Bushnell Prairie City High School - Beta Pi Sigma Yearbook (Bushnell, IL)

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Freshman Beverly Baker gets experience with graphs in practical math class. The giant model slide-rule seems to puzzle Ace Rogers as much as his smaller one does. Fore-sighted students take four years of math Whether it is the fundamentals of prac- tical mathematics, algebra, or geometry that a student needs, or the more compli- cated techniques of advanced algebra, sol- id geometry, or trigonometry that he de- sires, a student can get it at B-PC, one of the few schools of its size to offer so complete a program in this field. Realizing that mathematics is one of the basic tools of learning and always emphasizing the practical, our mathematics teachers are zealous in their efforts to provide a good background for the student, regardless of his aim in future life. For the college- bound students, there is ample training in numerical progressions, quadratic equa- tions, logarithms, and the slide rule, as well as in graphing, radicals, and expon- ents. CLARA A'HEARN, JOHN LAWSON, M.E. M.S. of Ed. Dean of Boys Mathematics Mathematics, Science, Driver Education

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NIT'-fsgnsi -L. Social Science ancl Spanish have single goal DEAN HILL, A.B. Social Science, Driver Train- ing Spanish What greater accomplishment than to goin ability to speak fluently in another tongue! Here LeAnn Wagle and LaVerne Fryrear concentrate on Spanish verb con- iugations. JOHN BROPHY, M.S. of Ed. Social Science, English, Spanish - history - geography H econo- mics are vicarious passports to a better un- derstanding of America, of economic and pol- itical systems other than our own, and a real- ization that rapid advances in the physical sciences have changed the world so much that conflicts, which are constantly arising, can be solved only when we adjust our emo- tions and attitudes to fit the existing condi- tions which mankind's own ingenuity has created. The world becomes smaller every time a taster jet or an atomic-driven ship takes shape on a drawing board. Man has been so busy creating that he has lost sight of the importance of self-development. The main concern of social science is to advance the human emotions and standards in propor- tion to the many rapid improvements being made in the field of physical science. As the world so rapidly shrinks, students of foreign languages, such as Spanish, prepare to over- come a barrier to understanding before it begins to exist. The Suez crisis sent Don Harlan and Bernadine Worth- ington to the globe for location, of such unfamiliar places as the Gulf of A'caba and the Gaza Strip. t , i X U if

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Young scientists secure good background at B-PC Offering four years of science, B-PC is doing its bit to prepare the nation's future scientists. The only required science course, general science, is taken by fresh- men as an introduction to the higher sci- ence courses offered. This general course puts in the minds of the students questions which can only be answered by further study in the science field. Living in such a complex world, we are in constant need of the basic fundamentals taught in biol- ogy, chemistry, and physics. Knowledge which a decade ag-o was considered so technical as to be studied only by spe- cialists is teething-rings for today's high school science majors. W id 1'. ' JOHN CAMPBELL ROBERT CHYNOWETH 8.5. of Ed. M.S. of Ed. Science Science Biology student Bert Lowe discovers an entirely new and Although this maze of test tubes and technical apparatus ap exciting miniature world through the lens of a microscope. pears ominous to us, Judy Smith seems to know exactly what she is doing.