North Central High School - Tamarack Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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SCIENCE Top row: Ernest Hix, department head: Dale E. Blair, biologyg Wil- liam C. Lowther, biology, Raymond Simonson, chemistry. Bottom row: Walter Spangenburg, biology: Orval Theisen, physicsg Paul Tobie, geology. An ever-changing World challenges both the student and the teacher. The science department introduces a basis for studyg students then have the oppor- tunity to choose the scientific phases which interest them most. In the biology courses, students learn the science of living things. Physics brings forth an interest in the forces which challenge the minds of modern society. Learning the wonders of chemical composition thrills chemistry students. A study of rocks and minerals is introduced through geology. In the chemistry lab we find Dick Franks collecting a gas over water and Mickey Brenton working with -a desiccatcr.

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Mr. Nygaard shows Carol McLellan and Tim Mayhew the intracacies of a trig problem. Over the door of his famous academy in Athens, Plato placed the inscription: Let no one destitute of geometry enter. One of the chief characteristics of the present time is that the human mind is asserting itself largely through the power of mathematics. Colleges are emulating Plato by raising the mathematical requirements in nearly all departments of in- struction. Students of mathematics in our schools should now be more vigorously Hdisposed to learn than ever before. MATHEMATICS Top row: P. H. Nygaard, department head: Robert F. Barnard, algebrag Dorothy Congdon, geometry, Bottom row: Burril Exley, algebrag Edwin Kretz, algebrag William Nye, algebrag Mack L. Saunders, algebra. I8

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SOCIAL STUDIES Top row: Charles Chandler, department headg Muriel Allison, U. S. historyg Thomas B. Anderson, World historyg Guy L. Griswold, U. S. history: Del Jones, American history. Bottom row: Edward Luders. psychology? Charles R. Randall, U. S. historyg Virginia Riegel, world history. Through a knowledge of their economic, social and political systems we are able to understand the unrest in various parts of the world caused by the infiltra- tion of world communism and its threat to America's security. To help the students to know and appreciate their heritage and what America should mean to them, the social studies department has a well-balanced program including: World, Northwest and United States history, economics, social psy- chology, current problems and geography. Sandra McCaughan and Florence Humphries appear interested in the' spot on the map pointed out by Dave Cassidy to a United States history class.