Central High School - Wakitan Yearbook (St Joseph, MO)

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Sophomores Terry Martin and Steve Sanders preserve old speci- experiment is being tried for the first time this year under mens permanently by embedding them in bio-plastic. This the supervision of their biology teacher, George Athens. f'! Mr WWW IKM ' , W, I .,,, I ,,,, 1, Z i i General scie Veronica Ta New Worlds unfold as sci Mike Coleman, Pat Senne, Roger Wright, Jerry Riggs study water electrolysis in chemistry as Mary Ward takes notes. Scienc realm of 1 covered ar ciples yet facts that human en and the b. knowledge ulation, tl developme ment. The tunity seel Centra tists for ' biology, c acquaint t To keep u velopment its materi textbooks 1 are respor to present

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if.a5A.p.1,,..'..'.f,'.fL.., .Lf Q., Z3 : Vunior Virginia .1 i Barry Reynolds, Steve Cole, Melvin Gehrs, and Byron Katcher use study hall to finish mathematics assignments. Rhonda Ditmars finds General Math an excellent refresher course for reviewing the fundamentals of mathematics. world presents challenges the answer. athematical answers are r the solu- igures, but ,ng in crea- s a mathe- lit, it has to it iswrong. r decisions cap you, all ere right. one might ing every solution to every problem. The thing, a person has to learn isthe pattern of the procedure, and he will find he soon has the solution. Centralites wish only that their lives fitted in such a clear-cut pattern. So again the analogy of math and life is illustrated. This applies in even greater intensity to the lives of math students at Central High School. They can start their- four years of math with General Math or Algebra I and end a com- plete course with Calculus and Math Analysis. Centralites strive to take the coldness and turn it into creative thinking and reasoningg to take the precision and let it challenge their calculative minds, to take the obvious and prove it just that. In setting up a proof for an algebra problem, Diana Green and Becky Pfander learn the method of deductive reasoning. Junior Galen Herring demonstrates the advantages of the slide rule in solving problems in his Algebra II class.

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Zig 2 -4 'L V , 5 - I' ,, 1 i - 'i l i ,. , 4 ,, , . Q , . -1 Y' 4-, 1 K 2 5 ' , 5 ' :V ' 5 f ' W 4 4 , , 2- AMX i 1 1 li K l! girl, 'qqil f Q.. -W.. V Ng . Q.. 106 this year under General science students Linda King, John Masters, and under the supervision of Mr. Lecil Carroll, who is head of Athens. Veronica Tarwater study a process of distillation. They are Central's science department. O Mr. Swope with students George Fridell and Jim Beck uses a cathode ray tube as a direct method of detecting electrons. s notes. 1 Science! What does it hold for us? A vast realm of unexplored principles waiting to be dis- covered and proven! A revolution of ideas and prin- ciples yet to change the lives of men! Unknown facts that will one day be basically essential to human environment! Science, the key to the future and the basis of the present, is man's systematic knowledge of the universe. With increasing pop- ulation, the world vitally depends upon scientific development. Research is the key to this develop- ment. The field of research is so vast, that oppor- tunity seeks out the willing and earnest. Central is preparing prospective young scien- tists for the future. It offers general science, biology, chemistry, and physics, all of which acquaint the student with laboratory procedures. To keep up with the rapid pace of scientific de- velopment, Central must constantly change itas materials and methods of presentation, both textbooks and equipment. The teachers themselves are responsible for being well-informed in order to present reliable data. V 3, C' Ml - . 1 V..