Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Mysteries of Earth and Space Were Probed Biology students prepare for one of Miss Tinsman’s quizzes. Tony Poupoulos, David Simmons, and Mary Smith conduct an experiment to find the focal point of a lens. With the help of Emerson’s Science Department, students were able to acquire a proper background for further study. Bio-physics and physical science were the two basic science courses. Insects, animals, plants, and humans were a few of the subjects discussed in biology. Laboratory work through experiments with the elements of nature was done by those taking chem¬ istry. This year the members of the Science Club made individual projects such as bacteria cultures and solar oscillators. Such puzzling questions as How fast does sound travel? How can a camera take a picture? and What are cosmic rays? were answered by the students in physics class. A study of matter, energy, light, heat, sound, electricity, the energy of moving bodies, and atomic energy was accomplished by those who wished to receive a major in the science field. 24

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Mrs. Pierce helps Carla McDowell paraphrase a soliloquy from Macbeth. of English Through a Three-Year Study Tom Wool and Angie Ypsilantes are thinking wishfully as they admire one of the travel posters in Mrs. Pierce’s room. Juniors were introduced to the thought-provok¬ ing science of the Humanities with Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. A requisite for the comple¬ tion of English III was a 15,000 word research paper, which was to develop interest in a pros¬ pective career. Shakespeare’s plays, including Macbeth and Hamlet, composed the main plan of study for senior English. The selected few seniors were in¬ vited to take advanced literature and composition. A progressive study of literature was made by these students. Working with pantomimes, dramatic readings, and extemporary speeches in speech class gave students an opportunity to overcome their shy¬ ness in talking before a group. 23

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Math Is Important in Everyday Living Jeff Davies and Steve Wetmore work on a complica ted trig identity. Because of the ever-growing need for scientists, mathematics plays an important part in education today. Students who wish to explore the realm of numbers and angles could have taken any of the many math courses offered at Emerson. General math, applied math, and senior math were the basic arithmetic courses. The more interested students took Algebra I. This course dealt mainly with learning how to solve prob¬ lems by using letters and various other symbols in¬ stead of numbers. Those taking Algebra II learned to use determi¬ nants, quadratics, and logarithms in solving prob¬ lems. Tangents, cotangents, sines, and cosines were used in solving identities by. the trigonometry students. Mr. Eivaz explains a tough algebra problem to Paul Mather. TOP TO BOTTOM: Mr. Sargon Eivaz Mrs. Barbara Mitchell Mr. Orrin