New Haven High School - Mirage Yearbook (New Haven, IN)

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kr ' V N» ; IN THE CABBAGE PATCH— Surrounded by fiats of tomatoes and geraniums and a five-year-old castor bean plant, sophomore Pete Mailers and senior Dick Burkett work in a flat of cabbage plants. Science students use Every two years, man ' s total store of knowledge doubles. Thousands of scientific books are printed every year; but the day after a chemistry book is published, new facts discovered by the technical explosion has made the book obsolete. In this atmosphere, New Haven teachers taught science funda- mentals to students. The basic course, physical science, was a survey of all the sciences condensed into a general study. Biology pupils studied plant and animal kingdoms and the members of the major phylla. In a unit of dissection, a series of simple animals ending with the frog was closely studied. Botany and zoology were extensions of biology. Each of the semester classes did much laboratory work including growing plants and dissecting fetal pigs. Basic chemistry was one of the three chemistry classes offered to students. It was mainly for girls who planned to go into the field of nursing. First year chemistry and ad- vanced chemical analysis were the two other courses. In physics, the natural laws of the universe were taught and then demonstrated and explained. FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE— Lou Ann Katzenmaier, junior, shows senior Jane Rosenthal how to fire-polish a broken glass tube in basic chem- istry class. The all-girl chemistry class was for students who planned to go into the field of nursing.

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for future living Computers took over jobs this year that hadn ' t even been devised 25 years ago. Every day the world became more and more complex; great emphasis was placed on technical training. Mathematicians with the help of computers, under- took jobs that would have staggered Atlas. Every federal in- come tax forms were checked, and satellite paths to the planets were calculated. Mathematics courses helped prepare students for life in this complex world. Business math taught pupils how to handle figures and understand basic arithmetic used in every facet of life in the home and on the job. Logic and reasoning powers were developed in plane geometry, a sophomore class. Having the answers was not enough; the how and why had to be explained. The theories of Galois, taught in modern algebra, gave pupils a whole new math vocabulary to handle — sets, func- tion, systems, and graphs. Senior mathematicians struggled with secants and tangents, sines and radiands. In the final year of mathematics, college prep students studied one semester of advanced algebra, while the second semester was occupied with the study of trigo- nometry. CONCENTRATED STUDY— The student institution known as cram- ming seldom helps pupils taking geometry tests. Attention in the classroom and daily study is the better way to prepare for a test. SIN C EQUALS . . .—Senior John Hack constructs triangles at the black- board as proof of trigonometry statements.

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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS Sen- iors Craig Hooker and Al Hearn complete one of the many sci- entific experiments required in advanced chemistry. glass rods, fetal pigs, and cabbage plants THIS LITTLE PIGGY— Sophomore biology students Duane Brown and were used instead of frogs because the physiology of a pig is closer to that of Diane Coblentz follow laboratory manuals as they dissect a fetal pig. Pigs a human being than any other animal.