Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Cake made from a recipe in the Spanish language by Dina Clamme and ]im Horsley is sampled with a gracias by classmate Melanie Rogers. formulas helped if all else failed Figures and order are fundamental tools for learning. Their use in school usually results in a formula which stu- dents can follow to create, to prove, or to discover. The pattern formula that Christy Ma- lott went through to make her brown suede fur-lined midi coat was worth the trouble. The additive plaster done by Jeff Woolard and displayed in the cafeteria hall was just oae of the many formulas in art. This was also a great year for the birds, as 35 of the 48 eggs hatched in the long procedure in the Science De- partment incubator. For three weeks Caria Vargo and Barbara Walker turned the eggs every morning and evening. Math students, however, let a ma- chine work out the formulas. There is less stress on slide rules and more on calculators, commented Mr. Shreves, department chairman. Formulas are everywhere — even these two pages of the yearbook re- quired the following of formulas to make everything fit. Very Interesting, Dennis Fisher seems to say as he goes through prescribed order of heating potassium permanganate in Physical Science. 40 Learning By Formulas

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Miscalculations should be outlawed, Brian Willmann probably believes, when he finds out the hard way in Woods II class. Rule for success Try, try again ' Practice makes perfect in the class- room too — but not without a few mis- takes in the learning process. The trial-and-error method plaved its part, for example, in Bookkeeping, where time and erasures corrected er- rors on trial balance and worksheets. Special Education students tried and tried again in solving puzzles. Ag boys worked and reworked crop budget projects. Students sometimes found classes weren ' t what they expected, and Guid- ance required parent signatures to trv a new class. Auto mechanics prevented later boo-boos by experience gained on cars of the public, whom thev invit- ed to bring cars for servicing at nominal fees. Distress seems to be the problem for Steve Kellogg, who discovers trial-and-error is necessary even be- tween classes — in opening lockers. By Trial And Error 39

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A welcome inio ihe world is givfn lo ihe chicle by Brenda Coleman after a three-week incubation schedule in Mrs. Valencic ' s Biology I. Eight scoops of gray powder, two scoops of red, a little water — and the fun begins lor Tom Davis and Mark Mclntire as they make clay for Art. Going through the procedure of getting her pattern ready for cutting out her material is Susan Morrison in Mrs. Bowdell ' s Home Ec. III. Learning By Formulas 41