Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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Gera|d Gaynor Mary Jane Hartman Mary Hawkins Lona Lendsey Jack Rossetter O rville Sullivan — - Marg aret S ynnerdahl John Van Dyke Robert Woodruff The Mathematics Department provides varied courses covering fundamental through advanced problems. One unit of Algebra or General Mathematics is re- guired of every student for graduation from high school. Among the courses offered are Plane Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Solid Geometry, Trigonometry, College Algebra, and Shop Mathematics. Accelerated Mathematics includes the study of Plane and Solid Geometry durin the Sophomore year, and College Algebr and Trigonometry during the Junior year. In his Senior year an accelerated student may study more College Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and the Calculus. Spherical triangles are easily explained by Jean Ure and Dave Tregay. I I Q)

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Gertrude Anthony, Head Iva Rae Bevins Harvey Chandler Paul Doolittle Robert Ebel James Elander Olie part men t Op Vf]atliematic3 exes the Advanced Mathematics class

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Jhe J loiocjicciiSc science Be, pa rtmerit. Joseph McMena min, Head H. Keith Cady Emada Ross Aeby Charlotte Grant Griswold Chester Hansen Paul Hawk A. I. Means J. Russell Storey Margaret McKibben The increasing importance of scientific developments in the world today makes the Physical Science Department a center of enthusiastic training for the work of to¬ morrow. The Department offers Chemistry, Everyday Chemistry, and Physics to Juniors and Seniors and Physiography to Sopho¬ mores, Juniors, and Seniors. Louis S hrode The Chemistry course stresses the study of nuclear energy, while Everyday Chem¬ istry gives a common approach to chem¬ ical principles. Physics covers the basic re¬ lationships of the objects in the world around us, and in Physiography the student analyzes maps and weather conditions. . Studies rjCiuina wincj a n 13 mj Transplanting ferns proves very interesting to Durette Matchett and Ruth Shafer.