Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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Shelley McIntyre, Teresa Wisner, and Malinda Henning are working hard to achieve just the right formula for their ex- periments in hopes of receiving the correct results. Betsy Brown and Linda Palumbo are busy heating glass to try to blow out a creation for chemistry class. SCIENCE INTENSIHIES PLANS The science curriculum of Auburn High School is both varied and ambitious in scope. Three science fields are offered. Biology, chemistry, and physics are the pri- mary sciences, with advanced biology, advanced chemistry, and physical science also presented to the students. Among several field trips taken by these classes was a visit by the physical science class to radio station WKJG in Fort Wayne. Jerry Cripe, Auburn High School’s top scientist, re- ceived an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., for a week to compete for a Westinghouse scholar- ship. Jerry was among 40 selected from over 30,000 en- trants by obtaining high scores on an achievement test and submitting a science research project. All national winners held a public exhibition of their projects. The students had worked on these projects during their spare time and during summer vaca- tions. At the end of the week, awards were made, with AHS’s Jerry Cripe being the proud recipient of a $250 scholarship. Jerry Cripe achieved the honor of being named as one of America’s top 40 young scientists of 1966 displaying much prom- ise in the near future. This honor was given to Jerry by Westing- house Corp. 21

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Day after day much time was spent in rooms 105, 202, and 207 multiplying, solving equations, and working with geometric figures. The students found that it is necessary to do many problems in order to learn the fundamentals, which may prove helpful to them in our scientific world. For six weeks during December and January a group of seniors met at 7:30 each weekday morn- ing to study a semester course in “Modern Topics in Mathematics.” Mrs. Teter taught this new concept in math. Among the topics presented were sets, Venn diagrams, systems of numeration, inequalities and principles of natural numbers. This group had studied the more traditional curriculum and desired to obtain a better understanding of the newer concepts of mathematics. Steve Stafford and Rita McKean are going around in circles try- ing to figure out their geometry lessons. NEW HORIZONS THROUGH MATH Greg Frownfelter is very engrossed in getting his lesson ready for Mrs. Teter’s class. Her students learn how to use a slide rule with precision. 20 Mrs. Teter’s trigonometry class is solving for the unknown with the aid of Mollweide’s formulas.

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COMMUNICATIONS IMPROVED The Devils’ Journal was granted a chapter member- ship to the Quill and Scroll Society in 1962. Last December there were three staff members honored with individual memberships. Dee Lynn Brown, Cyn- thia Friend, and Kendra Weiler have met the high standards set by the Society and are active in keep- ing the standards at a high level. The two speech classes presented two one-act plays to junior high students. These were “All On A Satur- day Morning” and “The Leading Lady’. During the year, these classes performed “Visit To A Small Planet,” “Journey to Trenton’, “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’‘s Hung You In The Closet, and I’m Feeling So Sad” to several other classes at AHS. Besides pre- senting radio plays and short skits, the classes pre- sented a group skit on the last day of school. Then you whip and whip and whip Bill Tharpe demon- strates to his speech class just how easy it is to make Whip and Chill. ZZ gilt st Sergy, AHS attains another first. Kendra Weiler, Dee Lynn Brown, and Cynthia Friend are charter members of Quill and Scroil. Margaret Sellew and Beryl Jeakle display traits which they have acquired through the many challenging speech classes of this year.