Cleveland Heights High School - Caldron Yearbook (Cleveland Heights, OH)

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luajfzemafiw- f25af1.a'1jmenZ' LANE Geometry really isn't as plain as you might imagine! This was our conclusion as we made a hasty exit from this classroom, intent on fulfllling our mission of visiting the various classes. We next peeped, but only briefly, at the deter- mined students in trigonometry, and advanced alged bra, laboring over another baffling problem. More interesting to see was the solid geometry class, which at that moment was engaged in pointing out and naming the many angles of a geometric form. We were amazed to see many of these geometric models about the room, and later learned they were the real bug-a-boos of many an ambitious stude. This year, more than ever before, boys of high school age are learning the value to be received by taking as much math as possible. Realizing the absolute necessity of preparedness for service in the armed forces, Heights has added to its curriculum two courses for boys-a refresher course in Math, and a pre-flight class. F. A. Norris Merle McFadden John Langmead Carl Dewald F. R. Downey Donald Lawson Karl Christman Otto Budde Dr. H. M. Strauss J. W. Cox Norval B. McAffee H. E. Mcl.aughl1n Harold Harter Ralph Fraunfelter Science fb COMPLICATED and intriguing apparatus is rigged up, with grotesquely shaped bottles and beakers, filled with various chemicals, bubbling away. The class sat in silent expectation as they waited for the ultimate outcome of this experi- ment-Boom! When last seen, the short fellow in the front row was shooting out the door, followed by two bunsen burners and a florence flask!! After our very hasty departure from the Chemistry class Cvia the hole in the back wallj, we entered the comparatively quiet Biology room, where delicate girls were appalled at the thought of dissecting a frog! In the Physics lab, puzzled students chewed at their fingernails, trying to solve a difficult brain teaser concerning electricity. As we glanced at their test papers we saw that they had already struggled through countless questions on gases, liquids, sol- ids, sound, and light. Leaving an aspirin on each desk to reward them for their great efforts, we tip- toed out.

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Gail Vannorsdall Dorothy Crane Catherine Weller Walter Bird Edith Turner Roy L. Uber Evelyn Kritter eammmaiwl fb Z' HE was making strange little curled lines on the blackboard, and after much deliberation we concluded that they must be Indian hieroglyphics. However, upon being duly informed, we learned that this was merely one phase of a course called shorthand. The rhythmic clicking of the typewrit- ers was the only noise that broke the dense silence of the next room we visited, which was full of girls, filled with hope and anxiety that someday they might perchance become secretaries. Occa- sionally some irate, frustrated typist would madly jerk the paper from her machine, crumple it noisily into a ball and toss it across the room into the large wastepaper basket kept for this express purpose. Commercial Math, also offered at Heights, teaches future business professionals how to solve problems which present themselves. Re-entering the typing room we were astonished by a mysterious situation. The entire room was now filled with males also industriously typing away. These boys informed us that they were enrolled in a pre- induction typing course, another war effort at Heights. t pfufiical Zcfacalian lee HOUTS of Forward, Marchl and Column, Left! greeted our ears as we saw the gym classes, busily marching in military precision. The war has greatly affected this department. This year boys are required to take five periods of physi- cal education a week, and from what we hear it's really become an education in itselfl No more flabby, unused muscles for Heights males-now they exercise and march, preparing themselves for their place in the armed forces. Girls are being trained to co-ordinate movements, take orders quickly, and become physically fit. But what about sports? you may say. Have no fears, for all after-school sports are still offered. Girls still participate in field hockey, basketball, baseball, swimming and tennis, and boys are just as active on varsity football, basketball, baseball, swimming, track, golf and tennis teams, as well as in intramural sports. The regular course in hygiene, required of all juniors, has been augmented by much first-aid in- struction. Florence Bromelmeier Myron W. Randall P. A. Cooley Lawrence Behney Kathryn Hill M. A. Raub Ethel Magee James Price

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Ruby S. Baker lda Bouck Irl East Oscar Lehman Paul S. Nash George Barbour Alvin Engel Clarence Winans Lillian Clark Ethel McCabe Peggy Blum and Rosemary Carluzzi make the grade aqbijoaq fb T isn't antique! It's new and exciting! Have you ever realized that what is happening today in your world will be the history tomorrow's stu- dents will study? We were much impressed by the courses taught in history. American History this year is quite dif- ferent from that taught three years ago, or even one year ago, for each passing day changes it. Even so, students are kept well-informed of world events by lengthy discussions of world problems. Even the courses in ancient and medieval history only serve as a rich background for the development of today. The half-year courses in economics and social problems teach pupils some of the solutions to seri- ous problems which will face them as well as their country after we win the ultimate victory. In the past, the History Department has sent four outstanding students to the National Institute at Washington, D. C., for a week. It is probable, however, that this practice may have to be post- poned until after the war. Through an intensified study of the modern day problems facing the world, the Heights history stu- dents are taking the first steps toward fulfilling their duty as competent leaders of post war recon- struction. Even as we write, history is changing as we watch our own students join the youth of the United Nations in their iight for freedom!