Corcoran High School - Glen Echo Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Peggy Collins Evelyn Colomb Robyn Condon Maureen Connelly Eddie Cook Susan Cooper Tom Corbett Sharon Corcoran Dave Cortese Kelley Cramer Alvin Crawley Mike Dahlin Donna Darling Michael David Darius Davis Cara Delaney Dorine Delee Kathy DeRosa Roger Derwoyed Linda Dio Debra Dixon Lillie Dixon Cindy Donalson Darlene Donath Test Tube Trauma Chemistry, the much dreaded class, gen- erally taken by Juniors, is a hinderance to many of us at Corcoran. For those of us who have taken it, we have many fond UD memories. Who can forget watching dedicated students diligently trying to light their bunson burners, the tools used most often throughout the year. The looks of anticipation as the young chemists excitedly wait for the result sometimes are more comical than expected. Many a student will red- facedly connect his burner to the gas after 8 or 10 futile attempts at lighting the cursed thing. The hopeless chemists will be long- remembered, as each lab period C2 days a weekj they unknowingly turn the lab fand the school, for that matter!J into a tire hazard by adding the wrong chem icals to the wrong test tubes, or letting the flame of their bunson burners dwin- dle to nothing, yet leave the gas turned on. Eventually the gas leak is discov- ered, as the other students, and of course the teacher, begin to smell the familiar odor. And we'll never forget the periodic table, which is a guide to the basics of Chemistry, but always seems to be a puzzle, with quite a few pieces missing. To sum up, Chemistry is . . . well, it's sort of. . . well, it's rather . . . it's kind of an . . . experience.

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,f' X llill 2'-H' Doreen Brubaker Bernadette Buerkle Barbara Bugnacki Patti Bullard David Burden Chuck Campbell Lori Caparco Keith Carolin Rick Carriere Don Casler Amy Castle Patti Chestnut Mark Chilton Jud-y Christopherson Athena Christou Raymond Churchill Doug Clark John Clark Joyce Clark Bill Coghlan Dan Cole Judy Cole Paul Coleman Gail Collins orunf SI Transition-Historically Speaking Outwardly, he appears very confident, but that is a mask concealing a real panic. He is as wise as Solomon, but as much a fool as a medieval court jester. He enjoys working with others, but often says, Let me do it! Generally, he is responsible, yet he often tries to avoid all types of accountability. He always asks, f'Why? , but rarely inves- tigates for himself. He shows originali- ty and careful planning, especially when he copies the work of others. He shows ability and skill in particular areas, but rarely does more than the minumum. He is creative, yet mediocre. He usually completes assignments, but never, does it seem, on time. He always has an excuse, but it makes sense only to him. What is this creature? He is a sophomore! He is a student in his second year of study. Within a year, this mystery wrapped inside an enigma will unravel, and the change is almost blinding. Not only will he mature physically fhe will fill the classroom seat much better nowj, but acquire, it seems, an entirely different personality-an entirely new set of traits and characteristics. His tenth grade teachers will not be able to recall him ever having possessed such. He will no longer need a mask. He will exhibit a calmness that smacks of total confi- dence. He will be a Junior, only one year behind the dignified and high- ranking Senior. He will watch disillus- ioned Sophomores registering for class- es, and losing their way to classes. He will exhibit a haughty aloofness for their plight. He will decline to help them, insisting that they learn, as he did so many, many years ago, on their own. He will no longer run in the halls, from class to class, fearing that he will be late-Sophomores do that. A Junior takes his time going to class. After all, he will now have an excuse that will make sense to any teacher. He will be more quiet, reserved and studious. tion, and he has a class ring to prove it. I rn 5 n-1 1 na G O 1 .... I3 23 O 1 1 O 1 an f'V ro 4 na 5 O' co 5. UQ 'W fb reminded that he was once a Sopho- more. When he is a Junior, he will ask his tenth year teachers such questions as, f'Didn't we drive you crazy last year? , or Weren't we terrible last year? Ut is, in a way, a means by which the Junior can apologize for ever being a Sophomorej And when the teachers casually laugh off the answers to those questions, it is as a sign to the now', upperclassman that his sophomoric antics and attitudes are as much a part of ancient history as the course that he once took in that dim and distant past. To the tenth grade teacher, it is also a sign-a sign that, at last, he's grown up. After all, he has put away the toys of 0 O his youth. He is not far from gradua

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John Donegan Donna Drake Jeff Drew Becky Durham Cathy Ecker Gregory Edge Andy Eicholzer Kathy Ellinger Sue Emm Joanne Esce Sara Evertz Nancy Falso Neal Felder Tom Feyerabend Anne Files Margaret Fitzpatrick Vickie Floyd David Ford Leroy Fowler Julie Fox Dave Freund Cheryl Furze Karen Galvin Matt Gannon Alison Garvin Chuckie Garzone Youlanda Gatcwood Kevin Gauthier Coleen Gleason Curt Goldacker A typical scene during a chemistry lab, flare-ups like this are the reason that the life expectancy of the average chemistry teacher is lower than the national average Conly joking, Mr. Swiatlowskij 2