Edison High School - Edisonian Yearbook (Lake Station, IN)

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photography, industrial arts important After receiving his assignment, Ron Bartley, senior, prepares a lathe project. Mr. Val Aurit, drafting instructor, seems pleased with a stu¬ dent’s completed assignment. Mr. Earl Spiece demonstrates the use of a drill press to his machine shop class.

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in future careers Bio-physics gave students a general outlook into the study of biological and physical science. Plant diagrams, insect collections, and animal classifi¬ cations were familiar biology projects. Advanced biology was a new course introduced to help bridge the gap between general biology and college bi¬ ology. Working with test tubes and formulas, chemistry students learned the technique of per¬ forming lab experiments. The basic principles of friction, motion, and force in physics made stu¬ dents aware of the laws of nature present around them. In the field of mathematics, general math, ap¬ plied math, and senior math were courses dealing in basic arithmetic. Students of Algebra I and Al¬ gebra II learned a new approach to solving math problems by using symbols instead of numbers. Postulates and theorems caused puzzling prob¬ lems for plane geometry students. The more in¬ terested students took trigonometry. Kathy Koutsis, junior, completes a bio-physics lesson by viewing the parts of a grasshopper through a microscope. After seeing a movie on the principles of friction, physics students discuss their notes. Mr. Daryl Boggs demonstrates a new experi¬ ment to his attentive colleagues, Mr. Norman Koerwitz, Mrs. Mary Hunter, and Mr. Phil Ryals, science teachers.

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to student vocations Bruce Timberman, senior, adjusts the lens before en¬ larging several photographs. Preparing students for positions as architects, carpenters, photographers, and machinists was the purpose of courses in industrial arts and pho¬ tography. Under the classification of industrial arts were machine shop and drafting. Machine shop offered students the chance to become acquainted with the operation of such machines as the drill press and the lathe. Drafting taught students the basic fundamentals of drawing blueprints. Students de¬ veloped building, house, and landscape designs. Photography courses not only instructed stu¬ dents on how to take pictures, but also on how to develop, enlarge, and reprint them. Another aspect to the Photography Department, the audio-visual class, taught students the operation of projectors and filmstrips. Bruce learns to operate a movie projector as part of his audio-visual class training. Mr. John Holubes demonstrates proper photographic pro¬ cedure to his photography class.