Randallstown High School - Horizon Yearbook (Randallstown, MD)

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ophomore Steven Young is quite a whiz kid, judg- ing by his score of 92 on the thirty-second annual high school mathematics examination. I never expected to do it, he admits. Since the contest, Steven's gotten a lot of congratulations. Also, the It's Academic team has recruited him. Current team member senior Chris Chesnakas, who placed sec- ond, with a score of 83, figured that if Steve scored so well on the contest, he must be really smart, so he wanted him on the team. Senior Chris Johnson and Ju- nior Robert Eltenbogen tied for third place with scores of 82. Although the final results are not in yet, preliminary research shows that if RHS's team score Ctop three scoresj is not the win- ning score as it was last year, it's very close. Steve's score may be the best in Baltimore County. Whiz Kid Computer math students normally fill out computer cards with a laundry markerg however, the marker's fumes cause dizzi- ness. To aviod this, Bill Markowitz types his programs on punch cards. Math 10, 11, 12, Consumer Math Trigonometry!Analytic Geometry Geometry, Calculus Algebraic Topics and Trigonometry Algebra I, II, College Algebra Computer Math Geometry and Transformations 2 1 if ,ff .g 3 H i -3 ' , 5 if! , 1 'Q and 1-W 4 Students, including sophomore Brian work on their daily class assignment. This Spencer, in Mr. Ardissonefs Math 10 class lesson deals with measurements. I I I but to really foul computer Mathf55

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I , 54fMath W -R00 errorfSJ occurred during execution, 'H C-04 U , misplaced commas, M- 12 execution suppressed, 'H' F-R06 H, unintellegible coding, M-15 il- legal cartridge ID, abnormal EOJ, or-worst of all-is not in LET or FLET. This foreign language is called FORTRAN, it is the IBM 1130's native language and the language used in RHS's Computer Math Probability and Statistics class. FORTRAN is a good language to start with because skills are trans- ferrable to other computer lan- guages used in business and indus- try. Computer math is traditionally a neglected branch of math in high school. Teacher Bill Rust thinks that it is a valuable course because it gives students an ad- vantage if they are planning to major in computers or a related field. It helps students by teaching them logic and organization. There are 22 seniors at RHS taking computer math. They must learn FORTRAN to communicate with the computer at Loch Raven Senior High School. About 21 times during the year, CMPS stu- dents visit the computer at Loch Raven. They feed stacks of cards into the computer and impatient- ly await the verdict: normal EOJ tend of jobl or abnormal EOJ. Mr. Rust and Jack Mitchell, who runs the lab, help those frus- trated students whose programs do not work. C-errors are the least compli- cated to correct, the computer tells the student what and where the error is. F0O- errors are worse, the computer tells the student what it did wrong, but not where he did it. Is not in LET or FLET is not really as bad as it . sounds. Usually it occurs because a student filled in the wrong bub- ble on a computer card. The prob- lem is that it doesn't reveal the location of the error, so one must search through his entire pro- gram. Finally when all the errors are fixed, the program's debugged- in computer jargon--those glori- ous words appear at the bottom of the program: end of sucessful com- pilation, normal EOJ. Mr. Rust grades the finished program on a scale from one to ten. He gives an occasional eleven to students who have utilized a particularly original technique. I The students in the class have mixed reactions to their work. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, but most of all it's frus- trating! End of successful compilation. Normal EOJ. College algebra instructor Ron Medvetz teach- es logarithms. Fortunately, students may now use calculators in place of cumbersome tables. Completing his notes, Insuk Chin listens to instructions along with classmate Dimitri Karg- man. V Well, itis not LET or FLETY' At the Loch Raven lab, computer master Jack Mitchell de- bugs Barbara Caplan's program which predicts the winning numbers in the daily lottery. .l JNL5 1.1. L 't is X e MA TH AIDES Front row: Kelly DeSouza, Mrs. Bonnell, Kim Williams. To err is human things up takes rf

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Clim- i 415.45 E .f ' What does it mean if I chew gum a lot? ou're not studying history, you're studying yourself and the people around you, re- marks Jeff Land. This is one of the many reasons why students such as Jane Lowenthal consider behavior their favorite subject. The sexual stuff was fun, says Jane. Students discuss sex roles and the sexual revolution, frequently disa- greeing with each other. Differences of opinion create heated discussions because, as Richard Himelfarb com- 56!Social studies ments, There are no black and white answers. A major unit concentrates on cur- rent personality theory. Students study the proposer of the first psy- choanalytical theory of personality, Sigmund Freud, who identified the five psychosexual stages in child- hood personality development, Erik Erikson, who in contrast believed that personality continues to develop throughout one's lifetime, and Erich Fromm, who suggested that culture is the major shaper of personality. Natalie Houchen finds this unit interesting: I started to analyze my- self. Other activities include IQ testing, doodle analysis and biorhythm charting. All of these activities help stu- dents understand the way people are, says Kim Majesky. This inter- est in people's actions has not only made human behavior one of the most popular courses in RHS, but also has made psychology the most popular major in college.