Northwest High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Personal accomplishment stressed in science courses From dissecting a fetal pig to studying reaction rates of the ele- ments, science department courses offered practical knowledge as well as variance in uncommon general knowledge. Enrollment increased by 200 to 1,510 this year. Because the science department was one of the largest in the school, expanding the science classes to the old math wing was necessary to accommo- date the growing number of en- rolees. Research and careful observation were stressed in experimentation. One pupil received S100 from the Heart Fund on his research proj- ect. An accurate account of every satellite launched by America and Russia was another project record- ed by a science-minded Pioneer. For the first time, four NHS stu- dents enrolled in the Science Seminar, an organization which meets Saturday mornings to enable pupils from various high schools to attend lectures covering the science field in depth. Biology teacher Mrs. Leigh Richie points out new fish acquired by the science department to her pupils, Bob Gushree and Rexanne Coleman, sophomores. 38 Linda Montgomery, junior, measures zinc as the first step of an experiment. Terry Boring and Gail Fisher, juniors, prove teamwork pays off during experiments.

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li rk i Developmental reading laboratory gives NHS pupils an opportunity to improve their reading speed and comprehension with the aid of special devices. umm lean Brocklehurst and Debbie Coleman, juniors, assist their English teacher, Mrs. Arwilda Burton, with a special bulletin board display. 37 Mr. john Render, English teacher, is happy with janet Davenport's improvement.

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Mr. William Saler and his student teacher, Mrs. Wilcox, discuss teaching methods. Basicmath or computors, it all figures out here Find the distance represented by the area between the two curves y : sin x and y I cos 3x. Impossi- ble? Not to students who took ana- lytic geometry and calculus. This ad- vanced course was offered to sen- iors who had taken Geometry I 84 ll and Algebra Ill 84 IV in their sophomore year. Computer math, a unique course at Northwest, was again offered. Beginning in the fall sophomores with special permission could also take the course previously offered to juniors and seniors only. Seniors Alan Shirley and Bruce Shelley conducted a Science Sem- inar session at I.U. Medical Center demonstrating how to solve prob- lems with a portable terminal con- nected by telephone to a Chicago computer. Approximately thirty-five juniors and seniors took part in a national mathematics contest conducted by the Mathematical Association of America and the Society of Actuar- ies. Reducing a fraction by first factoring isn't difficult to Scott Swanson, sophomore, who explains it to the class on the blackboard. 39