Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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O tg ojwg L hvottfv cm L sctfiitce couam Susie Bolen is performing a chemistry experi- ment in titration in which the strength of an acid or a base may be determined. Rosalie Hutchens works a solid geometry prob- lem at the board as Larry Svendson uses the slide rule to find the answer. A former geometry student, Ronnie Keck, shows Jim Humphrey and Becky Burkhalter his Christmas Geometry project. Ronnie’s Christmas card holder was made from an original design. 6

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owo school has ou colon juJL pe iso ialihj While waiting in the lobby for the shuttlebus which will take them to their classes in the junior high school, Tom Lampert and Jim Hardin compare answers while Judy Castleman, Mary Jo Watson, and Linda Walls talk away the time. The 1959-60 school year brought a beginning day for all of us—a beginning of high school life for the sophomores, a beginning of being cherished upperclass- men for the juniors, and a beginning of the last year for the seniors. As we en- tered the doors of the school once again, we realized what a colorful personality our nearly new school had developed. We were glad to get back to its long, long hallway, its bright, busy classrooms, and its general this-is-home atmos- phere. We had missed the crowded hall- way, the long drinking fountain line, the locker chats, the lunch line, and the laughter of happy people. But now it is ours once again, for the halls are thronged with happy, busy students. Arriving on the early bus, two of our nearly four hundred students enter the building to wait patiently for the class bell.

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young SCh i ti fitcmlbC SpCuCG acj One of the first units studied in physics classes is the metric system of weights. Here, Ronnie Gribble and David Davis weigh geometric blocks of wood while Vicki Johnston records the weights. Our science and math courses provide students with an adequate background for both col lege and a career after high school. Although-interest in these courses has al- ways run high, this year saw more students than ever enrolled in these classes. Projects in plane geometry occupied the sophomores throughout the year. Juniors have been busily engaged in solving the problems of Algebra II and in testing the laws of physics. Chemistry, solid geometry, college algebra, and trigonometry present- ed the seniors with new and puzzling problems. Many students have found new interests during classes and have carried these inter- ests over into hobbies and projects. Physics and chemistry especially added new fields of investigation. New careers in these fields opened up to some of our students, and many have decided to choose a voca- tion from these areas. Pages of calculations, worn-out slide rules, odors drifting out of the chemistry lab, physics experiments in progress—all these are signs of an active, interesting year for our science and math students. Don Templeton puts the finishing touches on his scale model house, which will be handed in as his fifth six weeks project in his geometry class. 7