Bronx High School of Science - Observatory Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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AD HBS Our school is particularly noted for the courses offered to interested students in the advanced sciences and mathematics. Advanced General Chemistry, for example. capably taught by Mr. J0S6Pll llhffffY and Michael Werblow. keeps the students busy with sundry experiments in making soap. fermenting alcohol and determination ol' the atomic weight of oxygen. The latter experiment often leads to complications. with each term one student empirically arriving at the novel fact that the atomic weight of oxygen is 26.75. Analytical chemistry. supervised hy Dr. Joseph C. Harwell. is designed only for those students immune to good concentrated odors of hydrogen sulfide. The course is comprised of students receiving a small bottle of some mysterious fluid and then they spend weeks trying to determine its contents. A course in the fundamentals of radio gives students basic understanding of the operations involved in the use of radio circuits. The course has become a glorified radio repair shop. with students carting their parents' broken sets to school to utilize Mr. Donald Dowis freely given experience and equipment. In the automotive physics course. one usually sees only a pair of feet sticking out from the undersides of an engine. The largest ol' those feet belong to Mr. Joseph Heitner. while the rest belong to the boys. and especially girls. who are learning the principles not only of automobile engines. but also stationary and airplane engines as well. If you see a student running out of a class room holding his nose or applying a band aid. you know heis just emerged from Mr, Edward Frankel's clinical biology course. This course, covering blood analysis. urinalysis and glass slide specimen staining. is one of the most popular in the school. A combination of keeiinff rats and cooking cakes is the curriculum of the home P t tech Girls. under the tutelage of Field Bio. the third liiolooy elective under Klr. Sol T' Z' F. Hudin. is comprised mainly ol students taking trips to parks and study specimens of plants and animals and their ecology. The course is especially valuable for training as a nature counselor. Advanced Mathematics covers a smattering of calculus. analytical geometry and topography. together with a little bit ot' Mr. Samuel Greitzeris philosophy and idio- syncrasies. Mr. Sidney Dushmanis course. the History and Development of Science, is intended for students who are interested in the trends and logical processes that led towards the development of modern scientific thought in such fields of astronomy. nuclear physics and theories of light motion. As a rule all the students who took these courses found them not watered down college courses. hut instead as stimulating and enlightening as any given tw the universities. 28

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A CREDO Wind through the open windows ofthe bus Twists hair into spirals of illusion. Wind speeds the impertinent hour, Blowing past the ear words from Nazareth. And dust in the wind says: Your sister shares your fateg Your brother shares your angerg Step into the magic circle of chalk. Stare at the furnished face. It leers at the hour. Laughs now At our thin worshipping of time. Rebuild the wind-formed patterns in the starsg Rebuild the features on your faceg I.eer at time: at your watch: Construct the justified story from the pertinent factg Leer at wind and at people. The casual countenance. using the Hhers of your heart, Heconstructs viewed caution on an hour recently subdued. Pinched lips question the validity of the dare And questions split the wind on twisted hair: .ind the dust in the wind says: Receive the cross hut do not hendg Do not dissemhle hefore a glanceg Retrieve the original purpose: Trace your heritageg Blend fear with water. IF if I could see her once more, if I might whisper as before. if I dared touch her again. if I would tenderly explain. xXCX2-OUQIX As the days pass by Still, I shall grow hitter as .Iason still, I shall pray as did Joshua still, I shall wait, Forh h.m.s. cre0Pingl ilfg cz sn Una' illingto 8011001

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