South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Why?' and Trove it!' Confront Mathematicians From balancing the family budget to guiding a missile toward the moon, Americans have found a necessary place for mathematics in modern life. Preparing for this life, pupils study everything from whole numbers to cubic equations. Cardboard, paper, sticks, and string help solid geometry theorems come to life for students as they find themselves con- stantly confronted with Why? To say that a statement is true is not enough; students must prove it true. Algebra students face negative numbers, fractions, and ex- ponents and then proceed to that memorable quadratic formula; while trigonometry students, having struggled for hours on a single problem, exclaim with relief, At last I have it! Suppressing their yawns, some seniors even attend a 7:15 analytic geometry and calculus class, thus obtaining an excellent background for college work. Early morning calculus seniors Barb Uhl, Barb Spiers, and Kent King discuss the conic sections about which they are studying. The square upon the hypotenuse is equal to . . . Mr. Sidell helpfully instructs Kathy Klas as she and Marian Johnson, Judy Rogers. Jim Lone, and Judy Ruhl busily prove the Pythagorean Theorem.

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A rather squeamish business there! Mark Lowens, operating the tweezers, delicately dissects a frog for biology class with the advice of Carol Channell. No, this isn't a jungle! Just the botany conservatory, where busy botanists Ann Shilling and Dave Platz are studying the roots of a bean plant. 26

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Social Studies Stress 'You,' U.S., and World Beth Burnett uses a map to illustrate a history report for her fellow srudents. Rick Vanderford and Karen Finfrock. To stem the tide of communism while still keeping prestige in the eyes of neutral countries is one of the main aims of the United States' foreign policy. Students in Government 2 classes, as well as those in all areas of social studies, become aware of their vitality as citizens and the importance of stimulating inter- est and action in the betterment of their own country. Putting the emphasis on you as an individual personality and a pupil in high school, citizenship tries to educate the stu- dent to make him a good citizen, who will live and build in tomorrow's communities. Wars, battles, heroes! moan those who take general and United States history as they fight the Spanish-American, the Revolutionary, the Indian, the World Wars I and II, and the various foreign wars during their course of study. Through informal discussion, arguments, topics of the day, and an outside speaker explaining the stock exchange and the miles of ticker tape, students taking economics learn the whys and wherefores of our dynamic and massive economy. While Government 1 deals with government on the fed- eral, state, and local levels, sociology combines a smattering of anthropology and genealogy with common social problems to stress an understanding of America's social structure and to define its weaknesses. 28