Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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Friends, R o m a n s, Countryrnen, l e n d me your ears till Saturday night. - Hey this is fun! exclairns Tom Daniel Webster Gail as he polishes up a lit- tle on his gestures. Speech work takes lots of practice but the stu- dents know how to han- dle thernselves w h e n called upon. +2 Uldiosyncrasy-What a word! comments Chuck Case as Nancy McKewon takes down the definition. HOW TO USE THE LIBRARY PROPERLY was a proiect of the English De- partment this year. Classes went one by one to the library to learn the proper rnethod of using the card catalogue, Readers' Guide, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. All the Sen- ior English classes wrote research papers based on work done in the library. QQ b A I , i, W i.,,,.?,,w -, ' ff' .312 ,222 fi asf Mfr , U lnfirm ot purpose' Give me the daggers The sleeping and the dead a but as pictures Tis the eye ot hood that tears a pa nt devil Pat Fraase as Lady Macbeth and Doug Culy as Macbeth, su- dents in Miss Willers first period English class, drarnatze a scene from Shakespeare.

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new Dinah Hutchison and Barbara Gor- don hear some of the Spanish rec- ords that will be played in class To further The students' knowledge ot Spanish background. In any of The three class levels students speak Spanish instead of English a good share ofthe time. vm-W f Noel Noel. Three French carolers step down from a Christmas card to sing The famous old song. Elaine Williams leads as Shirley Lynch and Carl Gordon come in on the harmony. Elaine and Shirley are second year students, Carl first year. The French classes have organized a club, Le Rendez-Vous Francais. To receive an award pin one must be a member of The French class, have a B average, and contribute some constructive project to promote The learning of French cus- Toms. ln class students have regular oral assignments in which They carry on conversations in French. Here also They present their proiects to benefit the entire class. Advanced Latin students Doug Culy, Dotty McGraw, Dotty Rhymes, locate Troy and Carthage on a map of the ancient world as they work on the historical background of Virgil's AENEID. Even today lines tom the AENEID are quoted, Dux temina facti - there's a woman in the case. 4-wr'

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Physics is the biggest challenge to the hopeful scientist. Ron Wolff and Jim Perry compute the movement of a force from a complicated looking device composed of meter stick, weights, and spring balances. Ron sets the weights and Jim derives the answer from his trusty slide rule. Mr. Johnston has a large bag full of toys with which he illustrates the physical principles. Included are five little pendulums and a toy car that shoots and retrieves a marble without stopping. Physics: a fascinating subiect and a more fascinating in- structor! The first of the laboratory sciences is chem- istry in which students are taught the composi- tion of many substances. These substances are broken down into their various elements by tests involving basic c h e m ic al and mathematical weighing. Jack Findley analyzes the contents of one of Mr. Berg's little specimen bottles. The scale with which Jack is working is ultra sensi- tive and must be housed in a glass case to keep dust and lint fom upsetting its balance. 332- hail... - -3, on ig-Nili Let me see now. The absence of sun- light on the leaf of a spermatophyte hin- ders the production of chlorophyll, thus making the covered leaves turn white. Dave Bosworth and Jane Bash discover the wonders of biology. What makes plants green? Why is blood red? Why are oys- ters called bivalves? In biology, a student becomes suddenly aware of the myriads of tiny plants and animals whose import- ance in daily life he has never dreamed before.