South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Frogs, flagella, acids, and acceleration confronted scientists this year as they prepared to meet a world of sputniks, astronauts, and other ever-increasing technical advancements. Dissecting worms and crayfish and enduring the smell of formaldehyde, biology students expanded their science to include a study of the effects of radiation on rats, corn, bean plants, and geraniums. The microscope opened up a whole new world for botanists. Many are the hours students worked with one eye on the micro- scope, the other on drawings of leaves as the microscope re- vealed them. With two classes using a new course designed by the Physi- cal Science Study Committee, physics students completed prob- lem sets, labored over theories in experiments, and attempted to understand vector quantities, Hooke's Law, and the refrac- tion of light. This year's seniors saw quite a change in the chemistry laboratory. Old equipment removed, the lab was completely re- furnished to allow more exact experiments in quantitative and qualitative analysis. Using the new equipment during study periods, lunch periods, and after-school hours, busy seniors struggled to finish identification of unknown salts. Collecting valuable data are industrious physics students Tom Wooding, Sam Carter, Karen Ann Walker, Judy MacGiehan, and Sharyan Yerger. 'Scientists' Explore Radioactivity, Hooke's Law, Salts The c-inverted scale increases speed in multiplication, Mr. Richard Bussard explains to two interested Archers, Victor Churchward and Tom Shine, as they practice problems on the slide rule. 24

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Saturnalia, Newscasts, Foreign Names Brighten Languages The romance of a country's history and the beauty and structure of its people's language are presented to students in the Latin, French, and Spanish courses. Following recorded newscasts at increasing speeds, French and Spanish students gain stronger familiarity with the foreign tongue. Short dramatizations and light songs help to develop conversational skills and a characteristic accent, as well as to provide authentic historical data. Adopting French or Spanish names, pupils further simulate the atmosphere of their elected country. In addition to translating works of Caesar, Pliny, Vergil, and Cicero, Latin students celebrate Saturnalia, Roman Christ- mas, with carols and thus vary a year filled with declensions, conjugations, and irregular verbs. La France est un pays interessant, pronounces Jim Harrold as Joan Van Osdale locates Paris on a French map. (are to help us with your language? ask barbie Rea. Paul Boergert, and Ken Clauser of Julius Caesar as they ponder ovei Latin translations. Garbed to suit their studies. Mary Robles and Jeff Roth enjoy a Spanish comic book 23

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Attempting an experiment in organic chemistry. Sally Frank- lin prepares a complex carbon compound with a reflux con- denser.