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

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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

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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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Preparing for hardships Social Studies is like one big field trip. A visit to the past can take you back to view the trials of the first settlers in the United States or to events leading to the Viet Nam War. Social Studies helps us to under- stand how our laws and government work. It teaches us about the hard- ships our ancesters lived through to help us lead free and independent lives. Civics, a required freshman course, helps make the students bet- ter citizens. Civics, which means citizenship, helps to prepare the freshman for their future social studies classes. U.S. History is a required junior course. In this class the juniors learn all about how the U.S. became unit- ed. Understanding of the Boston Tea Party was gained by acting out the battle with paper wads in Mr. Man- ner ' s class. An explanation of each section of the constitution helps us to understand the backbone of our country. Government, a required senior course, helps us to better under- stand our system of government. Government teaches us how to do the dreaded income taxes. The stu- dents participated in mock trials, senate, and elections. Social studies classes are one step towards understanding the chal- lenges to come as we work ' in a field of our own. ' Phil Funkhouser, Carisa Chipman, Jeff Burkdull, Laura Horton, Loraine Van Camp take time out from their studying in Civics to relax for awhile. Scott Twibell can easily picture a battle scene of the Civil War, as he reads about the events in his U.S. History class. U.S. History is a class for juniors. 118 Social Studies