Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Mr. Virmillion motivates his students with an experiment demonstrating the techniques of chemistry. Linda Milokavich and Barb Arnold work together as lab partners in a chemistry experiment. Mr. Drescher is working with two of his Biology I students. Wriggling, writhing creatures of the earth, the pungent odor of melting paradichlorobenzene (commonly known to the lay person as moth balls), bounc- ing ping pong balls these are all a part of the world of those eager aspirants of the physical and biological sciences. Those who have taken biology have experienced the frustrations of searching for insects and the thrill of observing microscopic forms of life. Through dis- secting various animals, students get a first-hand view of the complexities of that mysterious thing called life. Test tubes, pipettes and graduated cylinders are all familiar tools to the chemistry student. Throughout the year, he is given the opportunity to explore the properties of matter through various experiments. Studies of weight and the acceleration of gravity occupy the time of physics students. Many interesting experiments are performed by them. The science faculty members (left to right) Mr. James Wagner, Mr. Miles Dunscombe, Mr. James Vermillion, (chairman), and Mr. George Drescher, discuss ordering new coats for working in their labs. 20

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Mr. Wooldridge gets a film ready for showing in a biology class. Jeff Haberstadt and Dale Andrews listen to tapes in A-V class. Mrs. Brunton stands with her book store help: (left to right) Jill Reformat, Shirley De Young, Billy Jo Greek and Carol Stowers. Sight and sound are the major means of communications of our times. The audio-visual department, headed by Mr. Velven Wooldridge, breaks the monotony of everyday class rooms by bringing movies, filmstrips and other sources of information to the students. Their collections of mechanical devices has brought direct eye contact to a math teacher and a student while one is working a prob- lem on the over-head projector. The same helpful device is used to aid a speech stu- dent using visual aids for his speech. Tapes of oral book reports and speeches make grading easier, and typing to music played on one of the A-V ' s record players is interesting and enjoyable. 19

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Mr. Gerald Rainford (chairman) explains the techniques of a mathematics teacher to the rest of the math department, (left to right) Mr. Miles Dunscombe, Mrs. Genevieve Wool- dridge, Mr. Lyle Stoelting, Mr. Max Hutchinson, Mr. Boyd Leoman. Mr. Hutchinson helps two of his geom- etry students with a difficult problem. Mr. Rainford is very emphatic about stressing that, Inch by inch math is a cinch. Mathematics is becoming a universal language. As our world becomes more complex and technical, math becomes a com- pelling force in the formation of a new society. Math is the queen of the sciences. Today as never before math is becoming important in the lives of everyone. Science plays a tremendous role in the development and in the solution of both peacetime and wartime problems of organization and production. Science is based on mathematics. This year 668 MHS students are enrolled in the various modern math courses offered. Their language is symbols. The structure of a cone Is explained by Mr. Yeoman to his geometry students. 21