Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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'Tl .f-.ww ,M- '1 fl Elm. ,, - s Q .M -St' it . . physical scientists Granddaddy of the sciences, physics, the science of energy and its transformations, is of key impor- tance to students who are making science their life work whether they are going to be biologists, or doctors, or engineers. Newton and Galileo were physicists, others who have explored the fields of science have based their knowledge partly on the fundamentals of physics. With the world in chaotic conflict, the field of chemistry is being explored, exploited, and expanded, for these two sciences will no doubt be determining factors in the outcome of the war. Ben Kittagawa, left is determining the pull re- quired to keep a rotating body in the path of a circle by a centripetal force apparatus. Specks are not very big, but they have to be measured. John Nlattimoe, in the circle, could do it with the micro- scope comparator, because it is an instrument made especially to be used in measuring very small di- mensions. John lvlattimoe may measure specks, but Allan Colt, below, is making measurements for an experiment in a qualitative chemistry laboratory.

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transfer courses . . . When the three R's get to college, readin' becomes literature, 'ritin' is mostly English and journalism, and 'rithmetic turns into mathematics, This is where Transfer courses come in. Those who plan to go on to universities or tour-year colleges may complete the lower division curriculum ot sixty-tour hours at Sacramento Junior Col- lege: two semester hours of physical education, two semester hours in the study ot United States Constitution, including the study at American institutions and ideals, six semester hours in English lA-B, Subject A, English lX, or Public Speaking lA-B, completion ot the required course in orientation, and completion of lower division requirements ot the college or university to which the student plans to transfer. The science courses are among the most important in the Transfer group, Quentin Tomich in the picture below really isn't performing a tonsillectomy on a poor little cat, he is just dissecting its muscles. The bony little creature at the extreme right gazing on the dissection is watching to see exactly what once happened to it. General Zoology is the introduction to tacts and principles ot animal biology with special reference to structure, functions, heredity, and evolution of animals, Pre- medical, predental, Zoology, and Biology majors all take Zoology and the other natural sciences in preparation tor their intended protessions.

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life scientists . While halt ot the science department works and experiments with intricate mechanical opparatus, the other halt, the natural science department, takes nature to pieces with a microscope and scalpel. The poor Protista will have no secrets when Jacqueline Corker finishes her micro- scopic examination in the class of biology. ln the lower lett Quentin Tomich does a constructive job on one of the watertowls found along the Sacramento River. While the work done by this particular student is under the auspices of the National Youth Administration tor the Junior College Museum, it is nevertheless a perfect lesson in bird anatomy, paralleling his work in Zoology. He is making o collection of birds found in the Sacramento Valley. Gathered around a table full at pine cones, needles, and seeds is o class in popular batany taught by Dr. Joseph Dowdell. While in Botany lA and lB the more technical aspects ot plant lite are taught, this course, Botany lO, teaches students those things about plant lite which they will be most likely to use while and after going to college, such as the identification ot most common shrubs, trees, and 'flowering plants.