North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Mathematics, Sciences, Used in Correlation with Each As zoology student Tom Walton probes the internal anatomy of a fetal pig, his lab partnet Ron Van Ryn ptepares to record. Although all science courses were electives, more than 600 persons enrolled in at least one of the courses. North, as a result, had an accelerated program in the science fields. For instance, we are the only school in the city that offers a Zoology course. We also have a program arranged for those planning to continue into the science field who have had at least two previous years of work within the department. Be- sides he lping their teachers with beginning classes, these stu- dents worked as lab assistants on projects pertaining to their particular area of interest. To enrich the many facets of science study, the depart- ment has acquired new equipment: the chemistry and physics rooms have new periodic wall charts as well as a variable- phase wave generator. Botany and zoology classes have the added convenience of an overhead projector and an auto- clave, which sterilizes instruments with high pressure steam. The many lab periods offered in physics, chemistry, zo- ology and botany were a boon to the relationships the sci- ences have to our world. True, we gave these plain, old things scientific names and tried to memorize them; but these things are our environment, and we can ' t live without them. Concentrating on his lab experiment, Ben Martin selects the needed ingredients from an assortment of acids and bases. 22

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Term papers involve many long hours spent in accumulation of ideas, in library research, and in writing rough drafts. Past History Studied Today In their economics class Lin da Boxell helps Bruce Lee plot the de- creasing course of stock on the New York Exchange. Al Hein finds his hands full of economics as he switches from gov- ernment to economics at mid-semester. 21

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Other, Combine Past Advantages, Future Possibilities To be eligible for the most advanced classes in the math- ematics department a student must have been on an advanced program in junior high, and have taken all of the subjects offered in the normal three year math curriculum. This course in itself, however, was quite complex. Follow- ing a two-semester battle with elementary algebra, and another two semesters of plane geometry, the math enthusiast found himself ready to enroll in one semester of advanced algebra. The next math courses, if not algebraic, envolved the relation- ships of figures to other figures. Generally, the more advanced courses just delved deeper into what we have already learned in math. Each additional course strengthened the students ' back- ground in math. Eventually some of the things we believed and took for granted were torn apart and we had to prove them. Gradually, if the mind is alert, more theories are doubted and, subsequently, rechecked and re-proven. Framed! . . . and by an isosceles triangle at that! Algebra often presents such thought provoking questions as the one Jim Busche asks Mr. W. H. McNeely about logarithims. Finally, trigonometry student Rick Altekruse arrives at the conclusion that all of his hatd work amounts to absolutely nothing. 23