Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Senior Steve Dean, attired in Senior election campaign signs, discusses a difficult physics problem with teacher Mr. T. J. Barnes. Physics was a course offered to students who had token first year chemistry and were majoring in math. Junior Frank Rogers tests for an un- known metal in his advanced chemistry class. Junior Sharilyn Miller and sophomore Teresa Martin test for hydrogen in first year chemistry. Freshman Nancy Stott aids Mr. Robert Cooksey in preparing to observe pond organisms. 27

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Science Department adds advanced chemistry This year an additional year of chemistry was offered in order that graduates would be better prepared for chemistry in college. For the col- lege-bound students this made four years of sci- ence available. Advanced chemistry students were able to do many more laboratory experi- ments and were also able to cover more topics than first year chemistry students. In advanced chemistry, the use of the transition elements was covered as well as recovery and refining from their ores. A study was also made of different families of organic compounds. General science students learned about liv- ing plants and animals in a more limited fashion while biology students gained a foundation for further science study by observation and study for many plants end animals. In the second se- mester dissection of frogs and pigs was a major part of study. First year chemistry students spent much of their time in the laboratory as well as stressing the atomic and the electronic theories. Physics involved many problems of practical application along with some laboratory work. Senior physics students, Linda Martin and Ed Pitkin discover that balancing a meter stick on scales is not easy. Experi- ments were done in Mr. T. J. Barnes ' physics classes. Fetal pigs and frogs were among the ani- mals dissected in Mr. Ronald White ' s biolo- gy classes this year. Sophomore Craig Amos and freshmen Chris Fisher and Sandy Coy examine the in- ternal organs of the fetal pig they have dissected in their eighth period biology class. 26

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Math Department enrollment 54%; drop of 2.4% It ' s been three years and I just don ' t remember! Senior math students Martha Graham and Becky Swope confer on the solution to a review Inter- po lation from second year al- gebra. Do you add or subtract the 35? senior Martha Graham quizzes senior classmate Vonda Townsend. Senior moth stu- dents reviewed and advanced their study of previous math courses the first semester. Then pupils began o study of cal- culus and analytic geometry. inNkmi 28