Harrison High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Farmington, MI)

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Science Growth Due To Fruit Flies99 THE YEAR OF the rat ended and the year of the fruit fly began. This year, Biol- ogy II students spent ten weeks on the types and genetics of fruit flies. Biology II was a many-faceted course that seemed to be very popular with both the teachers who taught the course and the students who took the course. Through new courses and other changes, there was vast progress in the Science Department. Although funds were lacking, teacher perseverance helped the growth of the de artment. Biochemistry, the chemis- try of ife, was rejected because of a lack of district funds. Except for regular chemistry one of the two labs were omitted, allowing each teacher to teach an additional class. This year Harrisonis Science Department incorporated a new class into their curricu- lum. Basic Biology was a class for non-sci- ence majors who wished to complete their graduation requirements of two semesters of science. Mr. Tom Shalla, the teacher of this course, was also the head of the depart- ment.

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ABOVE: Science department. Top to bottom: 1. to r. Larry Fortner, Katherine Suchyta, Roy Lewis, David Poelke, Tom Shalla, Dennis King. TOP: Mr. King demonstrates his latest gismo. ABOVE RIGHT: David Silver conducts an experi- ment that blows up in his face. ABOVE FAR RIGHT: Doug Kay confers with Robert Doyle on a leafy matter. EXTREME RIGHT: Unknown student hands dismantled frog. FAR RIGHT: Bruce Chan and Jeff Tottis become entranced in their experiment. RIGHT: Mark Morreli plays with mice. 28 Mutuu.

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30 Casino Tactics In Probability STUDENTS COULD ROLL dice, deal cards and still earn math credit. These were j ust two of the many things students did in the new probability course taught by Mr. Richard Strauz. The Advanced Placement course, taught by Mrs. Sue Shultz was in full swing. Stu- dents who took Advanced Geometry in their sophomore year will be able to take calculus in their senior year. This will allow the faster math students to get into more advanced math than other Harrison stu- dents. For the first time trigonometry was offered separately from Algebra II. This gave students who took Algebra II for a full year, a chance to take trigonometry. Math Department head, Mr. Roy Bir- mingham, said, HThe main goals of the Math Department are to prepare non-col- lege-bound students with enough under- standing of math to cope with the problems of everyday life. For those college-bound students we tr to give them a higher understandingo math?