Butler High School - Nugget Yearbook (Butler, NJ)

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CLASSROOIVIS AND One of the busiest places in school is the library. During homeroom period i students go there and keep the library service bustling as shown below. Lunch study at Butler High School is a necessary evil. Many good students utilize this half period either by finishing homework or reading a book, others, however, just goof off. Busily at work in the chem lab trying to find which dye is fast and which isn't, Before the inevitable calisthenics Doc lngold has his Gym class space properly. Despite a little grumbling the boys shape up quickly. Mr Dean shows his attentive Histor clas . y s the location of a country being discussed Lively discussions are an integral and interesting part of his method of teaching

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22 These twenty-five smiling faces belong to the members of the Science Fair com- mittee and the students who were awarded prizes for their exhibits in the Fair. They are shown standing in front of the door of the Ciba Pharmaceutical Lab- oratory Where they Went for their annual Science Trip. 1958 SCIENCE FAIR The Science Fair is one of the most important events at Butler High during the school year, It takes place in the early spring-usually March. Many projects, displays, and reports are entered. Most entries are made by students who are just plain interested in Science, whether they have it in a class or not, A few exhibits, however, are done by those who are entering them only because they have to- Chemistry and Physics students are required to have something in the Fair, - Our Fair has six sections-Physics, Chem- istry, Engineering, General Science, Biology and Conservation. The students may enter their projects in whichever field they Wish. A biology student need not necessarily put his exhibit in the Biology section, but could if he wants. At last year's Science Fair, the top honors for boys went to Bob Kaye for his project The Effects of Gebbrelic Acid on Plants, and for the girls, to Linda Wyman and Gail Fergusson for their exhibit entitled Dissection of Felicus Domesticusf' These displays received the Grand Prizes of the Fair. Other prize-Winners were: Physics: Honorable mention- Ignition Sys- tem, Bob Paull and Pete Worden, third place - Amateur Radio, Patrick Crowley, second place - Electric Fly Trap, Kathy Bauernfeind: first place - Solar Energy, Betsy Collins and Sidney Kadish. Chemistry: Honorable mention - Boiling Water with Ice, jean Cormack, second place - Oil Well, Sue Taggart, first place- Lig- nin, Peter Erb. Engineering: Honorable mention - Van- guard, Bill Hess, second place - Atomic Sub, Russ Tyldesley, first place - Power From the Atom, Bob Passerelli. General Science: Honorable mention - The Van Der Groff Generator, Bob Steinerd, sec- ond place- Milk, Elke Gronemeyer, first place - Nine Steps to the Stars, Doug Nichols and Paul Coty. Biology: Honorable mention- Stems and Dicots, james Rhinesmith, honorable mention Heart, john Besher, third place - Mush- rooms, Ellen Rickman, second place - Hered- ity, Dodie Boyhan, first place -- The Plant Kingdom, Barbara Bellars. Conservation: Second place- Oil Well, Mike Egan, first place - Beaver, Fred Talasco. Carl Wesley points to his display on Work and Machines as he explains the principles of the pulley and inclined plane to Mr. Easterbrook, who is ap rentl ver interested in this subject. PU Y Y 'Q