Northrop High School - Bear Tracks Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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1) Hsw A O, C h ?F Senior Kenny Lane watches as Mr. Lee Co- chard grades his test photo by Jeff DeVille Sophomores Dave Shuler and Greg Owens try to solve a Rubik ' s Cube in Geometry class. photo by Kim Carson Junior Kim Wright works on an Algebra problem in class. photo by Charlotte Ather- ton 14 — Math

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Junior Charlene Tesch is hard at work during her English class, reading stories of excite- ment and adventure. — Photo byC. Atherton English — 13

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Math Makes It All Add Up Math can make it all add up. And it can make it add up so most of us are able to get the right total most of the time. But math is more m Northrop than the basics. In addition to the program that everyone knows about, there are special and innovative classes being offered to the Bruin Students. Thirty-five freshmen this year have survived Honors Algebra 1 2. This class was initiated this year and is highly competitive and accelerated. The same topics are covered in this class as in the regular Algebra 1 2 but in more depth and with a faster pace. Mrs. Jane Kim- mel, the teacher of this class said, I ' m really pleased with what they ' ve accom- plished. They don ' t give up easily. They ' ve come up with some neat solu- tions to problems. Steve Brink, freshman, feels that the class IS a challenging one. It ' s hard. he said. You gotta study Tom Beerbower, freshman, agreed. I have to work to un- derstand It. He added, It ' s fun and like working things out. The computer programming classes proved to be the most popular classes taken. Young people are realizing that they need to have a computer back- ground, said Mr. Bob Trammel, math department head. 156 students are enrolled. In future years Mr. Trammel feels that there will be a problem with space because of in- creasing enrollment. He calls this the ripple effect. Mr. Al Rupp, who teaches the class, gave several reasons for the popularity of this class. Students who are going to college m the math and science fields will be required to use the computer , , . many new jobs are opening in the field. It only makes sense that . . more stu- dents want to prepare themselves. He added, The computer is becoming more and more a part of our lives. Mr. Art Schwab helps students with problems at the board. photo by Charlotte Atherton Sophomore Mark Gustin works with the Ap- ple system in Computer Programming., ' photo by Charlotte Atherton Freshman Melissa Dietrich works on an alge- bra assignment, photo by A. Johnson Math — 15