Northwest Classen High School - Round Table Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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if I K S I I 5 I3 4-:IV 'ii F f. ff . 1 .. ' .wo W. .K . I ei.. .. THE FIRST INTER ATIONA i IN INSCRIBING OUR BOOK TO SCIENCE, we wish to appropriately recognize past achievements. It took no glittering satellite to establish respect for science among Northwest Classen's popula- tion. The importance of science in today's world has always been understood here and adequately stressed. Accordingly there was no turmoil of re- evaluating and we advanced full strength at our normal pace. Science for science sake is not the goal our science teachers seek. They see science as a means of enhancing and nurturing individual strengths. Today's school must equip for the challenges of an inconceivable future, Scientific approaches will better qualify us for our place of leadership in the world of tomorrow. IN THIS FIRST INTERNATIONAL GEO- PHYSICAL YEAR, we can no longer intone, Go west! Earth's frontier has a new location. The restless ones must now journey into outer space,-- not merely explore new areas on a known world as we did in 1492. Yes, it is a new age. But beset by the same old conflicts,-ambitions, wealth, poverty, war, justice, equality. Humanity's social progress maintains its snail's pace. Unchanged,- except for its expanded manifestations of rest- lessness. Man must now push out the wall of his Universe. WE LIVE IN A WORLD IN WHICH SPEED of change is greater than at any other period in history. Most of our problems arise primarily from this fact-the speed of change. That is the root of trouble in the world between science and re- Iigion. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS THE BASIS OF material things we have today, and it will be the basis of the things we hope to enjoy tomorrow. Research is the means we will use to find the things we want. Research is stressed in any kind of class. It is creative and constructive. Research gives America economic strength that is essential to our national security. As such, it is a bulwark of peace. Our whole pattern of life-the homes we live in, the cars, the planes, are products of research. The world of research can never be emptied. BUSINESS IS THE BACKGROUND OF ALL RESEARCH. Business brings money, encourage- ment, advice, and the ability to make available to the public the things that researchers develop. They do not put a strait jacket on the scientist's mind. Science is a means of achievement, but is not an end in itself. Its triumphs will be empty victories unless they help to make better people who live fuller, more satisfying and nobler lives. THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF TODAY HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY of making or breaking the world. Their accomplishments or failures will change life. Those of us, who create, produce, and dis- tribute the world's goods have a responsibility to do all in our power to see that they are put to good use. . ,T ' eaiieaeaeism. f. rr .. .write ere. fr. N i. if ef ii' f it fr rf y i nv ggiulx 1' rr M ,Q i W , Q Q' i , . ik in .- g , ,W 'ii rf wfv Q 99 '?'? 1w v - A . .. Se. ' Roger Allen derives an expression known as the Sec- ond Complete Elliptic lntegral. It stems from the rectification of the ellipse tfinding its circumferencei and is an invaluable tool in higher mathematics. ln- deed, it cannot be evaluated in terms of the elee mentary operations of Algebra or Trigonometry. Roger has used the expression in finding the period of a satellite orbit.

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Terry West is amazed as she looks at the zoology specimens. Platyhel- minthes, nemathelminthes, and ascaris worms inhabit the jar which she is observing. lt's nice to know these fancy names for the critters. If you have them it doesn't sound so bad. Northwest Classen's future scientists can never seem to get together on the same project at the same time. At the board Sonny Lanier is explaining to Roger Allen a formula he has recently derived. Anne Lynch and Owen Lee Robinson are trying a heat experiment for themselves which they had done by television a week earlier and Joe Foster is checking David Gibson as he is to explain refraction to a fifth hour physics class. Unaware of it all, Bob Payne eyes the crank of the science departments chief source of entertainment-a working model of the oxygen atom. ' vgggfgt, ne w 5, LGOKS TOWARD 2,000 . . 7