Mother of Mercy High School - Mercywood Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Develop Mathematical M inds Would you believe Sister Barbarann got an algebra book for Christmas! Teacher of math and science and moderator ofthe Mu Alpha Theta Club, Sister Domitilla is kept busy. Marcia Schulte and Kathy Jones, oHicers of the math club, caught Sister free. 23

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Evaluations, Calculations, Estimation: After lwn hours and twenty-thrce and nneehalf minutes of Figuring. Marv Arm Bennett has decided to put nHilhut problem until mmurrmv. While Bcv Klug does all the work, Mrs. Scibel and Denise Srhinner act as supervisors, offering some helpful suggestions. 22 Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid, Thales, and Plato all speak in a language oftheir own. Their commuw nication is through mathematics. Mercians are learning to speak this language by the study of Al- gebra I and II, plane, solid, and analytic geometry, and trigonometry Freshmen enter into this field with Algebra I. First year students, under the in- struction of Sister Barbarann, hear of the equation for the first time and learn to understand its numern ous and complicated functions. Sophomores learn how true Plato was when he said, uGod eternally geometrizesfl Memorization 0f theorems and pos- tulates is stressed by geometry teachers, Mrs. Seibel and Sister Francine, Juniors go further into the study of exponents, discovering logarithms for the first time. Teaching this course are math scholars, Sisters Domitilla and Mrs. Seibel. For the Hrls who wish to advance even more in the mathematics Held, trigonometry is offered to the seniors. Newer books this year bring this modern held even more up-to- date. One of the pmjerts 0f the National Honor Sneiety is tutoring, Senior Mary Ann Klnpp helps freshmen Patricia chze. Tame Carr. and Elaine Wuod in the morning before school with Algebra I.

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Student Scientists Advance Through Hypoplasia, heteromorphy, protoplasm, dissection, electrolysis, equilibrium. These arejust a few of the many terms bubbling in the Bunsen burner minds of our scientists. Science is moving ahead by leaps and bounds, and Mercy is moving along with it, From the general science courses of the freshmen to the senioris advanced courses, the students are disci- plined by the order of natureis laws. Sister Elise prepares the freshmen for their later and deeper inquiries into science in a introduction course, Sophomores, under Sister joseph and Sister Elise, learn the fundamentals of life and living organisms. In the chemistry lab Sister Francella reigns su- preme as herjuniors experiment with the composi- tion of matter. Upperclassmen are offered for the First time advanced biology, in which they delve into the study of life. Others discover the phenomena associated with matter and energy Although the girls are capable, and anxious to prove themselves, the wise teachers caution girls before they plunge into the misty realms of the unknown. Sister Domi- tilla rules the physicists. htIf you canit answer this question, I shall dissect you, threatens Miss Ott, biology leacher, to hcr one daring student. uKeep pouring? repliesjzmct Giliz m Elaine Huh, it can't blow up! From their smiles it seems thejuniors are mnmuting something other than what was assigned by Sister FranceHa. Now we know where the dessert for the pre- Prom luncheon came from. 1 , . e '9' w JOIODIMIVJ Jill Jiffy; w! 35' AV7'3' MJJJMJ Mmfwtf L 1 NJ 7 ,QA'JX IWQIA .3 awzzxm, b4 ,j