Grosse Pointe High School - View Pointe Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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The Challenge of SCIENCE A Year of Progress — A Year of Promise The year 1961-62 is a year which will be re- membered for many reasons. Science made his- tory and headlines by sending a man up into space. New Horizons have been opened to the generation of today. We are faced with a challenge we have never had before. What the scientists have accomplished has merely scratched the surface. It is up to us, the present generation, to meet the challenge and to look beneath the surface, to open up new horizons and pave the way for further progress. The Grosse Pointe High School science de- partment far surpassed that of many others. It has the equipment and the instructors. Students who participate have the desire to improve, experiment and try to make the world a better place in which to live. Career possibilities in science are endless. Grosse Pointe High School is prepared to meet this challenge. Now according to the book . . . Dale Novak acts as supervisor, natu- rally, while the girls, Bev Robinson and Jackie Lang do the work of dis- secting a frog in biology. 10 With careful analysis and precise measurement, Grosse Pointe chemistry students learn the composition of scientific principles. Steve Landers, Jim Standish, Greg Reynolds and Jim Large learn the skills of experimentation.

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Sports announcing for all local basketball games is a second interest for Dr. Stanley Cook, head of the English department. Mr. Ray Watling, coordinator of drivers ' training, edits films and slides in his home workshop. AfiS t»l? t.l ■ .-. ' Hi III If III III i ' »|SK!S 9 ww- WB 1 Mr. Lewis Gray, head of the Indu.strial Arts department, with daughter, Cheryl, exhibit a walleyed pike caught in East Twin Lake at Lewiston, Michigan. Cultivating his flower beds keeps Mr. Frank Banach, head of the physical education department, physically fit.

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(S» - Chemistry isn ' t just all mixing of chemicals as Charley Toepel finds out. Algebra and basic math are needed to solve difficult chemical equations. The many intricasies of science pre- vail to their fullest extent. Bob Hud- son, Al Hyer, and Gregor McGregor use the optical lever in calculating Young ' s Modulus. If we pull on the chalk, the pulleys will raise the weight up to here, Joe Snyder seems to be telling Mark Marsh.