Moline High School - M Yearbook (Moline, IL)

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Girls ' Physics Class Initiated This Year The mathematics department offered a new geometry course which emphasized understanding to gain correct reasoning. Proofs were taken up after the student com- pletely understood all Set terminology and definitions. This led to less confusion with proofs later in the year. The department is discussing plans for a math labora- tory, a place where students could get actual experience in mathematics. Basic math, algebra, and geometry gave the student a solid background in math, important to his future career in and out of college. This year the science department offered an experi- mental physics class for junior girls only. During the year four women physicists came to lecture to the class, the only one of its kind in the nation. Its purpose is to interest more girls in physics as a career. Biology students explored life from the microscopic DNA molecule to the complex human body. Lab experiments helped chemistry students to under- stand the structure of the atom. Using the giant Pepsi bottle to spark donations. Mr Bushman en- courages Kris Braatelien to give in the early Share Joys campaign conducted by the chemistry and physics classes. Fritz Boom Mathematics Milton Hagberg Mathematics Gary Bushman Science Orville Harkey Mathematics Dennis Davis Science George Hart Science Donald Fentem Science Dolores Hulse Science Gene Flesner Mathematics Phyllis Johnson Mathematics F. Darrell Goar Science Vivian Jones Mathematics 18

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Self-Expression Through Composition Under the supervision of Mr John Adam, head of the department of English and speech, the English curricu- lum was revised to update course description and goals and to aid incoming teachers. In order to stress reading, units in individual reading were conducted by some English teachers. New choices for study of the novel were Joseph Andrews, April Morning, Travels With Charlie, and A Separate Peace. With a demand for more speech courses, the curricu- lum was enlarged to include Basic Speech, Public Speaking, Oral Interpretation and Acting, and Argu- mentation and Debate. Oral English was condensed from a weekly course to three consecutive weeks, in which the honors and journalism classes also partici- pated. The music department also had some revision. Mr. Calvin Hedegaard took over as the new director of concert and acapella choir. Mr. L. H Dilulio and Mr. Merle Wegener directed the creation of new marching routines for the half-time programs at football games at Browning Field. The band also obtained new uni- forms this year. Performing one of his many duties as department head, Mr. John Adam handles the distribution of paperback books Jennie Ellison English Judith Funk English Dorothy Larkin English Linda Mell English Virginia Moffitt English Barbara Neumann English Betty Roseberg English De Wayne Roush English Lucy Shaw go English Phvlita Shinneman English Mary Youngdahl English Karen Ziegler English 17

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John Julius Science Lavern Sinclair Science Richard Lewis Mathematics Darlene Strobbe Mathematics John Reakes Science Earl Wear Science Ruth Hicks watches English physics lecturer Miss Patricia Watson perform an experiment about rate of speed and angle of fall. College Courses Offered by Math Departmen Relaxing in the math depart- ment office, Mr Harkey, Mr. Flesner, Mr Lewis, Mr Hag- berg and Mrs. Strobbe discuss plans for the propose d mathe- matics lab in which students would gain active participa- tion in math. 19