Central Community High School - Centralian Yearbook (DeWitt, IA)

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Logarithms, Equations, and Graphs With much moaning and groaning, the many geometry students struggle through the ye a r. Reasoning to the logical conclusion at the end of a difficult proof is one of the more chal- lenging problems facing the students of the geometry classes. Supplementing their year of Algebra I, the daring Algebra Il students probe deeper into the mysteries of mathematics. While staring at a chart of logrithms, the puzzled students try to decide whether they should log or anti- log to get the result. Rounding out their years of math, the senior math classes discover the skills of differentiation and integration. As head of the math department Mr. Beck is great at making 10 minute tests that last all period .

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Work Work Work Administrators Are Never Through! f- 7 f. , . --'. 1, . 'A r'- Secretary to Mr, Eckstrand, Doris Runge confers Decisions, decisions, decisions. . . supervising and with the school principals secretary, arge Richart, educatin 630 students keeps Howard Ehrler, prin- about the lunch count. cipal of sie high school, constantly busy. Mr, Richard Lake supervises the three ring circus Launched with a bang, thavs the only Called attendance' way to describe the 1968-69 school year. Thanks to the Alpine Computer, the typi- cal first day of school confusion was eliminated for most of the students. Dis- appointed students mobbing the office to have schedules changed and juggling of misplaced students is almost a thing of the past. A new policy was established this year to help the office staff with attendance. lf a student is going to be gone, his or her parents must cal before school starts.

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Speech Mr. James Hetrick, better known as Woody by his students, has been teach- ing Speech at Central now for two years. He teaches and listens to three stuttering, stammering classes of Speech I and one class of Speech ll. Also under his direc- tion are the musicals and plays presented by the school. This year Mr. Stephen Vermazen also helps with the teaching at Central. Mr. Vermazen also teaches two classes of English Ill., P l Les Professeurs Francais Mrs. Linda Ketchum after serving at Central for four and one-half years left at mid-term to go to Indiana with her hus- band. She has taught many students the art of speaking in a foreign language and is considered by many people a wonderful teacher. Taking her place is Mrs. Patri- cia Mahoud. Breaking in at mid-term she has taken over Mrs. Ketchum's two classes of French I, one class of French II, and one class of French III.