Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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Equations and geometric proofs offer a challenge to the alert mind Studying the geometric forms in nature are Mr. H. G. Monilaw, Mrs. Mabel Scheible, Mr. V. R. Kent, Miss Wilma Sims, Mr. W. A. Law, and Miss Margaret Sullivan. A study of the sextant in most pleasant surroundings is made by Mr. F. W. Baer, Miss Virginia Terhune, Mr. E. L. Joyner, Miss Lillian Arends, Miss Martha Hildebrandt, and Mr. U. C. Foster. Page 28

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Beginning arfisfs interpret music by making original a Miss Wilhelmina Marm, head of the art department, and her colleague, Miss Marion Dodderer, stand beside one of the two magnificent lions that guard the entrance to Chicago's Art Institute. It is difficult to estimate the service of the art department to the school. In any situation which demands the artistic approach, the Art Department is called upon for advice and assistance. It was a student of the Art Depart- ment Who designed the distinctive monogram for the choir members' stoles. As an American Education Week project, art students prepared a panel sensitively illustrating the theme Education for the Atomic Age. The scenery for school plays is prepared by Provisois artistsg their holiday decorations brighten the work-a-day atmosphere of the school. Surely, life at Proviso is greatly enriched by the innumerable services of the Art Department. bsfracfions 'X 43 Page 27

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. basic in technology MATHEMATICS . . b fore man dreamed of an or- .Long e derly science of number, form, and rea- soning, nature developed in accordance ' t rns. Gradually with mathematical pat e man discovered the laws set by these sed them to his own ad- is patterns and u vantage. series The simple ratio, the number which grew out of it, and the geometric form which expressed it were all serv- iceable tools for man when their use by nature became apparent to him. The beauty of a flower, conforming to geo- metrical ratio and pattern, brought forth ideas in decoration. The threads of a spider web, falling along the lines of a catenary curve, helped the engineer to realize the possibility of building sus pension bridges. The logarithmic spiral found in the snail shell, the pine cone, and the horns of the deer and the goat, was copied in the spiral stairway. The soap bubble and the soap film pointed the way to the study of minimal sur faces, the application of which proved to the manufac- rce of economy il SOH il1l'CI'. all At Proviso, the student is given opportunity to study the fundamentals of these mathematical principles which are so abundantly present in nature. If he fully realizes the application of these principles to man-made things, , the student will be more able to con- tribute his part to the advancement of ' ld of peace. civiliz ation 1n a wor they mean when they say Is this what students go to school to play? A special case of the binomla are these students just playing with blocks? 1 theorem-or math students are making Page Two fourth-year their marks on the world.