Muncie Central High School - Magician Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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Very interesting! At least zoology student Tim Freeman seems to think so. He is on an “inside tour of a very obliging rat (that’s the one on the table). Thinking it through. Miss Helen Morrison and math student Jenny Oliver work out the solution of one of those baffling things known as geometry problems. The Clink of Their Test Tubes and Slash Of Scalpels May Answer Another ‘Why?’ The weak stomached and the dislikers of probing into things (literally) should definitely not take zoology. Besides examining the interior of small dead animals, zoology students studied the human body, collected insects and worked on special projects. Plants caught the scientific eye also, as botany students observed the effects of lighting and temperature on greenery. The modern menace, radioactivity, was one subject covered in the physics classes. Physics pupils wrestled with mechanical mathematics problems and experimented with the whys of heat, light, sound and electricity. Meanwhile, chemistry students were studying chemical reactions and marveling (or cursing) over the atom. Trigonometry pupils, the mathematical wizards, tackled the practical functions of angles. 22 Mystery numbers are found by Mr. William Beuoy and physics student Elaine Russell. Wouldn’t it be fun to carry this “tiny” slide rule in your pocket?

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Field Trips and Demonstrations Add To Book-Type Facts of English Classes times by the students, attempting to glean the various philosophies hidden in the ’Bard of Avon’s” works. Creative ability (or just plain ham, really) was the keynote to success in the dramatics and speech classes. The pupils constructed model stage sets, and played Shakespeare, writing their own plays and skits. The inside story on how a newspaper and yearbook are painstakingly put together is told in the newswriting class. Students get a taste of the newspaper life themselves, receiving their own reporting beats concerning newsy functions of the school. New teaching recruits in the English Department this year were Mr. Morry Mannies and Mr. Max Kelley. Printing press operation is shown by Mr. Robert LeMaster, (second from left) and Trade School printing student Howard Clary (center) to three interested newswriting students Bev Morris, Janice Perry and John Mitchell. r ».

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Generating: electricity through their bodies, Richard Cecil (standing) and Tom Ross do a weird lighting experiment in physics class. A few years ago this would have been out of the question, but now such projects occur in classrooms almost everywhere.