John Adams High School - Album Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Science students learn by experimenting. Which is the yellow-bellied sapsucker? asks Mr. Litweiler, head of the biology department. His students can identif Armed with butterfly nets, biologists hunted insects, they made leaf collections also. Advanced students studied bacteria. Chemists collected oxy- gen from H20 in the lab with the help of witty Mr. Reber. Mr. Cussens' chemists waited impa- tiently for their laboratory. It was completed as a late Christmas present and was put to immediate use. If Adams builds a bridge, physics students will determine the expansion and contraction which will result from temperature changes. Health classes discovered how to avoid disease after studying the body. A first aid course tied them up as they practiced bandaging one another. Y eighty birds. A shortage of scientists magnified by the race to the moon has affected science at Adams. All students are encouraged to take science courses and to examine the whys of the world about them. w . 5 5 A serious demonstration arouses the laughter of a health class. Don Hile stimulates breathing with the back-press, arm-lift method. Bottles, burners, tubes, and cylinders amaze two chemistry Physics students experiment with weights and measures in students eager to use the new equipment. 4 their new laboratory'

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These tools are necessary to solve mathematical problems. Math students lear Mathematics teaches students to think clearly and reason logically. Math helps prepare students for college, careers, and everyday living. Other departments require its use. Correct measurements are essential to shop, science, and home ec stu- dents. Remedial math is taken by students who have weak foundations. They review basic arithmetic and work practical problems. x + 12 I 34 is simple algebra but the problems quickly get tougher. Students solve for X or Y, struggle with graphs, and factor equations. Triangles, correllaries, theor- sms, and Mr. Schwanz's colored designs introduce Jlane geometry. Congruent, parallel are common I1 to reason logically. terms to sophomores. Moving up, students with numerical ability continue to study algebra. Some take solid geo- metry and think in 3 D in trigonometry, they figure the height of water towers, navigate ships by the stars, and survey property by using the six functions of right triangles. Analytic students find equations from charts. Working to gain advanced placement in col- lege classes, six senior mathematicians studied calculus. Mr. Weir, head of the math department, taught them during home room period two days a week. They received no credit for their work. Parallel H1195 solve triangle Pwblems fm' the Eeometw stu' 3rd year math student Bill Brooke finds the division problem :lents who listen to Kathy Miller's explanation of Corollary I. simple as he demonstrates the slide rule, 5