Pen Argyl Area High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Pen Argyl, PA)

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RIGHT: Bambi Hartman and Elizabeth Capwell are using the S.R.A. reading laboratory. This is an indi- vidual approach to teach- in reading as each student prigresses at his own rate. BELOW: Miss Smith's 9th 'lzfkw grade literature class brings life to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island . As students strive for perfection English Is Put to Use Sometimes during the day every student absorbs knowledge from an English class, since the study of our native language is a required subject. The English department is striving toward an improved English course by purchasing new textbooks for vo-tech and general students of all grade levels, by beginning an advanced group of eighth graders who will eventually take Honors English, and by planning to build a paper back library so that every eager mind may satisfy its thirst for new and interesting reading material. 1 TOP: Mike Strunk, Chip Williams, Peter Free- man, and Mark Wimmer are spending a class in the library. Peter, nicknamed Sunny by his classmates, smiles because he has gum too but he didn't get caught! BOTTOM: Spotcheck on Kippy Renolds.

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f-f , 'Q Witch! -aw.. As the sun rises in the Easl S0 Begins the Day Day after day, each student goes through the ritual of bringing his body to school tsometimes the mind comes along tool squeezing between crowds of people to reach his locker, and finally reaching his destina- tion, homeroom. Solemn ceremonies of meditation and pledge to the flag precede those informative morning announcements over the intercom. Common and trite as these gestures now seem, they will be remembered at P.A.H.S. just as much as the teachers and classes. Following the bell to alert students to wake up, class- rooms begin to be filled by many conscientious, eager teenagers welcoming the knowledge which will today be poured into their brains. As leaders of the newer high school classes, the offi- cers pictured on the preceding page have the added responsibility of guiding their groups along the long and sometimes arduous road ahead.

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Wayne Fulin, Donald Zaleski, Elwood Dietz and Richard Lemley are deeply involved in a biology experiment. All Sophomores are required to take biology. While students struggle with basic concepts Science Marches On From seventh grade life science to twelfth grade physics, busy scientific minds are discovering the basic laboratory techniques used by every great atomic phy- sicist and bacteriologist. However, there are some stu- dents who never seem to comprehend a basic law of matter: glass breaks. During practically every lab peri- od can be heard the familiar crash of test tubes, beak- ers, and graduated cylinders. Mr. Walter Emery, a new teacher of life science, has entered the classrooms of P.A.H.S. and bravely faced the job of teaching groups of bright, little seventh graders, who love to try new things on their own. Many thanks to him and all the other science teachers, who have kept the labs under control and have pre- vented our school from being blown up by some Green Knight monsters. .. yt. 'Q 3. i 1 'K t l Better use of facilities, this year, enabled 7th grade students to gain experience in David Mann and Lance jackson work out details for a the laboratory. Here, Mr. Emery's class tests blood types. chemistry experiment, This past year more students 1863 took chemistry than ever before.