Douglas MacArthur High School - MacArtair Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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A large part of the Biology lab is learning how to dissect things like fetal pigs, crayfish, and frogs. 96 scienr Working science lab aides learnin Don't eat that blue stone! Mr. Bill Broussard screams at a class of freshmen and sophomores iust as they are about to munch away. Such are the hazards involved in the study of science. ln addition to classroom lectures and textbook exercises the Science Department, under the direction of Ms. Nancy Thurman, employs a working lab in which students get the chance to see and participate in what they are learning. Stu- dents are able to answer questions about a specimen which is right in front of them. Scientific laws and principals become more clear through participation. Students are able to use thousands of dollars worth of test tubes, forceps, beakers and bunsen burners which are at their disposal. Recent additions to the curriculum are Astronomy and Oceanography. In all classes the emphasis is shifting from basic study to study with application.

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Practice, sometimes tiring, but always necessary, is part of Saxophonists Elios Rios', William Wilkenson's, and Johnny Hogland's life. -M Hours of after-school practice for Girl's Choir culminates in a ioint Aldine!MacA- rthur performance at Christmas. On fall afternoons the parking lot becomes a football field complete with yard markers. The marching band prac- ticed their routines but not until all cars were removed fsometimes by brutal forcel. bandfchoirfdrama 95

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W . Yolanda Trigo, freshman, studies the of the chemical reactions of Hydro Chlorine to Sodium in Ms. Kel' ler's G.P.S. class. Micheal Love helps mix assorted chemicals, perhaps trying to create a Young Frankenstein. Or is it Frankins- teen? Forearmed is forewarned as lab students Linda Zepeda, Francis Rios, and Jeanette Vlllapando fondle the big bad blue stone in Mr. Bill Broussard's science 97