St Ladislaus High School - Torch Yearbook (Hamtramck, MI)

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Mathematics COMPLEX FRACTIONS preoccupied Advanced Algebra students, Gerald Frederick and Jacqueline Fedak. While Gerald worked the problem on the board, Jacqueline observed and checked it agoinst the text. ON CONSTRUCTING A FIGURE for a geo- metric theorem, Arthur Pieper paused for further directions from John Babiarz, and Geraldine Gadzinski EXPLAINING A DIVISION PROBLEM in Algebra I, Kenneth Burzynski stopped to verify the last part of the solution as Patricia Combs, Gregory Gargulenski and Carol Rosochacki inspected the work. PERSONAL CASH ACCOUNTS will prove valuable in maintaining a budget; there- fore, Geraldine Witkowski, Sophie Konc- zak and Cynthia Kolodziejczyk learned the technique during General Math. 19

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Math Made Us Think, Analyze The mathematics program presented us with rewarding opportunities to develop our analytical thinking. We met our first challenge in Algebra I. During that year we were constantly drilled until we absorbed the fundamental principles. We also studied such operations as factoring and solving equations. With these principles rooted deeply in our minds, we proceeded to Algebra II. In this course, we met logarithms which proved an obstacle to many of us. We also studied problems dealing with linear and quadratic functions and their graphs. Next came a subject which every math student enjoyed, Plane Geometry. Instead of numbers, we used points, lines, arcs and circles in our problems. And will we ever forget the Pythagorean theorem which each of us had to explain individually at the blackboard? Utilizing the principles of Plane Geometry, we swung head on into Solid Geometry. We found it more complicated but more interesting. Work- ing with volumes and surface areas of geometric figures, such as tetrahedrons, pyramids, cones, parallelepipeds and spheres was a great challenge to most of us. Thirteen of us were daring enough to tackle Trigonom- etry. We were taught trigonometric functions and studied their general properties, graphs and relationships. This course ran one semester, followed by a second semester of modern mathematics. In the latter we learned new concepts of math and were introduced to such items as sets, unions, determinants and boolean algebra. SLIDE RULE OPERATORS made speedy calculations. Gerald Davis and Practice built facility in multiplying, dividing, squaring, cubing and extract- Marlene Kolodziepczyk tried a problem in multiplication on the model ing square and cube root, instrument while Dorothy Kosnik verified their findings on a regular one. 18

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To Speak, Write. listen and interpret was the goal of our English and journalism classes. In our treshman year we learned the mechanics of writing and speech. The monotony of the drill work was broken by a study of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. We read it, listened to the recordings and interpreted it. lhe sophomore year was a relief from the mechanics as we tried for fluency in writing, lhen, there were panel discussions and forums, lhe symposium on ben Hur rated first place. Julius Caesar ran a close second in popularity with the sophs. Parliamentary procedure and Green Pastures will remain a landmark in our junior memories. As seniors we struggled through term papers, demonstration speeches and Macbeth. We proved our writing ability by publishing ten issues of the Scroll and the yearbook, The Torch. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost de- manded various resources of English II students, (clockwise) Marlene Jaroma, Kenneth Stockfish, Diane Podkowa, Raymond Mandry and Robert Stuckey. 20