Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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C.H.S. Offers Students Four Units in Science DlS5ECTlNG A FROG seems to be an absorbing experience for biology stu- dents Terrell, Walls, Raburn, Harper, Thomasson, Moore, and Ward. In this space age of satellites and guided mis- siles, C.H.S. students have properly shown an in- creased interest in science. Last year 83 students took advanced science courses, in addition to the l2O who took general science. This year, the number of ad- vanced science students increased to TO6, with 56 students taking biology, 40, chemistry, and lO, phy- sics, offered for the first time. One hundred twenty- five freshmen took general science, the one required science unit. General science deals with the basic problems of living and the general principles by which all scien- tists work at solving these problems. Biology is taken mainly by sophomores. lt is a brief survey of the plant and animal kingdoms and their relationship to man. Biology is valuable to students who plan to major in the natural sciences. Chemistry, taken mainly 'bw MR. JACK HOPKE, who teaches biology, chemistry, and physics, is also a sophomore class sponsor, coach of junior high basketball, and Projectionist Club advisor. He received his A.B. degree at Westminster College and M.A. at Peabody College. His outside interests are his church, his family, and gardening. This is Mr. Hopke's twenty-third year at C.H.S. MR. BILL ARMENT, in his first year at C.H.S. teaches general science and coaches football and track. He received his B.S. degree at Arkansas State College. His hobbies, he says, are duck-hunting, sleeping, and eating, by juniors, is the study of matter and its changes, and covers material which would aid students expecting to study nursing, homemaking, and pharmacy. Phy- sics, a senior subject, is designed to give an elemen- tary working knowledge of the principles of physics and to help lay the foundation for further study in science. GENERAL SCIENCE STUDENTS observe a drawing of body structure.

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Fitth Unit of Math Added to Department MR. WAYMAN FOSTER teaches general math and Algebra I and is a freshman class sponsor. His outside interests are fishing, hunt- ing, and reading. Mr. Foster, who is a graduate of C.H.S., returned this year to the teaching field after an absence of several years. MISS LENA WALK teaches plane and solid geometry, Algebra I and ll, and trigonometry, and is a sponsor of the senior class. She received her B.S.E. degree from Central Missouri State College and her M.E. degree from the University of Missouri. Miss Walk's out- side interests are the Korean war orphan whom she supports and her African violets. This is her twenty-seventh consecutive year at C.H.S. OUR MATH INSTRUCTORS, Mr. Foster and Miss Walk, observe models made by solid geometry students. Both Caruthersville High School and Caruthersville students are aware of the importance ot mathematics. This year a titth unit of math was added to the department, and a larger percentage of students took advanced math courses. While only one unit in math is required, about T25 students were enrolled this year in advanced courses. The math courses offered are whole units in general math, Algebra I and ll, and plane ge- ometry and halt unit courses in solid geometry and trigonometry. These math subiects develop concepts and skills needed in the work ot business, industry, scientific agriculture, medicine, chemistry, physics, astronomy, electronics, and atomic energy. zine GENERAL MATH STUDENTS Stubbs and Woods work out a problem in division. REVIEWING FOR FINAL EXAMS are plane geometry students Book, Sowell, Abbot, Wilson and Bracey. I3