Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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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.

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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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i . general cultural courses A cultured person is one who knows everything obout something ond something obout everything. Noturolly the foregoing is o very brood stotement, ond no one could ever ottoin thot degree of culture, but it is the purpose ot colleges ond universities throughout the world to help the younger generotion in its seorch for everything obout something ond something obout everything, Although most people ore busy molcing o living, more ond more they ore becoming conscious thot money isn't lite, even it it is o greet convenience, There ore o tew who con study, enjoy, ond under- stond music, ort, dromci, the three subiec ts most otten identitied with culture, ond do nothing else. Most people, however, ore leorning to combine the ocquiring ot on unclerstonding ot the finer things ot lite with moking o living. Tootin' the tooter 'for Tulley, octing ci port in o ploy, ond pointing o pretty picture ore woys by which students con leorn the principles behind eoch ot these orts, ot the some time preparing them tor possible vocotions. Mony students motoring in music plon to tecich it privotely or in schools, others olreody hove iobs in orchestros, Costume designing, commerciol illustrotion, ond odvertising cire only o tew of the fields into which generol culture mojors moy enter. In the picture obove o closs in tigure drciwing is shown ot work. John Olbrich, ploying the piccolo, ond Richord Boker, blowing o boss tube, ore members ot the Joysee Bond. Joyne Brown ond Annette Colkins ore pictured ot o piono in o group piono instruction closs.