Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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Field Trips Highlight Year AGRICULTURE It was the task of Mr. Robert Burnham and Mr. Lowell Buswell to establish some 125 students in agriculture related areas. The classes offered were Ag. I, II and III, Ag. Management, Forestry, Equipment Repair and Farm Shop. Many field trips to local farms highlighted the year; included were trips to Stamy's Orchard during a unit on pruning and grafting fruit trees and a trip to the Duesterhoeft sheep farm to learn on the farm training. This included practical experience in the injection, castration and docking of sheep. The equipment repair class (limited to senior enrollees) dealt with the maintenance of farm equipment such as a grain drill. Agriculture science instruction included background information on butchering, forestry, crop rotating, marketing, grains and ration feeding. The main goal of this department was to teach students to gain confidence in their abilities and give them the needed skills in various agriculture-related careers, stated Mr. Robert Burnham. Shane Peters and Marv Edwards take a tree core sample with a tree auger while on a field trip to Willamette Industries tree farm. Forestry student John Walton uses a clinometer to judge the heighth of a nearby towering Doug Fir. N Ken Proctor waters seedling Douglas Fir in the agriculture greenhouse, during the activity part of his class period. 20 Agriculture

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• ► Additions Include Expanded Labs LIFE SCIENCE The patient hands of a biology student water sprouting seedlings with the use of a pipette. Diligently working with planoria (o small worm). Mark Hoffman tries to pick one up for experimentation. Under the guidance of Mr. Bill Glendinning and Mr. Dan Johnson, the new facilities in the life science department gradually came to students enrolled in these science classes. New additions included an animal dissection room, darkroom, chemical storage room and growth chamber for plants. In addition to the required biology class, mini-courses and independent study programs were offered again this year. New quarters for independent study encouraged students to make in-depth studies in fields of their choice, such as Laura Graham's detailed study of cloning (the forming of identical twins from one cell). In addition, Val Cooper continued work on the salt water aquarium. The aquarium was built last year and has since then supported numerous marine specimens including sea anemone, starfish, limpets, toad fish, several species of crabs and squid. All in all, biology classes helped students better understand their world through a close examination of life around them.

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Cliff Berger demonstrates the way o drawing can torn out when a drafting machine is used in Technical Drawing class. Understanding Basic Design TECHNICAL DRAWING To set up an atmosphere in class that would allow students to improve their skills and to become aware of their potential in the field of drafting was the main goal of technical drawing instructor Mr. David Breeden. Mr. Breeden, an eight year veteran at DHS, offered six levels of drawing ranging from Basic Drawing I to Technical Drawing IV. As usual, emphasis was placed on one-to-one instruction with an abundance of open-ended assignments allowing students (depending on their abilities) to complete a varied work load. Unlike previous years, his current subject matter leaned more toward an understanding of basic design. Approximately 10 per cent of the Dallas High student body took some class in technical drawing. These courses were designed to help students learn to work independently on projects, follow instruction carefully and think on their own. Taking o coraful compass reading fully occupies tech drawing student Bruce Marshall. Jim Brown shows his proficiency in using the air brush on a drawing of a sphere in Tech Drawing III. Technical Drawing 21