Milan High School - Rebus Yearbook (Milan, IN)

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The Past is Important to Our Future Just about anything from the con- quering of the Aztecs to the assassina- tion attempt on President Reagan were the main topics of our Jr. High through Sr. High social studies discussions. Besides discussion in class, social studies was taught as a learning and a making experience. The junior high stu- dents had projects assigned to them by Mr. Huffman. These assignments con- sisted of making things such as scale model double winged airplanes, string art and Indian weaving. Mr. Thomas, the new Government teacher, also helped keep his students busy with working on tax forms, book work and telling the latest new jokes. Picture yourself seated at a German music concert in Cincinnati, or at a table of a German restaurant in Olden- burg, ready to embark on a taste bud's delight consisting of such dishes as steaming apple strudel!, a chocolate torte, and many other things that are hard even for the German student to pronounce. And where else would you find stu- dents writing children’s books in their studied language but in Mr. Hornbach's Spanish class. Even with all these exciting and inter- esting foreign languages to learn, strangely enough our English teachers Mr. Adams, Mr. Droege, Mr. Hornbach, and Mrs. Mix find that many of our stu- dents still need to concentrate on mas- tering the English language. (p.20) TOP: English demands a very quiet atmos- phere for Sherri Purcell. BOTTOM RIGHT: With the look of determination, Greg Anderson scribbles out his history assign- ments. (p.21) TOP LEFT: Going over German is what Ted Amberger calls serious business. BOTTOM RIGHT: Grade Spurlock has one last look before she hands in her communications assignment. 21

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Experiments in Numbers E = mc2? Albert Einstein said that?” “We’ll start dissecting frogs tomor- row. and This Friday, we'll have a test over Chapter 6. —were sentences that brought thoughts of bewilderment, nausea, and fear to the minds of many students in the science courses. Advanced biology, taught by Mr. Gutz- willer, took a field trip to Eli Lilly. Most students found it interesting and a chance to get away from the usual grind of class work. What’s that smell? It smells like rot- ten eggs. Whenever you heard this coming from the mouths of our students everyone knew the chemistry class was up to another one of their experiments. Do you understand this? I don’t. was something that might have been heard from a first year algebra student while he or she tried to do his or her homework. Another famous line was “x + 8x + 15=(x + 3)(x+5). So (x + 3)(x + 5) = 0. What’s that, some kind of foreign language? In addition to working math prob- lems, students learned to enjoy such things, as, how to fill out income tax forms and how to construct art with a compass. Teachers, Mr. White, Mrs. Hall and Mr. Horton decided it would be best to stick close to the basics this year. (pg.22) TOP: Fetus pigs aren’t really that bad! comments Billie Jo Kraus. BOTTOM LEFT: Absorbing it all, Tracey Howard listens to the instructions for her homework assignment. BOTTOM RIGHT: Terri Cottingham studies the for- mulas for her next test in geometry. TOP: Brent Holt and Terri Cottingham check out their next assignment for chemisttry. MIDDLE LEFT: Albert King listens closely to Mr. White as he explains the physics instructions con- cerning sound tones. MIDDLE RIGHT: One of the projects Anita Maher is doing in geometry class involves circumference and area of circles. BOTTOM RIGHT: While doing an experiment Mark Goedl and Greg Carleton follow their instructions carefully. 23