Calumet High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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The Many Wonders Of The World Sheila Martinez studies the samples of sawdust, cake and sand while preparing her assignment in general science. Cape Canavaral won’t have to worry as long as high schools, such as Calumet, keep instructing prospective scientists through its adequate sci- ence departments. Our curriculum of science courses which offers general science, chemistry, biology and physics is complete enough to give students a sufficient knowledge of the subject. The scientific minded student begins his first year by enrolling in biology, the study of plants and animals or general science, which deals in a general study of the subject. A secondary step is chemistry, in which stu- dents obtain the basic concepts of organic and in- organic chemistry, often, very often, by perform- ing experiments. The ambitious student goes even one step further and investigates his surroundings, by studying matter and energy, the two basic sub- stances in life. Jeanie Crowe is just one of the many science students who demonstrates inertia. Don Hamilton and Ronnie Furgye consult the reference books for information in general science.

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It just takes a little know how to perform a chemistry experiment, and Frankie Wells and Jackie Sanders have the know how. Science Deals With Dissecting a frog is tedious work but Steve Cibak, Rose Mary Pad- ron, and Dennis House seem to have the situation well in hand. John Sankowski prepares to heat the contents of the test tube as Julie Kalinowicz and Mike Hicks looks on to record the re- action. 10 -

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Math Is The “Now, this is the top of a dissectable cone”. Roseann Scheus- ter explains this to the rest of the class during a demonstra- tion in solid geometry class. If a preamble to a mathematical constitu- tion were to be written perhaps it would read as such: “We hold this truth to be self-evident, that mathematics is the science dealing with the measurement, properties and relationships of quantities.” Even though we do not possess such a con- stitution at Calumet, we do offer the following subjects: Algebra, which deals with literal numbers, symbols and equations, or general math which deals with practical story problems, is offered the first year. Those who wish to increase their knowledge in the field of mathematics may enroll in plane geometry, which deals with the reasoning of two- dimensional figures; advanced algebra, which covers such things as square roots and quadrat- ic equations; solid geometry, which deals with the reasoning of three-dimensional figures and trigonometry, which is an accumulation of other forms of math. Barbara Cederoth has just finished working and explaining this trigometric function in a senior trigonometry class. - 12 -