Miami Palmetto High School - Palm Echo Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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E. Delchamps P. Everett Q85 N KW X my -A X ,L'1 5 gg.g I gL-g L 5' N , Q, -+ W Ja' W X' , E. Seegers F. Smith W. Spring J. Wayne Mrs. Priscilla Everett wrings her hands as she and Pat Parham eye a chemist? mixing explosive liquids. 56 science ff S. Martinez D. Miller K. Schmick X s 5 .., 1 ig if 5 E .5 fx Q t .55 5 -:S-sg 1.h?'::?3?.':Iff-' f 3 X X xN if '- Mr. Errol Seegers slurps, sips, smacks, saturates, slobbers, and generally savors l last lifesaver toward the close of an especially exhausting day of biology cla:

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,taxi , NS, v,.kv.. 1, L , NAS I Q f 'Start the bubble machine. On the count of three we will take it from the top. llr, Joseph Canida explains the postulates of geometry with the aid of a baton. Mathematics Take an empty room. Add thirty desks and fill them with people. Insert pencils, paper, slide rules, ach- ing fingers, and emotional frustration. Sumrmath. Sixty plus nine-a problem to set the mind racing. Nothing compared to those tackled by advanced placement calculus students, though. Whee. Lower phase pupils were assigned to the self- instruction center, where they were treated to a complete set of prepared transparencies. The ol' 600-wing overflowed. Junior mathema- ticians cropped up in the cafeteria, drama class- room, curriculum complex, and chemistry labs. Did Einstein have to contend with crumbs and spilled acid? Ah, the joy of triumph over adversity. B. Williams L. Woodward John Bivens looks on as he introduces one of his multi-complex problems to enthusiastic sophomore S. Lewis. mathematics 55

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bubble, toil and trouble.. ,,....,.,..,.... Oops. Watch out. Mrs. DelChamps supervises Debbie Bostran's filtration experiment. Gulp. ,J Science Mark Kuperman TV Biology Sept. 3, 1968 Classroom teacher-Mr. Chambers IBM number-O07 Seat-Center, J, 118 Electrographic pencils weren't needed in the two television sections of biology. Just determination to be in the right place. Ho hum. English or biology today? A complicated set up of alternating English-biol- ogy classes enabled students to have class in the auditorium and small classroom. Confusion intensi- fied. For the first time, only phase three and four classes participated in telelessons. Biology phases one, two, and five found themselves in five-day-a- week classes. Life. Death. And on. By a heartbeat, science moved on. Out to help win the race, 11 students concentrated on advanced scientific study. Whether working with a veterinarian at Crandon Park or spending time at the UM computer center, students went scientifically professional for two hours a day. White rabbit? Slimy frog? Sleek cat? Or Reggie, fictional dinosaur cooked up by Department Head Errol Seegers? No time for toying around. Courses crammed with statistics were phased classes in bi- ology ll, chemistry, and physics. You know how it is. I coulda sworn there were only two. Mrs. Ferris shows Brad McMorris and Mike Kantor biology basics. science 57