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

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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.

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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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Social Sciences Encourage Good Citizenship The academic “new look” extends into the social sciences. In order to meet the demand of our society for well-informed citizens, economics and world history have been added to the list of required sub¬ jects. World geography, U.S. history, and govern¬ ment round out the list. In their study of economics, seniors learn the principles of production, consumption, and distri¬ bution by comparing different economic systems. U.S. history, offered to juniors, concentrates on the events of the twentieth century. The hope is that a clearer understanding of American heritage will produce better citizen s. Comprehension and appreciation of the past world-wide events that have molded the present are the objectives of world his¬ tory classes. In all courses, subject matter is vitalized through the use of such periodicals as Time, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. The importance of gestures, facial expression, and voice variation is practiced by Gary Kaplan in his speech work. Khrushchev in the United Nations has nothing over enthusiastic Clark debaters. The sole purpose of debaters Illse Economou, Mike Kirn, Bob Weinberg, Donna Enright and Clara Welty is to determine whether or not the UN should be strengthened.