Montgomery High School - Valhal Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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APPLICATION OF CHEMICAL FORMULAS is the basis of lab- oratory procedure. Chemistry students of Mr. Ralph Guyon, Spencer Hinkle and Barbara Woolery, are conducting an experi- ment on the filtration and distillation of water. THIS LITTLE PIGGIE WENT TO MARKET ... Mr. Michael MacDonald discusses the bone structure of the human anatomy with biology students, left to right, Margaret Pippin, John Jennings, Mike Felciano, and Mary Sondergaard. AN EXPERIMENT ON MECHANICAL AD- VANTAGE is conducted by four of Mr.Horace LeIand's physics students. Prentice O'Leary sets up the pulley system and Judy Radu measures the mass of the weights to be used while Jack Levar and Ron Clark record the necessary data. 63 READING, LECTURE, LAB - HEART OF MHS SCIENCE CLASSES Three maior areas of laboratory science areoffered at Montgomery High School: biology, the study of plant and animal life, chemistry, the study of the composition and reactions of substances, and physics, the study of the phy- sical changes and forces in nature as opposed to the chemi- cal forces. Of equal importance with classroom lectures and out- side reading is laboratory procedure in each of these sciences. One learns by doing, and the science department feels that if a student is able to perform an experiment on his own, if he is able to set up the apparatus involved and observe what is taking place by himself, the experience and understanding he gains is measureless. A laboratory notebook is required of all chemistry stu- dents. ln this notebook iskept an accurate record of all experiments performed in class, stating the purpose of the experiment, the procedure in performing it, and the end re- sults. Mathematical calculations are also included, and a final conclusion is written by the student himself. Another important requirement in all three science classes is an individual proiect submitted by each student. The student must plan the project himself, submit a plan for carrying it out to the instructor, and when hehas assembled it or carried out the necessary operations, make a report. The proiect is then evaluated as part of the semester grade. This year an experimental biology class was con- ducted in which the students, instead of beginning with the simplest forms of plant and animal life and tracing de- velopment to the most complex life, studied the life func- tions which all living things have in common, and compared and contrasted the systems, first in plant life, then in animal life. The science department believes that regardless of whether or not a student plans a career in science, a basic knowledge of science is essential to intelligent everyday living. The department urges that all students consider at least two courses in science.

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FRENCH SPANISH LATIN OFFERED AT MHS -CQ--M Q.: FLAVOR OF NATIVE PRONOUNCI ATION IS given by lsrael Lemus a member of Mr Richard Moore s Span rsh class as he reads aloud from a Spanish text Israel came to MHS from Mexico early In the school year SECOND-YEAR FRENCH STU- DENTS Mary Nelligan Judy Radu and Rita Middleton test their reading and listening comprehension of the language as well as their pronoun- ciation by means ofa tape recorder.