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

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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.

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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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' ' ■. « » Overpass + 3rd Floor = Math. Dept. A new and useful addition to Grosse Pointe High School was completed in early December. A third floor on the Industrial Arts Building devoted en- tirely to the Mathematics Department, and an overpass to the main building to make it more accessible were constructed during the summer and early part of the fall semester. This addition unifies the once diversified Math Depart- ment and combines seven classrooms with a seminar and counseling room to afford students with a maximum of teacher help. The new rooms facilitate calculus and analytic geometry courses, while the seminar room is open to all students desiring to expand their knowledge of mathematics in general. A large inventory of technical books is available, offering new techniques and project ideas. Although quite a trek for some students to reach in five minutes, the new addition finally provides adequate space for a department as impor- tant as the subject it teaches. i « i i ii» m iii» »M . [w w M a! nin, i liMl iii M i n nnwimijipiBn