George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Logical Thinking Is Emphasized Mathematics, the basis of atomic science, holds in its murky recesses vast opportunities for anyone who dares to venture thither. Four courses in ad¬ vanced mathematics are offered at Clark. Algebra and advanced algebra, offered to fresh¬ men and juniors respectively, involve the study of technical mathematics. Plane geometry, a sophomore subject, introduces geometric laws and the princi¬ ples of logical thinking. Solid geometry and trig¬ onometry develop mathematics in space. The “new look” in the mathematics department takes the form of an accelerated course in space geometry, offered for the first time this year to seventeen select seniors. The course consolidates trig and solid in order to develop a background in college mathematics. A course in commercial mathe¬ matics is available for business-bound students. Bonnie Benko and Bob Ference are at the blackboard in geometry to discuss the finer points of a triangle. It seems that Bob is insisting on the addition of another side. The trigonometry commandment, “Thou shalt not divide by zero!” helps ' seniors Illse Economou and Bill Ignatuk to graph the trigometric functions of theta. After learning to add, to multiply, and to rationalize de¬ nominators of radicals, juniors in advanced algebra dis¬ cover a new roadblock: the imaginary number.

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Seniors in advanced composition discuss desirable contents and make-up of a theme. Margene Witzke, George Chevonec, John Sech, Betty Jo Merriman and Fred Nelson gather around Claire Benne and decide what grade this theme deserves in context and mechanics. Studying not only Latin grammar but also Roman culture is the aim of Mrs. Wilcox’s Latin classes. Sandy Fauth gives a class report on the Roman Senate. Have you ever tried to pledge allegiance to the American flag in German? Jon Fech and Kent Hannon find this a pa¬ triotic way to learn the German language. 11

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in Math and Science at Clark Seventh period biology students gather around Miss Wil- harm as she explains the specialized functions of the var¬ ious parts of simple and compound leaves. A chemical equation may be all Greek to the uninitiated, but it’s one of the things with which chemistry students valiantly struggle. Mr. Edwin Martin rules over the department, which boasted a record enrollment of sixty-three students. “An object in motion tends to stay in motion” . . . until the bell rings. This rings a bell in the minds of Mr. Martin’s physics students. These budding scientists probe the innermost secrets of matter, and there’s nothing the matter with that. With charac¬ teristic gravity, Mr. Martin discounts this year’s scarcity of physics students as simply meaning fewer chemistry students to contend with next year. Miss Wilharm and Mr. Powell lead their biology charges through an imposing gamut of topics be¬ ginning with plant and animal phyla and resolving to heredity. You can always recognize a Clark biology student — he’s the one who’s always pick¬ ing leaves. Juniors Bob Weinberg and Susan Parks study the Uniform Accelation chart in hopes of remembering the right for¬ mula on one of Mr. Martin’s famous 10-point quizzes.