High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Science helps the student to prepare for the challenge of the future. In this new age of rockets and wonderful medical discoveries, men and women who have a knowledge of chemistry, physics, and biology are needed everywhere. All good physics students, like Brenda Potter, at Commerce soon learn the co- efficient of linear expansion. Indulging in the study of physics can be a hair-raising experi- ence as shown by Tana Benoit, Karen Jones, Barbara Kuc, and Barbara Benoit, who are ‘’shocked” by the effects of the elec- trostatic generator.

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the use of accent marks in Miss As Joan Newman demonstrates McCarthy’s room, Darryl Poole, Judith Ouimet, and Thomas Far- rell look on. French and Spanish two major academic subjects at Commerce, have grown in popularity in recent years. 25 In Miss Burlow’s French II class, Deborah Malachowski, Carla Kinney, Kathleen McCleery, Diane Hoffman, Robert Parent, Can- dace Glould, Teresa Simpson, Rosemary Howard, Diane Houle, Donna Daniele, Carol Leak, and Jeanne Wroblewski are learning the nasal pronunciation of a French word.

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“Gee, do examines | really look like this?’’ exclaims Carol Milanese as she a model owned by the biology department. “Do you think that Edison started like this?’” Mona Merigian and Elsa Cressotti are involved in an experiment concerning the proper- ties and preparation of hydrogen. Better than DDT? The Venus Fly Trap is a plant that actually devours flies. It is sensitive to the touch of any foreign object. pa