Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Computer training, a new phase of educational development stems from the addition of a GE time sharing computer in a corner of Memorial's Math Department. The terminal link-up was also shared by the Junior Class and the Science Department. Among this year's math credits were first and third place awards at Houston area tournaments. On a national scale six Memorial students rated 800 on the CEEB level ll math exams. Jon Richardson led the school in the National Math Exam. Meeting jointly with SAPS, Mu Alpha Theta the math club, sponsored speakers and reviewed a new geometry text book. Open to all those with at least a B average and an interest in math, members participated in the Carnival and attended the MAO regional meeting at Houston Baptist College. Academics-i 27

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Mrs. Linda Whitley and Mrs. Peggy Bradfield lrighti supervise while students Jon Richardson and Whit Matteson program Memorial's new computer. Miss Susan Logan Ibe- lowt exhibits a three dimensional cone to a geometry class. 126-Academics Mu Alpha Theta officers lrightt Patrice Amundsen, Secretaryg Cliff Siegel, Presidentf and Randy Morse, Vice-president coordinate MAO ac- tivities with SAPS activities. Se- cluded in upper blue ffar right! a student completes problems on a math make-up test.

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'i'W ? L, .L The smell of burning sulfur, or formaldehyde in the white wing was a strong reminder of the existence of the Science Department. First year Biology was a conglomeration of metabolism, bacteria and the terminology surrounding the many forms of life. Biology II students pursued the study of animal behavior and the effect of hormone injections on chickens. With the required Physical Science classes at ninth grade level, some students attended summer school in order to get in two years of both Chemistry and Physics. cultures A lecture by Dr. Bob Harris, a Houston heart transplant specialist, highlighted the activities of SAPS, the Scientific and Philosophical Society. 128-Academics Second year Biology student, Don- nie Block, fleftl tests effects of hormones on the development of baby chickens. 'Savage, a baby chicken, adopts Dede Murphy Ibe- lowj for his mother.