Hillcrest High School - Impact Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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M A T H C L U B In the past year the math club had held ings on Wednesday nights in Mr. Glover ' s roon meetings topics such as calculus, number systen Grade 13 problems. For a few months after Chi no meetings were held in order to allow membe study for the Senior Math exam. In all, the me were fairly experimenta l as there has not been Club for several years. ts meet- n. At the ns and ietings a Math ck Sain mVoni rnie Gei Glover Bill Noble, Willi Hopki Besides two excursions to the University of Ottawa and various field trips, we have worked with our rats and tortoise in room 234 with Mrs. Kasowsk Here we have disected fish, looked at larvae and pare mecia under microscopes and disected a rat under the expert guidance of Miss Podolsky. Our idea for an alligator did not work out too well as the only one who was convinced of the cute habits of this little animal was the author of this nar- rative . Thanks to all the teachers who to the success of this club. hav ntributed Anthropos the Greek word for man means he who looks up . We of the Astronomy Club, by looking up, try to discover some understanding of the universe and find meaning in our existence. We experience kin- ship with countless prehistoric herdsmen who meditated under the same stars, and with eternal avenues of light, time, space and the life we feel must exist elsewhere in the etherial void. Heaven puts on a free, endless pageant: to discover it, man must look up.

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AMATEUR RADIO CLUB The Amateur Radio Club has had a successful first year of operation . Many thanks are due to Mr . O 1 Re illy , a local ham , Mr. Hyde and Mr . Kembly for their hard work. The club had a successful display at the open house, which was enjoyed by many people . SPANISH CLUB BACK ROW: L. Mee, Barry — , J. Deavy, M. MacNaire. FRONT ROW: P. Ritchie, Miss B. Young, W. Havelock Mr. Hyde, Dave O ' Conner, Will Wood, Neil Whatmough, Alfred Paget, Dave Parks, Harold Peters. MISSING: Richard Barr, Mike Miskell . LATIN CLUB During the year the activities of the Latin Club have been interesting and varied. Three times a month meetings were held in the school with movies and talks given by members. Once a month a home meeting-party was held at which there were guest speakers, skits and quizzes on Tidbits of Antiquity .

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DRAMA EXECUTIVE FRONT ROW: Linda Rivington, Colin Foster, Cathy Evans. BACK ROW: Dan Kushner . MM DEBATING TEAMS FRONT ROW: Judi Rae, David Parkinson, Cathie Evans. BACK ROW: Ernie Jackson, Dan Cushner, Don Hyde, Colin Foster. REACH FOR THE TOP TEAM The Hillcrest Reach For The Top team has been doing quite well this year, with three games and no losses. By eliminating Nepean, St. Pat ' s Ottawa, and Elmwood, it has become top of its flight . Let ' s hope it keeps going! This year the team was chosen according to a definite master plan. Four staff members fired a barrage of ques- tions, dealing with a magnitude of sub- jects, at eligible volunteers. After two or three such sessions, the four finalists were chosen. The team members are David Parkinson, Shirley Ramsay, John Benoit and Bernie Geiger. John Benoit, Bernie Geiger, Shirley Ramsay, David Parkinson .