St Agnes High School - Spires Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Alice Annand and Joe Sloclcemer do fhe heavy loolcing on while Fred Lopreslo makes nifric acid. Fred Lopresio malres bromine, a consfifueni' of fear gas and of efhyl qasoline. Evidently lhe unpleasanl odor is noi' yei discernible, for Fred and Joe look comforfable enough. 30 'A' 'A' 'A' ELEMENTS, compounds, and mixlures combine lo mysfify and iascinare rhe Chemisfry class. They gasp in amazernenf as a mixrure of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide changes before Their eyes info ordinary drinking waler and sall. They discover for lhemselves fhe effecls of acids and bases on melals and, sonnefimes, on fingers. They make soap, elch glass, prepare gases, lhus acquir- ing knowledge which will prove uselul lo Them in exams and afrerwards.

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IN NATIONAL DEFENSE The science sfudenis are righ+ ouf in Ironf. In odd momenfs, befween ascerfaininq The ad- vanfages of Ihe indudion coiI and Iesfing The vibra- Iions of sound, The Physics cIass Consfrud Ieiegraphy se+s and pracrice sending and receiving messages in The Infernafional Morse Code. Sisfer CI1arIoHe fransmifs a message in lnfernaiional Morse Code I members of fhe Physics class. Ralph Heil waiches wifh inharesi as Wayne Devine charges an elecfroscope by inducfion. MATHEMATICS is so essen- Hal in many phases of indus- Iry Ioday Iha+ Sainf Agnes' offers eighf semesiers in The subiecf, inc:Iuding courses in Algebra, Plane and Solid Geornerry, and Trigonomerry. I-Iere we see Ar+ O'Leary soIving an infricaie probIem in SoIid Geomefry.

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ir i' if IN AN AGE when pracfical mechanics is playing an ever-increasing parf in our lives, youlh seelcs an undersfanding of 'rhe iundamenfal principles in The sfudy of Mechanical Drawing. AT Sainl Agnes' High fhe course consisfs of a survey of +he field of graphic ar'rs. This primary 'rraining has developed fhe falenf of a number of our graduafes, who now hold imporlanf posilions in defense planls. All find lhe course useful in solving mechanical or archi- feciural problems in everyday life. 1 D f . Richard Bur? inlls his drawing Tom Farrell fesfs his crysfal sei radio. John Schulfe builds a crvsfal radio and enioys KNX. 31