Richfield High School - Aries Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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Thomas Mahler, Larry Martin, and Buddy Royall worked demonstration examples ona large slide rule. Tests, tests, and more tests kept the mathematicians in practice for the In- terscltolastic League contests. Some people worry about common sense, others long for some good old horse sense, but these Richfield stu- dents worked for number sense. What is number sense? Mr. ,lohn C. Lattimore, sponsor of the Number Sense Club, called it 'lspeed and accuracy in the art of com- putation. The members of the club, which met before school, worked to enter the District lnterscholastic Con- test held in April and then hopefully, to go on to the Regional and State Contests. Closely related to the Number Sense Club was Miss Emily Kattner's Slide Rule Club which was organized in December. Members worked for speedy accuracy in slide rule computation, and also entered the Inter- scholastic League Contests. MATH CLUBS PRACTICED ART OF COMPUTATIO Below: David Levy and Larry Curles explained a problem from one of the Number Sense tests to John Scott Butler.

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266 AMPHIBIANS VIED IN MEETS W -- . . st H I k 3 I , I uIt,s better than last year's, said Carla Bryant about Richfieldls 1965-66 Swim Club. And certainly the ac- tivity of the Swim Club was increased. Practices were held on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at the YWCA under the direction of Coach Mike Palmer from Texas ASM. The forty members entered Various meets with other schools and organizations, one of these being the State Meet in Austin. All the members were in agreement when Marcia Lepar said, 'alt takes up a lot of time, but it's worth it. Carla Bryant enlervri the butterfly relay at the Girl's Meet in Austin. David McCullough and Mike Fick faboue rightl and Carl Bryant and Becky Barbce fleftj practiced lar competition in meets. Meets were an excellent place to make new friends. Here Jim Moore and Rush Milam talked to a boy from Connally High. Be kind to your friends in the swamp , because it could be one of these: David MeCallaugh, Mike Compton, Rush Milam, Jim Moore, Wendy Cameron, Cris Oakes, Mike Fick, Marilyn Steed, Kathy Webb, Becky Barbee, Carla Bryant, Susie Farley, and Jean Tidwell. r f

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Steve Weaver, Robert Cross, Nancy Beckham, Ronnie Hanna, Phillis Rutlenbarg, and Paul Herring set up the tape recorder and other machines used in the listening lab. ' tudents Assisted Upon becoming seniors most girls find that they have had enough sit-ups, aerial speedball, and 600 yard walk-runs in physical education, but these nine girls felt that the enjoyment was well worth the responsibility. They were fTOP ROWj Linda Rutherford, Cathy Cole Betty Mur- dock, Parn Baggett, Cindy Swearingen, Becky Hurst, Vickie Loutherback, Virginia Bates, and Cheryl Anderson. in Man Department One of the mast rewarding experiences in life is seeing one's finished project after weeks of hard work. Dianne Gregory and Sharyn Diddie directed jackie Ramsay, Rita Woodall, and Joe Garrison in storing the completed mobiles which hung in the library during the month of March. 268 Above: Telephone calls, messages, and errands exhausted fr. to IJ Shelia Duecy, Kay Randow, Jackie DeLuca, Teresa Clark, Lynn DeLuca, Dana Copeland, Karen Gibbs, Nancy Danton, Marilyn Davis, Sarah Hunt, Pat Lampe, Marilyn Griffin, and Sherrie Cook, assistants to Mrs. McCarthy. Below: Playing hookey was next to impossible due to the hard efforts of fr. to l.j Melissa Megarity, Pat Caulfield, Barbara Steakley, Joyce Bush, Charlcye Dasher, Ann Jablonawski, Betsy Woodard, Pat Caldburg, Patty Magill, and Jan Marstaller. Seniors Brian Ready, Barry Anderson, and Tommy Perkins, and junior Pat Dougherty were the male assistants who were constantly called on to run projectors in the visual education room and to bring other electrical equipment to the classrooms. an I ual-My