Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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At the beginning of a study of triangles, Mr. Reuter demonstrates the altitude of a triangle to his 5th period geometry class. Mathematics Gateway to Opportunities Today a solid background in mathematics is essential to most college-bound students. Math is also needed in most technical voca¬ tions. With the business of computers becom¬ ing more and more common, there are many openings for the people trained in this field. When asked why they take so much math, Mr. Scott ' s advanced math students replied that their reason was for status.” They felt that they had more opportunities for schol¬ arships with these credits. Courses in math offered at Astoria High are algebra, geometry, business math, advan ced algebra, senior review, and trigonometry. Mathematics courses are electives in senior high. Andy Thorsness, of the advanced trigonometry class, displays the use of the slide rule by working out the cosine of an angle of a triangle. 17

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iL — L ’ ■-’il li yA ' W “ ‘Councilman’ Jennifer Adams, what is your opinion about covering Dickinson, Gary Day, John Waisanen, City Manager John McCoy, and Tapiola Pool? asks Mayor Roxanne Curry during a mock city council Linda Green, meeting in government class. Other councilmen participating are Ron Students Gain Knowledge of Past World History teacher, Mr. Moberg, in his first year at Astoria High, helps sophomores, John Kuppenbender and Jukka Perkiomaki, with their papers on the Roman Empire. “If we are to solve the many problems facing us today, we must have some knowledge of the past. Before we can pass this to others, we must first possess it. Then if we have the desire and intelligence to solve the prob¬ lems of today, the future will be richer and more mean¬ ingful, according to Miss Tolonen, chairman of the social studies department. Since the aim of the social studies department is to develop students into clear thinking adults, all courses are geared to encourage students to evaluate past events in the light of today’s happenings. Miss Rose Tolonen instructs Wipah Sae-Lee, Astoria High ' s foreign exchange student from Thailand, in the use of the view master. 16

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Man Depends upon Science In today ' s world of atomic power, man de¬ pends wholly upon science. Today ' s students have a greater variety of texts and equip¬ ment to use in building an understanding of the principles of science than ever before. At Astoria High School, students are trained to think for themselves by doing experiments, observing the results, and drawing their own conclusions. All are required to take an introductory course of biology, but the more advanced courses of chemistry and physics are optional. Dr. Powell, professor of physics at the University of Oregon, gives a lecture to the science classes on the use of the laser. Sweating out an identification test, soph¬ omore biology students examine cellular organisms under the microscope. George Hoyden takes aim with the monkey gun as Mark Edy, Penny Price, Chris Copstead and Laurie See- borg wait for the results. The monkey gun demon¬ strates to the physics class Galleo ' s theory of falling objects. 18