Gabriels High School - Trumpet Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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Experimentation leads to scientific understanding 26 Biology, Chemistry, Physical Science, Physics . . . all are science yet each opens up a new and unique Held of study. Dis- enchantment occasionally sets in as the sophomores become lost in a maze of amino acids and DNA, juniors nurse burns inflicted by mishaps with the Bunsen burner or hydrochloric acid, and physics students discover that their experiments have failed after weeks of hard work. As the year progresses, how- ever, disillusionment vanishes as basic concepts are finally grasped and laboratory skills are mastered. Study and experi- mentation are no longer tedious ordeals to be endured or avoided, but the tools to scientific understanding. At yearis end, science students emerge with a sense of the complexity, yet basic simplicity, of the universe.

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Discipline of Drafting contrasts freedom of Art The very nature of drafting demands precision, disci- pline, and rigid control. Students of drafting gradually ac- quire these qualities as they sketch, discard, and resketch until perfection is achieved. As the draftsman obtains more experience and his manual dexterity increases, he realizes the value of the rigidness and control so strictly enforced. In a sense, art begins where drafting leaves off. Art is the tangible expression of a person's creativity. To express oneself with his or her hands and to actually see the results, instills into the art student a personal, undefinable satis- faction. This year, under the direction of Mrs. Rood, the art classes worked with charcoal and pastels, took up pottery and poster-making, and learned many new techniques. In every instance, the 'iartistsn were free to follow the direction of their own individual creativity and to interpret what they perceived into their work.

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Opposite: Debbie Golata carefully adjusts her balance as she painstakingly weighs a substance for her chemistry experiment. Below: Under the watchful eye of Sister Andrew joseph, Mike Radelet prepares to undertake a physics experiment. Left: During the study of photosynthesis in bi- ology, Virginia Dionise gets a first-hand view of the microscopic structure of a plant leaf.