Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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Math Muddles Minds With visions of radicals, binomials, and trinomials dancing through their heads. Algebra II students plunged into another year. Students were excited by quadratic equations and confused by logarithms, but in the end they pulled through. For Geometry students, it was proofs, proofs, and more proofs, plus a few theorems here and there. It seemed like infinity, but finally everything came out congruent. The calculators were put back into use in trigonometry class, and triggers wondered exactly how many sines and cosines their little brains could stand. They also reviewed their knowledge of Algebra II and plunged onto the inevitable-identities! 22 TOP RIGHT-An insufficient quantity of old Algebra II books forces Anna Westfall, Randy Roberts, and Brad Frost to adopt the principal of share and share alike. ABOVE-Trigonometry students Belinda Hughes, Charles Archer, Jerry Smith, Robbie Smith, Loy Cochran, Vicki Archer, and Linda Jamison speak a language all their own. Mrs. Spigner introduces a new math sentence on the board. RIGHT-Laboring over a new postulate, Stan Lawrence silently curses those Greeks in 3000 B.C. for inventing geometry.

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Fire Mrts Inspire Students Using popular music and especially songs from Broadway plays, the 17 member girls' chorus prepared concerts for school assemblies, home demonstration clubs, and the Rotary Club. At Christmas the chorus sang in the Howard County Heritage Club's holiday celebration. The highlight of the year was their participation in the Arkansas Madrigal Contest at Ouachita Baptist University in April. The first step in learning to appreciate music came with an introduction to the history of music, its origin, and the inspiration for it. Students in Mrs. Donna Daniel's music appreciation class also found that the creative sounds of today's music do not necessarily give one an appreciation for all music. Mrs. Patricia Clingan kept second and third year students busy with oils, acrylics, and pottery. Mastering the potter's wheel was quite messy, but a great deal of fun. During the year students entered their work in several art exhibits in the community. Advanced students did paintings for display at Beaird- Poulan. These paintings were photographed for display in all Beaird-Poulan plants throughout the United States. ABOVE RIGHT- Artist in solitude, leanie Hamilton lingers on an oil painting to get just the right effect. ABOVE- Getting that harmony down to perfection is no problem for Mrs. Donna Daniel as she directs Tina Boone, Terry Wilcher, Debbie Graham, Kathy Floyd, April Ware, Eva Bradford, Lisa Jamison, Cindy Cassady, Cathy Hargis, and Barbra Hawthorne. RIGHT- Inspiration for sketching comes in moments of casual conversation for Lee Autry and Angelor Coulter.

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Science is a Scream for NHS'ers To clump or not to clump —that was the question in biology's most interesting experiment of the year. A prick of the finger, two drops of blood, and the students watched to see whether their blood clumped or not. This determined their blood types. Mr. Carozza introduced amateur biologists to RNA and DNA, photosynthesis, and cell growth and reproduction. Punnett squares, genotypes and phenotypes, and garden peas made the study of heredity more realistic to them. Later in the year, biology students had a two-week VD course, and were thrilled to learn that they were going to perform major surgery on frogs. Chemistry is the only class at high school that combines science, math, and just enough Greek to make it almost (but not quite) impossible. Students in chemistry bravely put their brains (and calculators) to work on formulas for compounds, atomic weights, electron configuration, percentage composition, and chemical equations. They looked ahead to the future and learned the metric system, iike all good citizens should. BELOW-Demonstrating their reading abilities, Ricky Boler, Tommy Parks, Ray Westfall, Bert lohnson. and Kalonah McFadden get down to business in a typical biology class RICHT- Flipping through her book, Becky Nivens searchers for the definitions to biology terms BOTTOM-As an experiment, a couple of drops oi concentrated sulfuric acid goes up in smoke. Chemistry students, David Chalker Debbie Chesshir, Tony Wilson, Gaye Goodrum, and Julia Roberson gaze dubiously at the antics of their teacher, Charles Carozza.