St Bernards High School - Memorare Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Science Today's modern world demands ThaT iTs ciTizens be aware oT scienTiTic and Technological develop- menTs. Because oT This, science courses, ranging Trom General Science To Physics, are oTTered To sTu- denTs in all grades. New addiTions To The science deparTmenT This year included an advanced chemisTry course, known as Chem-STudy, and a new biology course based on organic chemisTry. ln Chem-STudy, sTudenTs observed many experimenTs and demonsTraTions and Trom The resulTs oT These discovered The basic principles oT chemisTry. Meanwhile, oTher sTudenTs using The new biology course learned someThing abouT The hisTory oT liTe. Through new and sTandard meThods in Teaching and modern laboraTory eguipmenT, sTudenTs aT ST. Bernard's l-ligh explored The wonders oT naTure and Those oT man's ingenuiTy. Michael Lange does an experimenlr using quanTiTaTive as well as quali- TaTive analysis. LeT's see: How much of The precipiTaTe did I geT7 Whaf color is IT? Why did iT form? Mr. Wick supervises as Dan Pohl, STeve lvlulally, slci use a sTr clap To deTer and Jeannine PTaszyn- oboscope and a bell mine The Time inTerval beTween claps.

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Sisler Cecile Marie explains 'rhe process of osmosis ro Gregory Froehle and Kalhleen Podobinski. Larry Sreifer is srudying and idenrifying lhe varia ous cells in a cross sec- Jrion of a leaf. uf A combina+ion of chemicals proved in- reresling when Ros- alie Zangs and Ralph Ludden exploded a volcano.

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The slide rule presenls a gigan+ic problem for Bill Farmer, but wilh ihe helping hand of Mike Hruska and lhe guiding eye of Mr. Wick, lhe problem becomes a delighl. Mathematics Beginning in freshman year wilh basic algebra, siudenls lalcing malh courses ai SBl'l are accus- 'romed lo hard worlc. From geomelry io lrigonorn- elry, sludenls siruggle Jrhrough Jraslcs which become more complex wiih each year. Classroom explana- lions and regular assignmenis are parl of lhe curric- ulum used lo leach sludenls The iundamenlals of ihese courses. However, by undersianding lhe processes of or- derly reasoning, lhe melhods of delermining con- clusions lrorn given dala, and ihe relalionships of numbers, sludenls noi only pass Their malh courses, bul acquire fools of logic lhal help lhem in olher areas. Mary Curran fries her slcill in drawing inlricale geomelric designs. I2 Anolher class slowly passes as Jeaneile Zawis- lak slruggles lhrough The daily problems of Algebra.