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

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Worlds Of Machines, Periodic Tables, Microscopic Life During a laboratory period in botany, Julie Neuenschwander, Mike Hogan, and Lynne Fraser carefully examine the growth rings, hearcwood, and transport vessels in a sample of wood. These laboratory projects were done after the students studied the drawings of wood in their textbooks. As Cheri Spangle takes notes, Robert Stocks locates an im- portant mountain range on the globe in physical geography. Ardent Chemistry 2 student Cindy Miller is deeply engrossed in identifying her anions while Dave Blanton and Jane Prill find amusement in the test for chlorine. 29

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Science Department Unveils John Stewart and Billie Burgo delve into the mystery of natural laws and motion while performing a physics pendulum experiment. Striving to make a precise drawing of a Paramecium, biologist Brian Yelland observes the organism through a high-powered microsco pe. As man strives to transcend his own world and grasp the mys- teries of the planets and galaxies, the demand for scientists in industry, and particularly in research, increases each year. To aid in meeting this demand, the Science Department utilized the demonstration-laboratory-recitation-lecture method of instruction in directing its five science courses. Mysteries of reproduction, digestion, and genetics unfolded for the student in the biological sciences. Thus revealed, these processes served as part of the basis for the classification of plants and animals into their respective families. Through the medium of such textbook aids as maps, charts, and film strips, the student in the physical geography course was able to visualize the basic principles of several sciences in rela- tion to one another and to everyday life. Having studied the composition and functions of the cell by means of the textbook, the botany student used the microscope to bring to life the drawings of the leaf and onion skin. Meanwhile, the theories of force, electricity, and magnetism were employed by the physics student in his study of machines. Here he also learned the intricacies of the slide rule. Chemistry continued with the same concept presented in phys- ics— -The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy. Having en- tered a new sphere of acids, bases, and salts, the student was first confronted with the valence table. After mastering this table, he then proceeded to write formulas and balance reactions. By struggling with whites and yellows for an entire year, the chemistry student — as well as those enrolled in the other sci- ence courses — -acquired the sound foundation necessary for ad- vanced work in his chosen vocation. 28

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Musicians, Vocalists Learn Of Carols, Clefs, Composers During music appreciation cellist Bonnie Smith shows Jon Poto how to use the bow while Susan Moyer holds his arm in the proper position. Music is the only universal tongue. Realizing this fact, the Music Department attempted to provide the student with the knowledge necessary to translate the real message music offers. Whether the student was in the band, orchsstr.t, or choir, he was first instructed in the art of reading music. Not only did he learn to distinguish between G-clefs and bass clefs, but also to identify a song by means of bars of music. Practice in singing a wide variety of songs ranging from church music and Christmas carols to show tunes and all-time favorites was then offered by the Choir Department. Similarly, the student in band or orchestra was familiarized with the many periods of music. He played selections from the seventeenth century of Haydn and Bach, the nineteenth century of waltzes, and the twentieth century of Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady. Marches being the trademark of the band, the student in this section also received marching drill. At the same time, the music appreciation course provided an outlet for the student not talented in playing music but inter- ested in listening to it. Here the lives and works of famous classi- cal and romantic composers were studied. Several different versions of the same composition were played to teach the student discretion in music. As an extracurricular activity, the student watched the Leonard Bernstein television programs, exemplifying the contemporary style. One may therefore conclude that through the Music Depart- ment's program of something for everyone each student who took advantage of it was better equipped with the essentials of the Fine Arts necessary to appreciate the finer things of life. Singing to the tune of Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Cindy George, Lu Ann Post, Marsha Ehrmann, Rena Stein, and Kathy Hawkins follow Hos's directions. As members of the advanced choir, the girls practiced the fundamentals of music that they had learned in training choir. 30