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

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Amy Sills studies her physics assignment with help from her doll. She and her doll par- ticipated in Kiddies day during Homecom- ing spirit week. Scott Stroup shows off his seed display in Mrs. Valencic ' s biology class. Besides a seed collection, students were required to collect 25 leaves. 116 Math Tod Boise is studying Algebra II. Algebra II is to prepare students for Trigonometry and col- lege mathematics.

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Communication widens What is the first step towards learning? To be able to learn you must be able to communicate. Saying the right words at the right time is an important part of life. Knowing the right pronunciation may make a good first impression. Being able to use the English lan- guage correctly can add an air of dis- tinction and further college work. English takes steps towards im- proving your vocabulary. In College Prep, English students work on Lat- in and Greek derivities to improve their vocabulary. The wider the vo- cabulary becomes the broader the communication spectrum. Education is just one thing that communication is used for. Commu- nication is als o important in finding jobs and meeting people. Communication is the first step to- wards meeting the challenges that arise ' in a field of our own ' . Tammy Fisher accompanies Charlene Harvill 1 on the piano as Charlene recites the Ra ven to ' her peers in her Enghsh class. ' Mrs. Groves shows Victor Gayheart how to use the filmstrips in Reading Lab. Reading Lab is taken to increase student ' s reading speed and vocabulary. Language Arts Dept. 115

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The path to the future Becoming a doctor or great scien- tist was just a dream in grade school. As we entered high school and start- ed planning for college those dreams came closer to reality. Homework varied from running through the woods looking for leaves that belong in our collection due tomorrow, to studying for two hours for a big trig test. Studying over those puzzling calculus prob- lems and being not quite sure just how to begin made it very easy to want to give up. The Bruin spirit ap- peared just in time to give the little Margy Cimino carefully slides an unusual bug into the cup. Many Advanced Biology stu- dents spent hours collecting bugs in similar situations. boost that was needed. Science led to interesting things. Dissecting a cat? It sounds hard to believe but it has been the talk of the science classes for the past sev- eral years. Walking down the hall during the spring of the school year ' Cat ' talk can be heard everywhere. Crawling through weeds to sneak up on that unusual bug to add to the collection, cutting up worms and cats in biology, and cramming for a big chemistry test, somehow be- came fun for us because we were learning. Below Lacey Piercy and Rod Pethel discuss what they found when dissecting a fish dur- ing a lab in Mr. Cooper ' s fifth period Life Sci- ence class. Math Department Jerry Shreeves — Dept. Chair., Trigonometry, Calculus, Algebra II. Jay Beaver — Shop Math, Algebra I II. David Newell — General Math, Ge- ometry. Judy Trees — Algebra I, General Math. Doug Osborn — Algebra I U, Gen- eral Math. Betty Anderson — General Math, Geometry. Science Department Don McAfee — Dept. Chair., Phys- ics, Advanced Chemistry, Phys- ical Science. Jon Stroup — Chemistry, Physical Science. Chris Coy — Advanced Biology, Bi- ology. Michael Cooper — Life Science. Beverly Valencic — Biology, Life Science. Science 117