Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Department ! Oh,what fun is a chemistry experiment! Those little powders and solutions certainly seem to wake up and react when mixed in just the right proportions! This year we are especially fortunate in having Dr. Sherwood Cithens, nationally and internation- ally known, of Duke University and the Army Ord- nance, teach an experimental class of Physics com- posed of juniors and Seniors. Physics students go into their experiments and exercises armed with equations and slide rules as their tools and often come up with surprising results. L Many Seniors take Senior Science, an advanced general science course. They enjoy reading scien- tific articles and preparing reports on subjects closely related to their text hook material. All students must have two units of science for graduation. After all, our world is very science- minded! Floyd Dennis, Hallie Faye Carrard, Recil Smith, and Tommy Fletcher express different feelings as they watch for results of their experimenting. Frequent experiments highlight the General Science course. Ilcre XVaync Riddle, Butch Fer- rell, Crawford XVilliams, and Crafton Mitchell are displaying an experiment of the electrolysis of water. Charles Cihbs, Adele Penny, and Mrs. llumm are examining a specimen of water, taken from a pond, to determine its living content. Page Eighty-One

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Sciene 1 Dr. Cithens, a noted physicist, is shown at the Word because this was the day that Dr. Cithens ex- board explaining the powers of ten rotation of num- plained the operation of the slide rule and its won- bers to his experimental class at Southern. drous speed of calculating. The students seem to be listening to his every XVoody Cribb and Tommy Parrish are pic- tured explaining and demonstrating the distilla- tion of alcohol before the other members of the Senior Science Class. The Biological Brood of Sciences are pic tured here as they appeared in one of the dis- play windows in the Science Department. 'DA no Because the science courses at Southern are all electives except Biology, the science department is probably the most enjoyable of our school. Many Freshmen elect General Science and receive a well- rounded picture of our broad scientific world. All Sophomores take Biology for a more- detailed picture of the worlds of plants and ani- mals. Chemistry has become a very popular subject for Iuniors at Southern. The challenge of compli- cated experiments lures many students into the study of the elements. Armed with flasks, test tubes, and graduated cylinders, they venture into an ex- periment hoping for results rather than an ex- plosion. One further step up the ladder is Physics.

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zaxff --ure e....-.,W,, F-F.-m m-fa.. ,. e r ,,.L A -M. , Skill comes slowly but surely to Mechanical Drawing students. Mr. Mc- Kneeley is shown explaining a drawing instrument to Eugene Vincent while Ben Cates, Wlesley Daniel, Buck Duke, and XVayne Kennedy concentrate on their work. Four Senior girls, Norma VVatson, Linda Ilutson, Ellen Mize, and Florence Currier, taking Ilome Economics III, are shown in one of the spacious and modern kitchens of the Home Eco- nomics Department. The Vocational Department of Southem has proved to be practical and interesting. For girls, Home Economics I and Home Eco- nomics II are required courses funless Latin is electedj. During the Freshman and Sophomore years the girls' talents for cooking and sewing are developed. Other arts of homemaking, child care, budgeting, and etiquette are acquired dur- ing these years. Home Economics III, an elective in the Iunior and Senior years, offers further op- portunities in various phases of more advanced homemaking. The students in the commercial wing certainly suffer when the delicious odors of fried chicken or freshly baked cookies filter into their classrooms from the Home Economics kitchens. Vocational courses for the boys at Southern are Shop I, Shop II, Mechanical Drawing, and four years of Agriculture. XVith the help ol modern machinery, various articles of furniture and many lovely gifts of metal and plastic are made by the skillful hands of shop students. 5 --.--.-................. ,, , Page Wallace Carden, Doug- las Green, Robert Tay- lor, Marvin Gentry, and Tex Barbee are shown as they learn how to use tools and simple appli- ances in Industrial Arts I. Vocation: