Walter Hines Page High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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MR. DAVID T. SHARP Biology MR. DONALD STOWE Biology Science department challenges students ter, energy, force, motion, heat, sound electricity, and electronics. Certain problems were set up for nine groups of students to experiment and present to the class. Milligrams, mixtures, atoms, valences, formulas, and hydro-carbons were familiar terms learned by the chemistry students under the direction of Mr. Harold Evans. With the exception of burns and broken equipment, the “chemists” benefited by doing actual experiments in the lab. Inorganic chemistry such as water and its elements, element families, or- ij ganization of chemistry, and a unit on organic chem- Lee Carr’s resignation is a direct contrast to Don Brooks’ curiosity about this experiment in Mr. Deans’ physics class, (above) Have you read the book How to Skin a Cat, by Muff Caffey, and Lisa Owings? (below) 15

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MR. HAROLD M. EVANS Chemistry Algebra MISS BEVERLY SEAWELL Biology Girls’ Physical Education Variety of courses provided by the The science department of Page High School of¬ fered biology, chemistry, physics, and advanced biology this year. To students interested in science, these classes helped create enthusiasm and interests that coincided with their study in a certain field. Students were encouraged to participate in the an¬ nual Science Fair; however, to avoid having medio¬ cre projects from less interested students, partici¬ pation was not mandatory. In Mr. Sharp’s, Mr. Stowe’s, and Miss Seawell’s sophomore biology classes, the students pursued the scientific study and relations of living things; plant, animal, and human life. The honors class went into a more detailed study of the above units under Mr. Sharp. Cats cats cats and more cats! During the first semester of Mr. Sharp ' s advanced biology class, the cat was given a thorough study. Plants, heredity, human body, bacteriology, diseases, and an econlogual study of forestry around Page were taken up. These units were primarily the students’ choice, this being the first year this course has been offered and the program had not been organized. In order to have more class participation, small groups taught the class. The main purpose in physics was to present the subject with a directness and simplicity so that all students would achieve a general understanding. Mr. Deans attempted to instill in his students a thorough conception of physics by explaining mat- Proving Charles Law, Robert Merritt measures temperature in Mr. Evans’ chemistry class. That amoeba just won’t stand still.” Jimmy Dagenhart trys to get a microscopic view. 14

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Language department offers Latinum, “Habla ud. espanol? “Latinam dicitis?” “Parlez-vous franjais?” Foreign languages are becoming increa¬ singly important as our world grows smal¬ ler and smaller. Page has attempted from its first year to meet this need of linguistic knowledge by offering Latin, Spanish, and French to its students. The language classes have added much gaiety and variety to the curriculum, as well as meeting the needs of college-hound students. The Latin courses, taught by Mrs. Rosa¬ lind Brooks and Mrs. Marietta Allen were not only classes in grammar, but historv courses. The geography of Rome, the stories about famous mythological characters, the heroes of the days of the Empire, the life of the Roman people, all were revealed as the Latin students translated the stories in their textbooks. The importance of Latin can not During registration, Charles Gruehn patiently awaits to be placed in one of Mrs. Fredrickson’s Spanish classes. MRS. MARIETTA S. ALLEN Latin MISS RUTH A. BRILES French Charles Wilson shows pictures of the old Roman way of life to Mrs. Allen’s Latin class. 16