Northern High School - Spirit Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Jamie Fenner and John Popham work with the angle measurements of two rays in their fourth hour Trigonometry class. Through the ratios of sides of a right triangle they can find unknown sides or angles of any triangle. Gary Oden sure has something to smile about. He passed another of Mr. Dineen’s calculus tests. That ' s really a relief. Mathematics Still Using Mathematics, to Carl Sandburg, “Is where numbers fly in and out of your head”. At Northern, because of the many different courses, mathematics can’t be summed up as easily. For students who have difficulty in math, a Practical Math class is offered to teach the basic skills of arithmatic. The department offers Algebra and Geometry courses on three different levels so that the student may work according to his ability. A Trigonometry class focuses on triangles and the ratio of the sides of a triangle. Previous changes have added Logic and Consumer’s Math. The Logic class is just that: it trains the student to think in logical terms. Those in Consumer’s math are taught how to get the most out of their money. Budgeting is one of the concepts of the class. No matter what the class, it can always be said that mathematics is when the answer is right and everything is nice you can look out the window - or when the answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again and see how it comes out this time. The Math Department consists of some very dedicated teachers. FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Miss Mary Neil, Mr. Michael Dineen, Mrs. Pamela Mosier, Miss Sandra Gentilly, Mr. Tex Durand. BACK ROW: Mr. Richard Talladay, Mr. Robert Fochtman, Mr. Ronald L. Daley, Mr. Peter Woods, Mr. Eugene Blynn, Mr. Kevin Senn, Mr. Dale O ' Bryant. Pam Pickard and Ron Charles use their mathematical knowledge to fill in a T ruth T able in Mr. Blynn’s Geometry class.

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There is a lot of work in playing and trying to keep in step at the same represents Northern in the Veteran’s Day parade in downtown Port time. Teamwork is a must. Practice pays off as the Marching Band Huron. Tolerance is just one of the many attributes that Mr. Wade has to make the Band Department as fine as it is. This year’s Marching Band Drum Major in action is Senior David Rambaum. 27

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Reasoning, Logic Back to back in Alegbra class, Kathy Buckoski constructs a geometric figure so that Scott MacTaggart can duplicate it according to Kathy’s description of its algebraic make-up. Mr. O’Bryant watches over Dave O’Donnell and Maurice Roe as they do some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems on the calculating machines in their Practical Math class. Even General Math requires a lot of board work. Here some of Mrs. Mosier’s third hour students are putting their problems on the board so that fellow students can check their work. Greg Thomson and Judy Casa find out that two heads can be better than one in Mr. Fochtman’s Logic Class first hour; especially that early in the morning.