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

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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.

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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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MOUNTING HER HANG- ING — Senior Barb Moring mounts her burlap and yarn stitchery on a wooden frame in preparation for displaying it. Block prints, kookypots wall hangings SILK made SCREEN POSTERS — Publicity posters for the fine arts day were by the silk screen method of printing by Doug Lebrecht, senior. Art, when studied for three years, first teaches basic work and then progresses to applied design. The final year uses the knowledge gained in the previous years to complete ad- vanced assignments. Many projects were done this year. The beginning classes completed two community projects — fire prevention posters in the fall and poppy posters in the spring for the American Legion Auxiliary. The class ' s first project was drawing real- istic pencil and chalk sketches of a plant. In the exercise they learned to compare proportion and recognize positive and negative space. Color theory was studied by using designs. Then they progressed to life drawings done with ink and a stick. Finally, painting and contour drawing was done. The junior art class studied applied design. In working with ceramics, they made wheelpots and vases using the coil method. They also experimented with ceramic owls and kooky pots, free-form pottery. Three dimensional design was studied, and jewelry was made. The class worked with sterling silver on wood, silver on silver, and silver set with stones. Linoleum block prints were one of the advanced class assignments. The class experimented with many different forms of prints. Colored inks were used; paper collages were printed over, and multiple prints were made by printing the same design several times on the paper. Two types of wall hangings were made. In the first, designs were worked out and then stitched onto colored burlap with yarns. The stitch- ings were tacked to a wooden frame and hung. The other hangings were woven on student-made frames from such highly textured materials as twine, rafia, and twigs.