Westmont Hilltop Senior High School - Phoenician Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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SPACE RACE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED BY SCIENCE DEPT. Supremacy in the space age will be won or lost in the high school science classrooms and laboratories of this nation. To help students prepare for life in the space age and to provide them with the scientific knowledge needed by men involved in the race for space, the Science Department offered a complete program of studies. This program consisted of the following courses: General Science, Consumer Science, Biology, Physics, Chemistry I, and Chemistry II. Student interest in the science program was revealed by incteased enrollments in all courses. During this year seventy-eight per cent of the students in grades nine through twelve was registered in one or more science courses. This represented an increase of seventeen per cent over the preceeding year. Sizable increases were noticed especially in General Science, Chemistry I, Chem- istry ll, and Physics. This increase in enrollment necessi- tated an increase in the size of the science faculty. Previously consisting of four members, the Department this year was expanded to six. 5 - xv-. v L .447 l-,', L . , ... Y K A st- 5 R. Y 8.1 'H K... fs f r v c. ie . . . . .... fu cr A. 5, ug, f ' 'Risk 5. 1' 'Chl wi' A! r :.. s.. 5bk -IA , ' ' B.. L.. Hi 'r. I w 5 , . , ,. X A., TI Ph B. MINTER M. OTT-Chemistry I and Il, Education Johnstown High School, B.S. Gettysburg College, M.A. University of Pittsburgh, Dulce University, Activities Student Council. PAUL E. URBAIN-Plane Geometry, Physics, Education Patton CPa.J High School, B.S. St. Francis College, Activities Future Teachers of America and Senior Class. GEIGER COUNTERS can even measure the minute amount of radiation which is coming from the luminous dial of Ricki Hudson's watch.

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ENGLISH STAFF DESIGNS DYNAMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM M. JOAN SNYDER fMrs.7-English 9 and IO, Education Beaverdale - Wilmore IPa.J High School, B.S. Indiana State Teachers' College, Activities Senior Play and Freshman Class. WILLIAM C. STAHL-English 9, Education Johnstown Hiah School: Pittsburgh Musical Institute, Inc., B.A. University of Pittsburgh, Activities Assembly Organist and Freshman Class. EXAMINING GRADE CHARTS, Lloyd Stebbins, Jack Sobieski, and Carol Stern determine where they stand pointwise in their tenth grade class. ,an ,f Fifi, 1 HY 4 OUTSIDE RECREATIONAL READ- ING culminates in written book reports which are housed in these ninth grade English students' cumulative folders.

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9 .04 A we HYDROGEN SULFIDE EXPERIMENT, performed by Eleanor Lieff in Chem. I class, produces interesting results but disgusting odors. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES like the Radio Club give Larry Rogers and Tom Rozmarich a chance to apply scientific knowledge. 30 SCIENCE ENROLLMENT UP SEVENTEEN PERCENT OVER PRECEEDINC5 YEAR UK lvl ,gf REPTILE FALACIES and legends about snakes in the grass are scientifically disproved in Biology class by Joe Raymond, Matt Sinberg, Joan Kelcich, and Dave Katz. ACIDITY CHECK TEST, performed by Bill Mengelson and Jack Glock in Chem. II class, determines acid content of the soil. 'U 5331 , K 9 W film: