North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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New and harder materials for math The Math Department, headed by Mr. Robert Lovell, was enlarged with the addition of Mr. David Bierbaum full time, since the number of math classes increased from 28 to 31. Advanced algebra, trigonometry and geom- etry have been offered since North Side ' s first year. Through the years, six additional classes were added, ranging from basic math, for students with computational problems, to advanced math, which is an introduction to calculus. Analytic geometry was for college- bound students, while survey of math and fundamental courses in geometry and al- gebra were less rigorous. Introduced this year was a computer math class. Four computer terminals were installed to help teach the programming language and how to write and run computer programs. Mr. Bierbaum ' s geometry class discusses the number of sides there are to a geometric design. Sophomores Bob Allison and Nancy Ashley do a little explaining on the board in Mr. Hey ' s math class.

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These students listen intently as Mr. Feller tells the Salem witch Sociology can be very interesting as you can see by Mr. Eldrige and his class trials. Mr. Henderson shows Ed Claymiller a geographic map in his government class. Social Studies 21

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Mr. Lewis ' chemistry class works on an experiment dealing with metals and nonmetals Physics and Chemistry oldest subjects The Science Department had a wide variety of courses. Physics and chemistry have been taught all of North ' s 50 years, but physical geography and botany, which were taught a half century ago, are no longer offered be- cause the interest in them has declined. Biol- ogy was dropped since North no longer has freshmen as it did in 1927; but, since then, advanced biology has been added. Presently the curriculum includes physical science, en- vironmental conservation, advanced science, ECCP block, and earth science. The physics class sizes were smaller than last year. Earth science and physical science, a less pressing physics type class, increased in class size. Mr. Orvill Schlatter, who has been teaching only in the Social Studies depart- ment, taught physical science because of the increase of interest in these classes. Juniors Cindy Huhn and Tiia Tomusk look for organisms through the microsope in Mr. Slavens ' advanced biology class. Mr Rice ' s physics class discusses the layout of the school auditorium on the overhead projector.