Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Peggy Champlin adjusts the focus as she studies a pre- pared slide of cheek cells un- der a microscope during one of Miss Rose Marie Wood- small ' s biology classes. Science Department Mr. Robey, physics teacher, watches as Mike Sweany, Max Tyrrell, David Bray and Gary Morgan perform on experiment of the coefficient of linear ex- pansion and the heat of vapor- ization. Freshman Diana Miles puts some green underwater plants In the aquarium in Mr. Robert Cooksey ' s general science class room. 25

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M ' =- K ' Juniors Sharon Wratten and Susie Williams work on an exper ment testing the reaction of sulfur when heat is applied to it. Junior Tom Hunt adds a sulfur c ompound to his test tube during Mr. T. J. Barnes eighth period chemistry class. New chemistry, physics lab equipment added to Students having chemistry and physics were the first to use the new equipment purchased for the science department. An entirely new lab was in- stalled during the summer. For the first time sophomores who had taken bi- ology their freshman year were allowed to take chemistry if they had maintained a B average in biology. Mr. Leonard Robey, a new teacher at MHS, guided physics students in gaining a basic knowl- edge of the mysteries of the universe. General science and biology classes kept small animals and fish which they observed during the year. Miss Woodsmall ' s students had white mice and hamsters while there were tropical fish in Mr. Cooksey ' s general science room. Mr. Cooksey ' s second hour general science class became interested in smoking and performed an experiment to find its effect upon the body. Using a beaker as a substitute for the lungs they could observe how the smoker inhales large amounts of smoke and how much nicotine is produced from just one cigarette. Another biology teacher, Mr. J. B. Brown, joined the science department faculty. As in past years bi- ology classes spent time dissecting worms, cray- fish, grasshoppers, frogs, and fetal pigs.

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Seven courses offered; 59% of MHS students Junior John Rusie glues together the four-sided pyramid he made in Mr. Wendall Hurst ' s eighth period solid geometry class. General math, first and second year algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, and senior math mode up the math courses from which MHS students could choose. Realizing the importance of math in future education or occupation, approxi- mately 59% of the students in MHS included some phase of math in their schedule this last year. Plane geometry students studied theorems and assumptions and put their knowledge of the the- orems to work by solving problems. The object of the course was to help students in logical thinking for use in every day life. Learning to work with equations and graphs was the goal for first year algebra students while second year students concentrated on furthering their knowledge of this and adding logarithms and pro- gressions. Solid geometry students constructed three di- mensional figures after learning the basics through text book study. Senior math, the highest math course offered at MHS, had a review of algebra as well as studying analytic geometry and set notation. Also included in their study were inductive mathematics, determi- nants, and inequalities. Karen Broyer, senior math student, explains a graph equation she put on the board in Mr. Wendall Hurst ' s first period class. « l.,.,...,LM.di i . Ti 1 1 n, liuj 26