Jonathan Alder High School - Power Horn Yearbook (Plain City, OH)

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- - Curriculum - “It’s a great day to be here!” Education has taken a giant step forward since the days of tin lunch buckets and tiny one room classrooms. The Alder curriculum gives the experience and knowledge needed to make it in the real world. The math department is not only able to add and subtract, but pro- duce Syntax errors and logarithmic functions. The science program does everything from cooking hot dogs with solar ovens to dissecting pig hearts and cats while simulations, mock elections, and time cap- sules add an exciting twist to the social studies department. A newspaper and Huck Finn Day are produced within the English pro- gram while business and Home Economics give students a look into the future. Art, music, industrial arts, and VoAg give those with creative minds and special talents an outlet during the day. Opening 7

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 People Bo The Craziest Things” The friendships we form during high school are probably some of the strongest we will make. We have laughed together, cried together, and at one time or another been either the best of friends or the worst of enemies. As freshmen, we enter high school terrified of initiation and too frightened to talk to anyone. When our sophomore year rolls around we get our class rings and finally feel as though we are a “somebody. Being a junior we find out how to spend an entire class period “in the office.” But being a senior is the ultimate. We find the importance of sticking together through the good, the bad, the calm, and the crazy. Walking through the halls of JA, one is sure to note — “People do the craziest things. Opening 9