructors, left to right: M. B. Brennemen, Harold N. Money, and H. B. Woodroffc. Top: Mary Ellen Hankins and Arline Ha- denfeldt in Mr. Voris' I0B biology class. Above: Conducting an experiment in Mr. Brenneman's I IB physics class are. left to right: Glen Gierke. Audrey Teich, Ruth Giese, and Joo Terry. SCIENCES Everyone is bom with the right to live and the right to survive in the environment in which he has been born. Through the past few years scientists have been working incessantly to as- sure everyone his chance to live. New drugs are needed and new cures must be found from the groundwork laid by the scientists of today. Those who must pick up where today's chem- ists are leaving off are receiving their basic training in high school chemistry and science classes of the present time. It will be these students who are tomorrow's doctors, nurses, chemists, and other scientists. College pre- paratory chemistry is offered to those plan- ning to further their education after high school, while applied chemistry is also offered but does not require as much math back- ground as the college prep class does. As a prerequisite to the college prep chem- istry class, college prep physics must be elected. The value of knowing the chemistry and physics formulae well has been realized by the future doctors, nurses, chemical engineers, flight surgeons, and navigators, and will be 24

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CADET CLASSIFICATION VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE After graduation, what? With chances of the boys attending college at a minimum and the excess of war jobs open to graduating girls, the occupational trainees strive to find just where in the 29,000 occupations open to them, they can best fit. The 10th grade occupations classes, a follow-through from the ninth grade so- cial science course, learn how man makes his living by viewing the different occupa- tions and then analyzing a particular one. In the boys' classes, Mr. Calvert, director of vocational guidance, acquaints the boys with the similarity of the jobs in the service to lifetime vocations. Of the 600 army oc- cupations, about 440 of them can be trans- Members of Mitt Cotter's 10B occu- potions class are, left to right: Marcia Goldman, Bernice Koth, Patricia Dough- erty. Eloise Hoskins, and Jean Stutt. ferred to the lifetime vocations of civilian life. Approx- imately 200 of the Navy's 400 occupations are trans- ferable to civilian life. The right man for the right job at the right time — the slogan of the Army and the slogan of the D.H.S. vocational guidance office. In the girls' classes, Miss Cotter, vocational guidance instructor, helps them to analyze themselves to find out just what occupation to follow. Various tests, to measure their adaptability in certain vocations, may be taken by the trainees. These tests will show if the cadet has the necessary aptitudes for carrying on the vocation successfully. In Mr. Calvert's I0B occupations class aro, left to right: Seated, Duane Stiles, Bob Dittmer, and Rob- ert Carstens; standing. Bob Potersen, Max Crane, Jack Korn, and Jerry Wolcott. 23

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Science instructors, left to right: Miss M. Rae Johns, Harvey H. Voris, Leslie C. Goss, and J. M. Hitchings. OF FLIGHT utilized by them in future education beyond high school. Now for another side of the science depart- ment — the ologies. When looking over the high school's program of studies and see- ing biology, zoology, and physiology, many of the trainees shun away, believing subjects with such names to be dull and uninteresting. But dissecting frogs and grasshoppers, learning about snakes and fish, and even learning the physical makeup of our own bodies becomes interesting. Girls entering the cadet nursing corps find such subjects particularly helpful and informative. The science of flight — aeronautics — is another subject popular with the boys. Most boys when looking forward to graduation, also look forward to the air corps and a career in aviation. The fundamentals of flight, taught at high school, will give the boys a taste of their basic training before entering the air corps. The scientist's job of improving man’s life while on earth can only be visualized, but future generations will tell the tale. Top: Working with a human-size model in Mr. Hitch- ing ' physiology class are, left to right: Janet Crissey, Gloria Carpenter, and Jim Shirk. Above: Studying the rudiments of flight in Mr. Atkins' aeronautics class are: Richard Cody, Bill Potter, James Lothringor, Ernest Hill, and Phil Mayer.