Andrew Warde High School - Flame Yearbook (Fairfield, CT)

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STUDENTS USE DIFFERENT BOOKLETS TO IM- PROVE THEIR SKILL IN SPEED READING. DR. EVANS OF E.S.T.P. EXPLAINS BASIC f?J THEORIES OF ASTROPHYSICS. SPEED READING MAKES STUDYING EASIER. Read a three-hundred page book in an evening, with full comprehension? Read and write down a line of six numbers observed for less than a second? Sounds impossible, but actually each of these feats is able to be accomplished by virtually every student who takes advantage of the speed reading course offered at Warde. The reading laboratory offers to students many practical facilities. The flashmeter projects sentences and series of numbers on a screen and the student jots on a piece of paper, without looking down, exactly what he has seen. As the number of words and figures is increased, the pupil's eye span en- larges. With a rate set according to different word speeds per minute, the speed-reader machine auto- matically reels off a filmed story. As the course proceeds and student comprehension increases, the rate of the machine is advanced. Besides using ma- chines, pupils read short stories and time themselves for speed and comprehension. The benefits of this course are revealed in college and in all vocations, where innumerable reports and books can be read in a short time. E.S.T.P. PROVIDES ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC INSIGHT. Pound in a nail with mercury? Shatter a fresh carnation? Sounds impossible, but actually experi- ments such as these with liquid air occurred every week at E.S.T.P. meetings. E.S.T.P. is a most revolutionary program, which was instituted in Fairfield two years ago. This Engineer-Scientisb Teacher Program offers interested students an op- portunity to extend their scientific knowledge 'be- yond the scope of a standard high school course. The sessions are conducted by men and women whose professions include medicine, physics, chem- istry, and industry. The E.S.T.P. students, who were enrolled in any of five subject areas-biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, astrophysics, and electrical en- gineering-engaged in exciting projects such as studies of ozone and its relation to smog, organic and infrared chemistry, and subsonic and super- sonic flow, muscle and nerve function, and nuclear reactions. E.S.T.P. pupils also made visits to the United Illuminating Building and to the bacteriolo- gy labs at the local hospitals. Thus, through a series of selective lectures and demonstrations, the students become acquainted with scientists and their professions, and are often encouraged to further -their scientific education. MIX IN A LITTLE ELECTRICITY, SAYS MR. BLAIR OF E.S.T.P., BUT HANDLE WITH CARE! 94

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