San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Top left, students practice their technique in the somewhat gruesome task of dissecting frogs step by step following the correct chart and workbook procedures in a lab session. Above, striving to learn the intricacies of the human body. Anatomy and Physiology lab students Aurora Walton, Virginia West- brook, and Delfina Trevino, left to right, stu- dy a model of the human brain. At right, the poor frog! He suffers every year under the clipping, cutting fingers of the likes of Diana Quintanilla, left, and Genoveva Ramirez in San Antonio College biology classes. 118 Biology Courses Prove Attractive About a third of the San Antonio College stu- dents during the fall (1,026) and spring (858) semesters took classes in the BIOLOGICAL SCI- ENCES DEPARTMENT. With the addition of Mammalian Anatomy, Botany of Seed Bearing Plants, and Plant Taxonomy in the fall of 1963, the Department now (.ffers 15 courses which are subdivided under Bacteriology, Biology, Botany, and Zoology. Courses for pre-medical, pre-dental, pre-veterinary, and pre-nursing students are taught. Mr. Ernest Harber returned to SAC after a year of advanced studies at The University of Texas. Mrs. Bebe Dorris was the only new addi- tion to the faculty which now totals 10.

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Carol Cooper, art major, applies the brush to an abstract in her painting class. Striking a pose like- (Ik- ik.uIv Hydra-Stone woman sculpture by Victor Johnson is Candy Ro- Susan Roy, Lynn Anderson, and James Blair work on the C;hris.t- mas Window. Studying a sketch in an art history class are Sarah Revely and Mrs. Adrienne Weynand. Trips, Lectures Arouse Interest The students adjust their interests to con- sume as much art as possible. For example, they attend lectures like that of Mr. Felix Candela, noted authority on hyperbolic paraboloid construc- tion. Another prominent event was the first in a series of field trips which took instructors and art majors to The University of Texas Art Depart- ment. They have also garnered awards, prize mon- ey, and recognition while competing with pro- fessional artists in significant shows. Highlighting the year ' s activities were pre- paring their College float which won second place in the April Battle of Flowers Parade and displaying their finest art in the annual May stu- dent show. ' ' W ! 117

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Department Gets New Microscopes Fifty new microscopes were bought during the fall semester to replace the less streamlined models. All students in Biological Sciences have been given access to these microscopes. All forms of life — as we know it — are pre- sented to SAC students for study. The human body itself is analyzed in many of the biology classes, but most thoroughly in Anatomy and Physiology, a subject designed chiefly for nursing students. One zoology course concerns a study of the ani- mal kingdom, while another deals with the para- sites that infest man. The heredity of plants and animals is studied in still another class. Top. Mr. Lloyd McFarland points out some of the plant life on the San Antonio Col- lege campus during a field trip taken by students of a biology lab. Above, Mr. Larry Stripling and Caroline Mitchell, student assistant, look over one of the 300 specimens, mostly of local plant life, which .ire stored in the herbarium cabinet acquired this year. At left, Nannette Davis, seated, appears to be pleased with the assistance of Bobby Ware, Mario Torres, and Arthur Guz- man, left to right, in dissecting a foetal pig during zoology lab. 119