Niles Township High School East - Reflections Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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In Advanced Chemistry, Judy Bolin, Bill Dutton, Jim Iver¬ son, Gail Braverman, Alex Maurizi, and Jay Doney learn to measure the degree of ionization by titration. Ten per cent of the student body are enrolled in accelerated courses. Honors Reading, which requires a student to have a B or better average in English and to have taken Composition I, emphasizes the social and psychological aspects of novels, poetry, and drama; Mathematical Analysis, which requires a student to have taken accelerated algebra and geometry, emphasizes basic ideas of mathematics rather than problem-solving techniques; Accelerated Physics, which requires a special recommendation for enrollment, emphasizes depth of study and in¬ quiry, rather than breadth. Next year additional ac¬ celerated courses will be offered, including a second year of Mathematical Analysis, which will be an in¬ troduction to analytical geometry and calculus. The gifted student, stimulated and challenged, will even¬ tually repay mankind. Analyzing cost of living graphs in Economics are Joe Stout, Nina Nipper, Dan Lang, and Dennis Blevitt. 19

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SCIENCE SEMINAR STIMULATES SCIENTIFICALLY GIFTED STUDENT Sputnik, more than any other circumstance in my lifetime, has caused the American people to look critically and — I hope — thoughtfully at our entire educational enterprise. Milton Eisenhower voiced this opinion in an interview in U.S. News in February, 1958. This lagging of the United States behind Russia has caused us to re-examine our educational system, particularly in the fields of mathematics and science. Although students in many secondary schools graduate without courses in these areas, at Niles twenty-seven per cent of the students in the regular curriculum take advantage of the advanced science program. Niles has also pioneered the Science Semi¬ nar, which encourages gifted students to spend ten to fifteen extracurricular hours a week exploring science. This program, developed by Jacob Shapiro, is now directed by Dr. Evelyn Tyner. The funds necessary to supply laboratory facilities and ma¬ terials come from the Berg Foundation, set up by Joe Berg, grandfather of Stanley Berg, a member of the Seminar. Alex Maurizi, Jay Doney, Jim Iverson, and Gail Braverman use Burrette tubes to determine the percentage of solute in a solution of hydrogen chloride. At G. D. Searle Co., where some students are working on electronic projects, Mr. Harrison S. Backus, Seminar staff member and research engineer at G. D. Searle, looks on as Douglas Marshall tunes in an intricate wave he has just generated. Douglas Spengler does a tricky bit of soldering on a vacuum tube volt meter, and (background) Mary Maselli and Ron¬ ald Krischke check the distortion level of an audio generator. Bruce Norgan supplies the mathematics, and Pat French records the data as Kent Krause positions the weight in evaluating a complex pulley system in Accelerated Physics class.