Air Academy High School - Vapor Trails Yearbook (USAF Academy, CO)

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Class Gains Altitude History of Air Power, a course offered to those who were interested in learning more about the planes of the past and present, was taught by Colonel Watt Hill. Col. Hill has spent many years around air power and sees it as An extremely significant force for good and evil. His objectives for the course included showing the rapid growth and development of planes throughout history as well as their significance in today's world. ln the class, students were required to write three reports, seven to eight pages long, as well as do three oral reports on famous personalities or aircraft. Hill's curriculum covered the Chinese in 4000 B.C. up to the space shuttle and future aspects of space. He covered aerodynamics of aircrafts as well as func- tions of different parts of a plane through lectures, demonstrations, and films. The history of aeronautics is taught to junior Liz Sharp by Col. Watt Hill Ctopj. Some morn- ing announcements are presented by senior Radio and TV student JoAnne Roberts Cobove rightl. While instructing Latin, Mrs. Harriett Connolly conjugates verbs with sec- ond year students Claudia Clayton and Ke- vin Wolfgang Cobovej. Sessions of the round table, given by Miss Christine Kingsolver in her AP English class, are informative to sen- iors Tonya Anderson and Edith Jacobs Crightj. 16 I Academics