Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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BLOWING FOR all they are worth, saxes CHERYL ROBERTS and Dennis Elliott hurry to add the finish- Teresa Floyd and Diane Motz strain to be jng touches of paint to the plaster 'piggy banks' which they heard over the blast of other instruments in created in arts and crafts, their sixth period freshman band class. OUT WITH THE OLD, in with the new. Laura Herman blacks out a discarded painting in order to replace it with her own in Richard Payne’s Art II class.

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ALTOS DEANNA DUREN, Norma Gross, Nanci Gross, and Al ice Osborne practice their parts in preparation for the upcoming Christmas concert. MR. BEN ELLIOT Choir MR. RICHARD PAYNE Art I. II, III, Arts and Crafts MR. LES SIMONS Band I, II Fine Arts Creativity Finds Expression What is art? Ask any of the students enrolled in the MPHS fine arts classes and you would get answers of every type. Art is practicing a piece of music until you can understand the composers every feeling. Art is painting a beautiful sunset. Art is fulfillment. Come on kids, start together!' We have only six more practices before the concert. This was the familiar admonition to the students in Les Simons' Band II classes. Hours were spent tuning up and rehearsing individual parts until the final minutes before an appearance. Band I students spent the biggest part of theiryear learning technique, embouchure, good posture, and breathing habits. These basic skills must be mastered before advancing to Band II. Gooey clay smeared up to the elbows and a smudge paint on the nose was nothing unusual to the students in Richard Payne's Art I class. Here students learned to draw perspective and studied color art and history. Art II students delved into many phases of art throughout the 1966-67 school year. Sculpturing the head of a friend brought about many comments varying from Hey, that really looks like me to Are you trying to be funny? Richard Payne also taught advertising, cartooning, and illustration. Arts and crafts covered everything from pottery to copper tooling and created objrcts of every shape and size. Choir students, directed by Ben Elliot, went over popular music like Scarlet Ribbons and Moon River as well as the more traditional numbers. Singing was practiced 'a cappella’ to encourage good reading habits and correct pitch. 16

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Math Students Meet Challenge of ’New’ Math Since when has the mathematical equation, one plus one, equaled ten? Since modern math has come to Myrtle Point High. Teachers stressed the principles of Modern Math in all classes of high school math in an effort to keep pace with the tremendous advances being made in that field. A required one year course, math, when offered as an elective, attracted many students looking for a solid math background required for college. Two hundred and fifty students, approximately one half of the student body, were enrolled in six different classes, ranging from basic math to advanced trigonmetry. Instructors, Elsie Downing, Gene Coleman, and Woodson LaSueur, made a special effort to explain the why as well as the how in both the new and the old' math. Basic math students under Coleman strove to gain a fundamental understanding of math with much of the year being spent in building up each student’s weak area. General math students continued to build solid foundations in math. Pupils reviewed and built speed in working with equations, graphs and positive and negative numbers. Algebra students learned to work out difficult equations in order to find the unknown quantity. Solving this type of equation is felt to be an excellent preparation for dealing with problems in other areas. Elsie Downing taught her geometry classes the theories of nature and how they can be applied to math. Students also learned to use the slide rule in working out difficult computations. Math V dealt primarily with the use of logarithims and advanced theorems, while Math VI, or calculus students spent the year with the algebra of vectors and functions in preparation for college math. ’’I’D SURE LIKE TO thank the guy who invented this slide rule,” thinds Math VI student Irvin King as he works out a momentum problem. 18