Lamar High School - Orenda Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Clyde Boi-en, Margaret Buchanan, Opal Chase, Sarah Collins, Floyd Dougherty, Helen Earl, Louise Fuller, Mae Gates, Ella Mae Gehring, Rose Goodrich, Mary Knolle, Virginia Taylor. Not pictured: Alberta Brasher, La Faye Ford, Helen Greenwood, Hazelle McCarty, Drew Black Staggs. MFriends. Romans, Countrymenl Lend me your earslw .... MAy, tear her battered ensign down! Long has it waved on highw . . . HVVhan that Aprille with his shoures sootew .... Lamar's English students receive a well-rounded educa- tion in literature and grammar. In addition to a good foundation in the fundamentals, com- position and original thought are heavily stressed points of the English course. In the fine literature section, the student is introduced to a long list of great authors, from Chaucer to Lord Byron to Robert Frost. In both halves of the course, an attempt is made to bring out the individual personality of the student through the medium of speech and writing. Ben Orman, a member of the sophomore class, entertains Delores Anderson, Dan Bryan, and other classmates with records of Julius Caesar from the library. English literature students, Barbara Etchison, Rip Hitson, Lee Coleman, Harry Thomas, and Marianne Dittman get a first-hand View of a Shakespearean theater. .14-. Sydney Billingsley and Betty Templeton, outstanding members of the speech department, proudly show their sponsor, Mr. Dougherty, their newest trophies.

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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT - lbi VF-4ac y sw? X- Tl ---- A-'T .... The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two legs ...... Formulas and equations are old friends to Lamar's mathematics students. Under the capable instructions of an excellent teaching staff, the budding mathematician is offered a year of algebra, a year of plane geometry, and a semester each of solid geometry and of trigonom- etry, as well as several valuable courses in com- mercial arithmetic. In every subject, the curriculum is enlivened by the practical application of math- ematics to everyday life, and by graphical illustra- tions of cause and effect. Consequently, a greater interest in the exact sciences is aroused, even among those for whom the mysteries of Euclid hold no pleasure. It is the hope and aim of the mathematics department to develop the power of reasoning in each and every student. Watching Mr. Adams demonstrate a fact in commercial arithmetic are Barry Braden, Carol McKissick, and Barbara Franklin. ef, 1775! A rl? c If . 9251 45 X' - g I ' I ,,g,wE'VZ,, -J v,,',qa.s .11 .4-5, mice, Top row: Hazel Brinton, Thelma Hammerling, Esther McDaniel, Dorothy Phelps, Ella Porter. Bottom row: Maud Powell, Gladys Pushard, Lel Red, Mira Sanders, Frank Simmons. Not in picture: Edward Adams, Eleanor Mohr. -w Robin Isaacs carefully perfects his proof of a geometric theorem with Mrs. Sanders displays different types of geometric figures to Graeme the aid of Gayle Cutshall and Helen Lehmann. Baker, Virginia Hopkins, and other members of the class. .13.

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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The specific gravity of an object is equal to the weight of the object divided by the weight of an equal volume of water .... Na2CO:,+2HCl'Y 2NaCl+l-LO-l-CO2 .... The angiosperms are divided into two groups: monocotyledons and dicotyledons .... Who knows but that Lamar may be training some future Pasteur or Curie? In their classes of physics. chemistry, biology, and physiology, students learn the laws of nature, the science of movement, the structure of the body, and the divisions of animal life. The science courses are among the most popular in the school, and there are few students who do not avail themselves of the opportunity to learn 'lvvhat makes things tickf' It's not as complicated as it looks, says Mr. Gentry to Pat Staats and Larry Schmucker about the cathode-ray oscilloscope. Budding young chemists, Norman Hall, Roderick Molinaire, and Sandy Settegast eagerly observe the chemical neutraliza- tion of a base and an acid. Top Row: Laura Anderson, Ivan Collier. Middle Row: Calvin Gentry, Ned Gochenour, Florence Hicks. Bottom Row: Frances Hollingsworth, B. W. Kent, Edna Miner. Biology labs give Mary Ruth Sandel and John Ensle an opportunity to learn a little more from the charts and specimens. .15.