Lawrence High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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MAT HEM A TICS Variety of Courses for Mathematical Students MATHEMATICS students at LHS chose from a wide variety of subjects. Sophomores and juniors took geometry and algebra while the seniors chose from a combination of statistics and triginometry or calculus and analytical geometry. Students could earn college credit for the latter courses. Each year several of our students qualify for the summer courses at Kansas University. This gives them a chance to take courses not usually available to high schoolers. Hooray! It's National Algebra Teacher’s Day reads the blackboard in Mrs. Shana'a's class. Larry Brickner finds working at the board helpful in doing his trigonometry problems. Much of the work in geometry class is done at the blackboard. RED G BLACK assistant editor Henry Person checks up on our photo- grapher as other mem- bers of the calculus class work on their studies. 21

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SCIENCE New Labs and Classes for Science Department Students in Mr. Roth's advanced biology class dissect fetal pigs in their laboratory class. Don Rogers, LHS physics teacher, had to look at almost Juniors in Eri's second hour chemistry class work all boys throughout the year since very few girls enrolled to find their unkown solutions during lab. for the class. SCIENCE at LHS this year found many changes and improvements. The biology field trips were slight- ly altered this year due to the large amount of snow. Many students par- ticipated in the few that were held, how- ever. An advanced biology class was held by Mr. Roth for the first time and Mr. Watson taught a new class called BSCS, Biological Society for Curriculum Studies. Everything was new in the chemistry classes this year. New, modern rooms and lab equipment were furnished in the new addition. New textbooks were also used. There was one regretted change-- the announced retirement of Eri Wood, a long-time LHS favorite. Physics classes were basically the same this year. The subject is becom- ing gradually more popular among the girls but there were still only two or three of the fair sex in each class. 20

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SOCIAL STUDIES Team Teaching Introduced at Lawrence High Mr. Mullins takes over as team-teacher for the week. He shared this duty with Miss Calahan and Mr. Mehlinger. This gave the students a change of opinions as well as a change of faces. Discussion groups were an important part of the China and Japan modem history class. But Pete Argersinger seems bored with it all as Tim Sommerville speaks on the day's topic. Room displays are of interest and benefit to world history students. SOCIAL STUDIES at LHS this year met with change and improvement. Team- teaching, a new concept at Lawrence, was held in the new lecture room. The success of the history team-teachers prompted the government teachers to try the method second semester. A class on the history of China and Japan was taught once again by Mr. Mehlinger. This class is an advanced idea for the high school level and was one of the most popular courses offered.