DeSales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Wonderland Diligent Dissectors Busily engaged in studying the structure of a cray fish are (seated) Cornelius Taney, Rich- ard Chilbert, Nancy Lee; (standing) Richard Bicsenbach, Anne Sullivan and William Hefferon. The Magic of Chemistry Participating in an experiment for preparing and studying the properties of nitric acid are Frances Certo, Richard Desilets, Francis Caravita and Roberta Flood. 21

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Adventures in Scientific Balance in Nature Four students in General Science Class find out the interdependence between plants and animals by making a balanced aquarium. They arc Katherine Clark, Beverly Dejohn, Theodore Sierzenga and Thomas Toole. General Science has indeed been for us an adven- ture where we found out how to find the answers to the questions: What is it? How does it work? What causes it? What are the results? In science classes we have become interested in the factors of our environ- ment, whether it be the crowded city or the open country; whether we look at the smoking chimney of a factory or up to the twinkling beauty of the stars. We have come to understand that adventure lies in searching for better ways of accomplishing tasks and finding new inventions which will improve modern living. Biology, too, is truly a science of wonder. Because biology is the study of living things, it is a field of learning which affects the lives of all human beings. It shows us the wonderful way in which our body is constructed and how it functions. It gives us import- ant information about other living things. We begin to realize with awe that all nature, the mountains and meadows, the oceans and streams are filled with creatures beautiful to behold and thrilling to study. Gulliver, in all his travels in Lilliput, never beheld such tiny plants and animals as actually exist in countless numbers all about us. We live in a world of great beauty and variety. Only powerful micro- scopes can strengthen our sight sufficiently to enable us to discover and study them. For us fortunate enough to study chemistry, it is not only interesting, but it embraces a field of useful and valuable knowledge. Our laboratory periods are fascinating; working with new and strange substances gives us the thrill of the discoverer. To see iron burn in oxygen, phosphorous take fire in air, zinc dust ex- ploding, sodium reacting violently with ordinary wa- ter, and to prepare substances with beautiful colors and strange odors are experiences that are for us both thrilling and memorable. In fact, each of the sciences has opened for us a world of wondrous beauty and fascinating life, a world of faith and reverence showing us unmistak- ably the Hand of God. 20

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 Melody Makers (First row) Joseph Natelli, James Lawlor, James Donahue, John Sears. Marlene Bell, Frances Certo, Josephine DiAntonio, Delores Picchi, Mary Robie; (second row) Elaine McAvoy, Ann Clement, Ellen McGuire, Beverly Hefferon, Beatrice Liberatore, accompanied by Jean Bolin, sing Into the Night,” directed by Sister Leo Xavier. Cheerfully We Check Janice Acquilano — (seated) shows Gerald Lynch, Martha Connor, Eleanor Chilbert, William Hefferon how graphic and algebraic solutions check.