Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Alice Sutton, Phil Levitt, Bill Bruner, Dick Gazley that heralded the 6'Atomic Agea' Meanwhile, across the hall in 304, you might find Mr. Wayne L. French teaching a group of wide-eyed physics students the mysteries of atomic energy. In the picture we see Alice Sutton, Phil Levitt, Bill Bruner, and Dick Galley working some of the many problems that they find in a physics textbook. What is specific gravity? What is the speed of sound? If a cubic foot of wood weighs 40 pounds, what part of it will be submerged if the block is placed in sea water? If a rubber ball is dropped from a plane 5000 feet above the sur- face ofthe earth, how long will it take the ball to reach the ground? What are foot-pounds? What are ergs? What is a spectrum? What is an elec- trical transformer? Here, and in the physics lab next door, Mr. French taught his students the physical principles of the universe with the aid of formulae, con- stants, and hard work. Here was a course that made students think, but all the seniors who studied in 304 will remember physics as one of their most interesting courses.

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Jo Ellis, Ed Rauh Fred Alpers, Helmut Alpers, Henry Seasholes, Abe Lager, Dick Tuttle, B. J. Adelson Science tau ht us the concepts For Period l let's drop in on Mr. Alfred S. Jones' chemistry laboratory where we find Jo Ellis and Ed Rauh preparing to analyze a sample of water for impurities which have not been re- moved by the city's water purification system. Hundreds of Shaker seniors have worked in this lab, seeking the answers to puzzling questions thrown at them from a chemistry workbook. How is oxygen prepared in the lab? How is sulphur dioxide oxidized? What are the oxides of nitro- gen? How many grams of nitrogen combine with how many grams of hydrogen to form 1000 cubic centimeters of ammonia gas? Under the guidance of Mr. Jones and Mr. Erich Martienssen Shaker learned the answers. Back in the chemistry supply room we find the boys who passed the chemicals and mixed the reagents that made student experimenting pos- sible. Giving an extra period of their time each week to work for the Science Department, these boys were responsible for the complete mainte- nance of the workroom with its hundreds of bottles and boxes. Fred Alpers, Helmut Alpers, Henry Seasholes, Abe Lager, Dick Tuttle, and B. J. Adelson got more than their shore of the strange odors of hydrogen chloride, hydrogen sulphide, bromine, and sulphur dioxide, which sometimes escaped from the lab to terrify other students on the third floor. But they liked the lab so much that you could find them often after school sur- rounded by chemicals and working on a new ex- periment.

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l.et's follow Jo as she wanders down the hall and into Miss Alma Bowen's second period plane geometry class. Here we see Pete McDonald ex- plaining the fine points of a square inscribed in a circle to Dick Tuttle, Gloria Keyes, and Jo. Other plane geometry teachers we remember are Mr. Eugene Branson and Mr. Paul T. Ulrich. Dick Tuttle, Pete McDonald, Jo Ellis, Gloria Keyes Math tau ht us concentrationg Ed Koffman, Abe Lager, .lim Vaughn, Mr. Park Solid geometry under Mr. O. T. Park contained another dimension to worry ambitious math stu- dents. While Pete seemed puzzled over a square in a circle, Mr. Park labored to describe for Ed Koffman, Abe Lager, and Jim Vaughn the appeare ance of a spherical triangle drawn on the surface of a sphere.