Maumee Valley Country Day High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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MATHEMATICS To some people it's a straight line to perfection cmd others go around in a circle Cpi DD all year long. Whichever the case, Mr. Iohnson's math course will teach the girls to figure their grocery bills and the boys, their income taxes. In algebra you learn that the unknown, X, can equal almost anything. You Work with fascinating things such as logarithms and imaginary numbers. In geometry you find that a circle does have dimensions and there is such a thing as a dodecagon. Psychologists say that the study of mathematics develops your personality. Math with Mr. Iohnson must be very potent because he also teaches the psychology course. There you delve into the reasons that make you tick mentally and physically

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LATI Perhaps the fact that Latin I is held first period this year accounts for an occasional snore emanating from this class. At times we are prevailed upon to conjugate tor is it decline?l a noun. Latin is far from a dead language-especially if you can make puns in it as Miss Wolcott can. She somehow does instil life into our Latin, and We even have fun seeing who will get nauta, ae Ksailorl, or an unpronounceable Word to which someone invari- ably qives a French accent. In an English vocabulary test, when We don't know a Word, We look a second time, then nod wisely and say, Ah yes, a Latin derivative.

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MUSIC Wednesday afternoons, the tune Smoke Gets In Your Eyes gets in everybody's ears as the chorus harmonizeslwith Miss Davis's help. When we want to celebrate a holiday or give a Christmas program, red. In the morning the d learning rhythrnics and trotting to their piano the chorus is always prepa little children may be foun ' ing their favorite songs or sing ' ' ' h d under their arms. lessons with their mus1c clinc e tm 5' Agia '5