Chapel Hill High School - Hill Life Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Senior Pete Beebe labors overa construction in mechanical drawing under Mr. Jackson ' s supervision Newly Expanded Math Generate Challenge Now taught entirely according to the School Mathe- matics Study Group (SMSG) method, the extensive curriculum of our Mathematics Department offers seven different courses aimed at both the college-prep and vocational student. Two years of algebra concentrate on the relationships of numbers; plane geometry focuses on the construction and theories of plane figures . Projects prepared by students in advanced Math IV extend their knowledge by relating math to other fields. Introduced this year for seniors who began Algebra I in the eighth grade, Math V deals with elementary fuctions and matrix algebra . Mrs. Rhoda T. Bisbing, BS Biology, Senior Science Mrs. Dorothy J. Edwards, BS . MEd . Plane Geometry Mr. Archie B. Fairley, Jr., AB, MEd. Physics Mr. William C. Foil, BS, MEd ., Biology, Pre -Tech . Mr. William M. Futrell, Jr., BS Chemistry Mrs. Carolyn A . Horn,AB,Med . Algebra II Mr. Searcy Jackson, BS, MEd. Mechanical Drawing Mrs. Marilyn H. Long, BA A Igebra I , Consumer Math , Pre-Tech. 24

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Fifth year French students examine Le Figaro as part of their course . Mrs. Basile dictates a dialogue to her Spanish students. Language Students Taste Culture of Foreign Lands With expansion as its byword over the past few years, our tri-lingual Language Department presently offers five yea rs of French and two of both Spanish and Latin. Included among opportunities for i nte rested French students are a club, the newly initiated monthly news- paper and French V, and a set of French encyclopedias in addition to other new books in the library and a set of taped lectures. For the development of greater compre- hension of the language, students in advanced classes do not speak English and aim at increasing their vocabulary through literature. In reading Le Figaro and presenting oral reports, French V students become acquainted with journalistic vocabulary and French personalities. Activities of the first and second year Spanish classes include sponsoring an honor society, club and newspaper. Furthermore, this past year the library added about forty Spanish novels for use of these students. Supplementing regular instruction of both courses which emphasize grammar and dialoguesas we 1 1 as literature and culture are native speakers, filmstrips and student reports. As the basis of many other Romance languages, Latin stresses v o c a b u I a r y and grammar in translation . An alteration in this program of study now makes possible Latin I and II during the junior and senior years only. Mrs . Miriam B . Arndt, AB French IV, V Mrs. JuneW. Basi le , A B Spanish I, II Miss M . E I o i s e Baynes, AB, MA Latin II, World History Miss Elizabeth Raney, AB, MEd French I , III Mrs. FI ora S. Stannett, BS French 1 1 23

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and Science Courses and Opportunity Other aspects of this department are consumer math, a survey of general mathematics; mechanical drawing including orthographic projection, lettering and con- structionand perspective and three-dimensiona I drawing . Moreover, the Pre-Tech program offers material for stu- dents who are not college bound. This year the science curriculum added the Pre-Tech course for students particularly interested in health af- fairs. Concentrating on the development of skills and knowledge in this area, the course allows opportunities for work at North Carolina Memorial Hospital and visiting speakers such as Mrs . Viola Jacobs, headof the Volunteer Office at the hospital . Representing the basic objective of our Science Department, exploration forms the core of lab sciences. As the fundamental science of the natu ra I world, physics emphasizes the reasoning behind the law of the universe. In this Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) course, concepts of light, motion, and electricity grow in the laboratory as students analyze the text, compute problems, and study films . Biology classes observe botany and biology through dissection; whereas experi- mentation proves principal theories of e I e m e n t s in chemistry. Furthermore, senior science combines all this material in a brief survey of all aspects of nature . In the future, the department hopes to offer an advanced biology cou rse . Pete Ronman and Mr. Fairley discover physics can be fun! Medical terminology stumps students in Mrs. Berggrun ' s Pre-Tech class. Mrs. Emma K.Som- m e r f e I d, AB, MEd . Algebra II, Math Mrs. Mary Lou B. Wheeler, BS, MEd. Biology 25