Lincoln High School - Links Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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Qs til' , Isl President of the Lincoln Teachers Association, MISS MILDRED WAIDE, mathematics teacher -' I and financial adviser for all school publications, works with two business managers, Sandra Lichten' berg and Ross McGlasson. Something is amusing about those oddfshaped blocks of cardboard, a few of the objects MISS RUTH HALL and MISS EDITH ELLIS use to teach their geometry classes. An expert in conic sections, MISS IOSEPHINE WIBLE, chairman of the Mathematics Department, shows how she demonstrates to her classes Page I4 I Pausing to accommodate our photographer before she starts another busy day is MISS GRACE McMAI'ION, math' ematics teacher. MATHEMATICS ALGEBRA . . . GEOMETRY . . . CONSUMER AND GENERAL MATI-IEMATICS. .TRIGONOMETRY SOLID GEOMETRY There's no getting around it. Our good training in mathematics is neces- sary is we ever hope to be able to balance our budgets, manage our al- lowances, and pass those college schol- arship and entrance examinations! Elf TJ. S Pupils in the mathematics classes of MISS FRANCES BUELL and MRS. LILLIAN THOMPSON are shown these magazine materials, This encourages applying mathef matics in the scientific field of study. MRS. LAVINA DVORAK, driver training instructor, questions LTLE WEYAND, basketball coach, about the prospects for a 1956 basketball championship. Both are also teachers in the Mathematics Department.

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DEPARTMENT ... PSYCHOLOGY . . . WORLD HISTORY TIONAL RELATIONS Then, too, by studying our own govern- ment and history, we develop a lceen appre- ciation of our blessings in a democracy. With this feeling, we shall be better able BUFORD GROSSCUP and HAROLD SCOTT refer to a book to answer a question asked by George Porter. Both of these history teachers also have coach' ing responsibilities, ...namw Looking up from the paper she is check' ing, MRS. IRMA COOMBS, a cheer' leader sponsor and history teacher, greets our Links photographer. to defend our country. Study of the indi- vidual is also imporiani, for our nation will only be as strong as the people in it. Map reading and interpetation are important parts of any history course, as MISS WILHELMINA JOHNSON, County Day sponsor, knows. i i',,.,'i 8 MISS FLORENCE IENKINS, Student Council sponsor, and WILLIAM PFEIFF, Links football coach, check movie schedules for their history classes. Reguf larly they see the Newsmagazine of the Screen, a hlrn reviewing the last month's news events. Page 13

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Examinina a s lint are CARL O MISS HELENE SCHEMEL, sci' MANTHET, science teacher, and The structure of the atom is a ence teacher, looks over a model MRS. ALICE TOUNGSCAP, very important basic principle of of the heart before she demon' school nurse. Mr. Manthey is the nature, which LEROT COL' strates to one of her health edu' local American Red Cross county SON, tennis coach, teaches his cation classes. chairman. chemistry classes. SCIENCE BIOLOGY . . . PHYSIOLOGY . . PI-IYSICS . . . CHEMISTRY . . I-IEALTI-I EDUCATION WiTh many unusual TacTs abouT leaves, hearTs, elecTriciTy, ancl I-IZO To Teach us. science is indeed a Tasci- naTinq Tielcl OT sTucly. Even To The sTu- denT noT planning a scienTiTic career, This Training is valuable in helping him To undersTand The phenomena OT The world and in meeTinq unexpecTed emer- gencies. R. W. HOWLAND and DONOVAN LUEDKE, science teachers, examine an oscilloscope, which shows changes in an electric wave by means of a wavy line pro' duced on the fluorescent screen. Fi jUl,lUS D. YOUNG, chairman of the Science Dee partment, shows Silvija Liepnielqs and Dixie Hilvherl how the Geiger Counter works. MISS LUCY GEIGER and MRS. GLADTS TEMPLE examine a plant which is grown in the greenhouse for demonstrations in their biology classes. QMS Fiwfr