Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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1 l i Demonstrating the concentration and effort people employ while taking an important physics test are seniors Fred Youn and Tim lay. Comparing data they've collected are students T Ed Barry and jon Loessel in Mr. Thomas Drum- T mond's fifth hour chemistry class. Launching a projectile in the Harvard Project Physic class and trying to predict where it will land is Mr. Timothy j. Murphy and senior Paul Shyposki. academics!11

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Science Gpens the Door to a New World Percision is what counts in a biology experiment and there preparing the mixtures are sophomores Vic- toria Burke and Susan Nuenke. Meanwhile, Mr. james Reed, supervisor is making sure everything in the procedure goes smoothly and efficiently. Accidents sometimes occur and helping student Ken l-lolka untangle his equipment for an experi- ment in earth science is Mr. Gerald Hovis. ltlfacademics Science is constantly changing, and so is Bay City Central's Science Depart- ment. This department is kept up to date by many interested and con- cerned Science teachers. This past year, new teachers have taken over the Har- vard Project Physics and Advance Biol- ogy courses and have brought in new ideas. Science offers an understanding of the World around us. It enables stu- dents of science to become aware of the many unanswered questions of today's scientific world. The lab peri- ods also help to teach students how to work together. This last year, however, the students have been deprived of many of these assets. Since the austerity program has been in effect, the laboratory sessions have been almost completely eliminated. Despite some of the set backs the millage has caused, the teachers have done their best to keep the students interested in science. A dark room for the purpose of developing photo- graphs in the physical science classes is one of the new facilities they've done. Carefully pipetting his compound for accurate data on his experiment in Advanced Biology is sophomore Tim McTaggart.

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Math Proves Important in Everyday Living Most worthwhile jobs require math- matics. That was why it was important to have a solid background in math and although it may have seemed like it was only used in the classroom, math did train students to think through prob- lems that might arise in everyday living. This year the department received new books for Plain Geometry, Plain and Solid Geometry and General math classes. Along with receiving new books, a new teacher, Mrs. Cynthia Fox, taught Trigonometry, Algebra 1 and General Math. Mr. Al Weir, coun- selor at Bay City Central, taught one math class and Mr. Tom Dobbick, who taught business in previous years in- structed three math classes. During the year, a Michigan Math- matics Competitive test was given to students trying for a scholarship to the college of their choice. The test, which came in two parts, was extremely diffi- cult. Central had two students, senior Tom Dominowski and senior Paul Sig- elko, who qualified to take the second half of the test. No one has qualified within the past two years. 12facademics Stressing the importance of math to his Adv. Al- Puzzled over a math problem and seekingthe aid gebra class is Mr. Harold Diebolt. of Mr. Harold Diebolt is Greg Kintz. Concentrating on the steps in solving a tricky Algebraic equation are a group of math students. .wm.Nw-mt-i.- ,ts .- N. . . ,. .. . t ww swf-S....ww.sW,NNWsQ..-. -QW-,M s .Q 'sw 'ssww-wsgx Q35 if-1-vgasw'a.:.t.a.-. msg Q. S : K ,