Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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FUTURE SCIENTISTS WORK Malcolm Ruby, chemistry teacher, re¬ places a bottle of potassium chloride. Armed with bunsen burners, erlenmeyer flasks, ond assorted acids, bases, and salts, chemistry students experiment. Art Gustafson scrutinizes a formaldehyde jar packed with small dissection animals. Page twenty-three

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With complete modern facilities, labs and equipment, the CPHS science program cap¬ tured students’ enthusiasm. In general sci¬ ence many of these students learned the basic mechanics of the world around them, touch¬ ing on phases of biology, chemistry, and phys¬ ics. In biology classes sophomores explored the hidden secrets of life from the simplest one-celled plants and animals to the most com¬ plex. Traditionally, the class project raising the most excitement in this course was dis¬ section. As the life scientists probed into their worms, clams, starfish, and frogs, tragic little accidents occurred, such as, ‘‘I cut out my liver; now what do I do!!” Actual lab work was also a favorite in chemistry. Be¬ sides memorizing valence tables and chemical reactions, experimenters learned many excit¬ ing things not in the text book—such as how to make explosions and that acid actually will eat holes in clothes. Seniors climaxed scien¬ tific study with physics, in which the prin¬ ciples governing matter were studied, again with experiments ranking high. TESTING AND PROBING, Jim Francis observes the effect of reduced pressure on hot water as he operates a vacuum pump in physics class.

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The efforts of C. White, X. Johnson, ond S. Moffitt prove whipping up a coke requires little effort. GIRLS WHIP UP Senior home economics student, Lois Bernhardt models on evening dress she mode in doss.