JEB Stuart High School - Sabre Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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23 □ Row 1: Mrs. Uphoff, Copt. Rice. Row 2: Mr. Whoolery, Mrs. Holdt, Col. Huggins, Col. Cralle, Miss L. Matney, Mrs. Garrison, Mrs. Hammond, Mr. R. E. Davis. MATHEMATICS A be-spectacled boy, muttering “f(c)=f(x-h)— f(x) f(h)”, disappears into room 219. Seconds later, an ecstatic girl rushes into the same room exclaiming that she finally understands the Mean Value Theorem. The bell rings, and Capt. Rice resumes command of Stuart’s first Advanced Placement Calculus class. After nine months of classes beginning in a similar way, the students in this college freshman course were in “ship¬ shape” condition for the spring A.P. exam. The math whizzes who did well on this exam were enabled to take higher math courses in college. Other new additions to J.E.B. Stuart’s Math Department included the math laboratory in the new wing, and two new teachers. Fairfax County gave Stuart the laboratory, which has extra large desks and an opaque projector. The new faces belonged to Mrs. Isakov, who is from Yugoslavia, and Mr. Cataldo, who taught chemistry here last year. Mr. Whoolery: Doorway to learning. Mr. Stratton: Disbelief. FACULTY

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FACULTY □ 22 Row 1: Miss Barrett, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Newman, Mrs. Holt. Row 2: Miss Mrs. Holt. Schlinke, Mrs. Bradley, Miss Isakov, Mr. Ward, Mrs. Sidpice, Commander Ervin, Mrs. Condit. Commander Ervin. FOREIGN LANGUAGE A new sound echoes from the Foreign Language Department: Portuguese! Following a precedent set by last year’s Russian I class, Portuguese was offered during lunch study halls by Commander Ervin for Spanish students. The similarity of these two languages enables students to comprehend them quickly. Portuguese was certainly not the only addition to the department. Along with a new department head, Commander Ervin, the Foreign Language Department was supplemented by Mrs. Isakov and Miss Schlinke. Both teachers are native to their respective languages, a fact which students found to be a real asset in perfecting their accents. Mrs. Isakov, born in Yugoslavia and educated at the Russian Institute of Dartmouth College, teaches Russian I and the first Russian II class. Miss Schlinke, a West Berlin German teacher, is part of an exchange teacher program sponsored by Antioch College in Ohio. Catalyst for efficiency: the IBM. 1 1

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FACULTY □ 24 SCIENCE ! Miss Shugrou. Row 1: Mrs. Steele, Miss Shugrou, Mrs. Beym. Row 2: Miss McDurmott, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Cataldo, Mr. Benton, Mr. Woody. “Two plus two does not equal four.” What? Chem-Study rooms 237 and 212 are, perhaps, the only places in the world where this is true, as Mr. Benton or Miss McDermott will happily explain. “Two moles of hydrogen plus two moles of oxygen will give you two moles of water.” But the courageous Chemistry student does not let this new concept in arithmetic discourage him, and he successfully plods through the year balancing equations, forming silver nitrate compounds, and lighting candles. With the addition of the new science wing, bigger and better lab equipment was made available. To the regular curriculum of Earth Science, BSCS Biology, and Chem-Study, it was also possible this year to add an Advanced Placement Chemistry class. Although the response was not immense (eight students), Mr. Benton, the instructor, is hopeful that this class will become one of the most popular science courses. Precision work by the human hand. Linder observation. Mrs. Beym and Mrs. Steele: Biology in action