Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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One of the orchestra en- sembles practices string tech- niques. Their instruments con- sist of viola, cello, and violin played by Joy Lee Wright, Florence Sprague, and Viola Russell. They perform for such special assemblies as those put on by Girls' League and or- chestra. Woodwind quintet, a group of five band members, meets with Mr. Mirick for special in- struction. The quintet includes Alexa Hibhard, Carl Shonk, Glen Peterson, Shirley Lynch, and Bill McKinley. It is made up of the unusual instruments of the band, the bassoon, oboe, and flute, and French horn and clarinet. The five play chamber music. .Zu J, If its success you crave for your next dance lust call for Ronnie Wolffs swing band and the crowds will swarm in and will stay until the last number is finished. Always ready and willing to perform, they play such numbers as the mellow Ruby and the exhausting Bunny Hop. Mem- bers of this band include Kay Williams with his cornet, Jerry Johnson at the drums, Ronnie and his saxophone, Roger Hunteman and his trom- bone, and, not shown here, Betty Hawkins, pie anist.

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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.

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What a lot of machine to level a hunk of metal! exclaims Lloyd Hart to John Lisac. Lloyd is making a dolly.' For anyone who doesn't have the mechanical language firm- ly imbedded in his head, a dolly is a little gadget used to take the dents of of fenders. In machine shop the boys make everything from saws to machine tools for their ialopies, psy' iwyg. of the shop's power tools. taught by Mr. Mentzer. Wilbur Friend is shown using one An architect must be exact in his thinking and precise with figures and lines. In case you don't know what an architect is, he is a person who plans all types of buildings from dog houses to skyscrapers, from roof to foundation. Duane Boyd is shown making his plans for a model home Architectural drawing is one of the excellent vocation training classes