Springfield Catholic High School - Irish Reflector Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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wa Mamz-r Top left Why Am I Afraid to Love by John Powell, Career Exploration and PIHnning by Bruce D. Shertzer, and Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather, were some of the books explored by psychology students. Top center Mr. Karl Ochs lectures on parentst relation- ships with their children. This was studied during the adoles- cent section of the class. Lower right Air. Karl Ochsh and Mr. Bob Meaneys' differ- ences ofopinjons provided lively discussions for first semester psychology students. Lower left Talking to Mr. Karl Ochs is Vickie Schell as she was entering psyclmlngv clasx to start off the day.

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. e u m ,n. ngmmv-We New Outlook - Psychology itNo, babies wontt breakft the psychology class ob- served when taking a field trip to St. Johnts nursery. tt1 was surprised to see the way the nurses han- dled the babies with so much confidence and that they won't break? ex- pressed Patrick Kappel- man. Another field trip taken was to the Center for the Developmentally Disabled. Three major objectives in the class were to provide the students with 'a work- ing understanding of what psychology is, to expose students to the major schools of psychological thought, and to give the students the opportunity to develop a satisfactory vocabulary in psychology. ttPsychology class has helped teach the students to develop skills needed to make more rational decisionsf explained Mr. Karl Ochs, who taught Psychology along with Mr. Meaney. The first semester class was taught the introduc- tion to psychology. Books read by students which i helped them understand psychology included, Salingerts The Ca tcher and the Rye, John PowelPs Free to be Me, and Notes to Myself, by Hugh Prather. Third Period Teachers and Classes Broekboven, Elizabeth - Clothing Sem. 1, Foods Sem. 2. Horton, James - Pre-AIgebra Meirick, Donald - Algebra II Moncber, Steve - English 2 Pinnell, Joyce - Typing Saunders, Andrew - Biology 2 Tucker, Janice - Speech 11 - Acting H Ugh Pr mum

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Biologically Speaking Do you want to know about the parts of your body, and of a plant? Then you should have taken Biology II and found out about these subjects and of other categories studied. itIUs a deeper study than Biology I and you learn a great deal about plants and animalsh, pointed out Vicky Bohanan. The Biology II class, of twenty-one students, hopped into their cars for a ride down to Fordland to Visit Mr. Andrew Saunderst farm for a study on plants, plankton, ponds, and stream inhab- itants. The students were shown a blueberry patch on a hill and how Mr. Saunders used a pump at the base of the hill to carry water up to the blueberries from the pond. Before the journey back to school the class stopped at a flowing stream to 100k for any marine life. They took nets and walked down and up that part of the Finley River to see what they could catch. The only things they a - . .v caught were a few min- nows, small fish, and crawdads. March marked the begin- ning of a unit on disecting fetal pigs. Two weeks were taken for the students to disect the pigs as they studied its internal organs and it,s bones. The students discussed with Mr. Saunders how the veins, arteries and other organs worked. The work went well but the smell was hard to bare for some students. A few just held their nose, while others ignored it. For the test on this unit Mr. Saunders arranged eight pigs around the room, with small flags on important anatomical parts and bones on the skeleton. The students then circled the room with their test papers identifying the parts. All and all it was a busy and enjoyable year for the Biology 11 Class. It ended on a happy note with the arrival of Mr. Saunders second daughter.