Ottawa Hills High School - Legend Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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95 2 lik , - fl .mf-f'5M1-if ' i Ben Gregory, B.S. 1 G , H. A. Richardson A.B. . T 552 x A it Q e - 4 Dorothy Kreuter B.S. Elsie Gordon Ju , SCIENCE When the freshman enters high school, he is required to study General Science. The subject is a study of the universe and what is in it. After this course is finished the student who wishes to go to college is required to complete a year of one of the sofcalled laboratory sciences. Botany deals with plant life. It aims to give an idea of plants and plant life as a whole, their life processes and their imf portance to man. Zoology is the science of animals, their structure, habitat, life habits, and their relation to man, while Physiology is the study of the anatomy and functions of the human body. - Chemistry is a study of the elements and their compounds and how they react on one another. Ottawa has one of the inest chemistry laboratories in the city. Physics teaches about the principles of machines, of mechanics, 'of liquids, solids, gasses, light, heat, sound. mag' netism, and electricity, and some of their applications to everyday life. PHYSICAL EDUCATICN Henry Ludwick Katherine Sheehan B.S. ELEMENTARY Helen Smith Dorothy Starmer Lowell Palmer A.B. 9 'ti' Theodore Vander Plo g A.B., lVl.S. J 'i , x lljifl , n A ' 1 . ,sf ff' -' Dorothy Cryder ff' Carol Walders Page Twenty-xm-en

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Lenore Bader, A.B. William L. Fuehrer Ph.B., LL.B. Alma Seegmiller A.B. Grace Beeby Page Tirmzty-six MATHEMATICS If A loans B SBIOO at 42, for 1 year, what interest does A receive? Over inter' est, percentage, and intuitive geometry, the junior high struggles as it prepares for the mathematics of high school. Finally comes the great mystery, algebra. How big that X looks as the freshmen ponder over lengthy equations and tangles of letters and Hgures. A year of algebra is finished and after that comes the higher science, geometry. If ever a student has to think, it is in this course. Triangles, squares, and circles form a haze of lines and angles that has to be penetrated. Aftera year of geometry some stu' dents apply themselves to solid geometry' or algebra III where all their previous knowledge is enlarged by new theorems and equations. After these two courses are completed trigonometry can be taken, which is the peak of our high school mathematicfs course. LIBRARY AND OFFICE A reference library which is open to students for outside class work every period of the day and which has access to the main library is included in the school facilities and is under the direction of two librarians: Miss Mast and Miss Beebe. The school records and supplies are carefully kept by Mrs. Haight, who also presides over the outer oiiice. NC PICTURES Bernice Creaser, A.B., M.A. Helen G. Haight, Clerk Marie Carling B.S. Frederick A. Koepniclc A.B., M.A. rf . ' Ax I V- . f Jennie Van Dyke A.B. if A Clara Mast, A.B.

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Page Tlrenfy-eiyllf He ever wished that in peace the souls of those Who gave him means to study might repose.