Divine Child High School - Clarion Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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RIGHT: In Computer class Mike Muncey tries to decipher the directions as Cindy Tishkowski awaits the signal. BELOW FAR RIGHT: Jimmy Russo explains how to do it as Marci Parzuchowski graphs accordingly. BELOW RIGHT: In Geometry class, Donna Wathen works hard on last night's problems. .BELOW: Mike Thomas and Jackie Madaj try to decide what's what as their math problems become one mass of confusion. Mathematicians Meet Many Mixed Moods Math, according to a dictionary definition, is the study of numbers, measurement and space. While this is definitely true, most math students at Divine Child would agree that it is much more than that. Math is the bewildered look that accompanies the wrong answer after a new concept has been repeated several times; math is the wrong formula at the right time and the right formula at the wrong time. It is frustration, bewilderment, weariness and finally satisfaction when the goal of understanding the intricacy of the abstract science is reached. Divine Child offers its students many opportunities to experience these emotions first hand. As Freshmen attack the x’s and y’s of Algebra I, Sophomores trudge through thousands of triangles in Geometry. Juniors attempt to conquer the functions of Algebra 11 and Seniors wonder in which direction the vector goes in Math Analysis. Classes at D.C. have proved to the students that Math is more than a definition. It is also an exercise in mental agility and psychological endurance. 16

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ABOVE: Could the Biology students he building a ladder to heaven? ABOVE RIGHT: Freshmen boys brace themselves for the results of their IPS experiment. FAR RIGHT: Jeri Ann Klepaczyk stealthily creeps up on a poor unsuspecting little frog. RIGHT: That just doesn't register complains Chris D'Alieva to his patient instructor Marty Koskella. Junior Einsteins Probe The Dimensions of Life Man has been researching the world since the beginning of time. D.C. students keep up the tradition as they fumble with weird apparatus and formulas in hope of salvaging some new piece of knowledge. The first contact a D.C. student has with the science world is through Introductory Physical Science. In I.P.S., goggled and aproned Freshmen observe bubbling test tubes and compute the results of their experiments like amateur mad scientists. Beginning Biology students are surprised at their own mental capacities as they build complex models of deoxyribonucleic acid chains from popsicle sticks and string. The meticulous order of the Periodic Table of Elements slowly dawns on Chemistry students as the reaction equations begin to balance and corresponding precipitates and compounds are formed. Advanced Biology probes deeper into the science of life and Physics introduces the abstract world of force and energy by utilizing simple weights and balances. The lab reports may seem trivial, the homework endless, and the experiments impossible but in the end the student is left with the knowledge of a new dimension of his world and a desire to know more. 18