Frankfort Community High School - Red Bird Yearbook (West Frankfort, IL)

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Jay Kaiser is pointing to the tangent of the circle ot point D as Miss Pyatt's plane geometry class looks on. Library worker Helen Casey and practice teacher Mrs. Willard Zimbleman check out books to Charles Lamkin and Miss Martha Merrills. These will help them in their scientific and linguistic studies. Through the National Defense Education Act of 1958 FCHS has obtained a lot of new equipment for the guidance, foreign language, mathematics, and science departments. Under this act, the federal government pays part of the cost of equipment purchased by schools for use in certain designated fields of education. The biology room has been equipped with several storage cabinets, a human torso model, a human skeleton, an opaque projector, and the Life Nature Series. Plastic tops have been installed on the tables, which have been equipped with ninning water, electricity, and gas. The mathematics department has acquired a binary counter, a T-square, a drawing board, several books, and a set of plastic solid sections. The chemistry department received books and a new hood for exhausting dangerous gasses. In the physics room much new equipment has been installed. Among the items are: a Van der Graaf static machine, an AC-DC demonstration radio, a recording barometer, a spectroscope, an audio generator, a stereophonic amplifier, a turntable, an AM-FM tuner, an oscilloscope, a stereo tape recorder, two gyroscopes, a Classmaster Geiger counter, a Kater’s pendulum, and a 15 volume Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Science, mathematics On behalf of the cafeteria, Mrs. Newton, head cook, is accepting a new coffee maker from Tim Tevdovich, Cafeteria Club president. Mrs. Wright, cafeteria worker, was in charge of collecting the money for the urn, which was a surprise to Mrs. Newton. 12

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 Where’s a dog? I don’t see any dogl Do you see a dog?” Roger Neibch is amazed and the rest of the class is convulsed at this social studies questionl One of the most powerful and inspiring social forces in the world today is Christianity. Marilyn Hengst here portrays Mary, the mother of Christ, in the Biblical play. The Terrible Meek. offers directions to travelers of the future These are critical days for us — “days that try men's souls. The lives of people everywhere are rapidly changing, and even more enormous changes loom ahead. Within our lifetime, we have seen changes made. Some of them are: color television, three dimensional movies, polaroid cameras, electric can openers, frost-free refrigerators, wall ovens, air conditioning, infra-red cooking, drip-dry fabrics, hair rollers, hair sprays, home permanents, hair dryers, contact lenses, frozen foods, instant mixes, instant coffee and tea, DDT, weed killers, cloud seeding, compact cars, helicopters, jets, satellites, turnpikes, miracle drugs, oral polio vaccines, and nuclear weapons. All growth means that changes are taking place. We welcome these changes because they represent progress. In commercial law class, Danny Abner and Susan Ahlm look at a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, which is the foundation of all the laws of our country.

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Determining the pitch of a sound wave generated by a tuning fork is the object of this experiment in Mr. Walston's physics doss. D. Hutchcroft, J. Irvin, and J. Kaiser operate the apparatus as T. Jones records the data. In the background, J. Montgomery, J. Odum, and J. Walters are performing the some experiment. have brought the whole world to a crossroads The point of discussion among Larry Boyer, Wayne Boney, and Bob York is the new equipment which has been installed in Mr. Walston's physics room for the study of sound. The equipment is stereophonic in nature, and has been made possible through NDEA. Jim Burke, pointing to the Rectangular Co ordinate Chart, is showing Miss Pyatt's advanced algebra class why the graph of this function of one variable is a parabola. Ruth Lewis is holding a cone and its section, illustrating a similar parabola.