Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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math students are concerned with facts and figures An opague projector assists Mr. Yeoman in explaining geometry. Mr. Hutchison’s class listens as he illustrates concept of math. Mr. Rainford grades tests of Algebra II students. “New Math” can be effective- ly used to describe the math de- partment of Merrillville. The whole department is a filled set. Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II, and senior math can all be considered sub-sets. This year two sub-sets were added to this rapidly growing set, calculus and probability and sta- tistics. The courses or sub-sets are further divided into units, each composing one semester. All of its sub-sets this year have gotten new textbooks. The union of these sub-sets is our ever-growing Math Depart- ment, which is surely not an empty set. 20

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A strong interest in art holds student’s attention. art develops talent and imagination Students paint scenes with water colors. This year the art students decorated the windows using the theme “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Art is offered for four years at Merrillville. Students learn the basic concepts of design and sketching faces and scenes. In their third and fourth years, the students are able to choose individual projects. The majority of the students prefer to do oil paintings. Each year many students en- ter the National Scholastic Art Awards. Many divisions are in- cluded such as oil painting, pencil sketches, water colors, and col- lages. The art students contribute to the school by decorating dur- ing the Christmas season. 19

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Mr. Vermillion uses model to explain principles to phy- sics class. Biology students do research on mice. 21 physical and biological sciences are challenging Interested chemistry students listen to lec- ture attentively. Delving into the scientific world can be fun as well as in- teresting. Biology students explore the marvels of life from the smallest micro-organism to the most ad- vanced creature, man. Through- out the year they dissect crayfish, worms, fish, and frogs to the dis- may of many girls. Boiling, bubbling, frizzing, foaming, steaming, and explod- ing describe the many experi- ments performed by chemistry students. The experiments are done as a supplement to their book. Watching a flame through a spectroscope is one of the many experiments done by the Physics classes. An experiment is done to help the students understand the principle by actually viewing the procedure and results.