St John Township High School - Echo Yearbook (Dyer, IN)

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NOW IF A EQUALS B AND . . . day after day Mr. Kermit Kerns struggles with the Dyer students, teaching them to think clearly, to reason logically, and to figger accurately. He also teaches physics, and still finds time to sponsor the senior class, guiding its members along the obstacle strewn path that leads to graduation. Before starting his teaching career at Dyer three years ago, he served two years with the navy, and a picture of him as a young sailor can be found elsewhere in this book. We Learn to Reason WHY WAS EUCLID EVER BORN? . . . Mike Sabo (left) is asking Bob Rakoczy the question that every geometry student eventually asks himself. Nevertheless, high school students today know far more mathematics than the wisest of the ancient Greeks .and there are infinitely more vocational opportunities for the graduate with the math major—teaching, research, accounting, insurance, and many others. Any senior who has lived through Mr. Kern's courses in freshman and advanced algebra, plain and solid geometry, and trig, may be sure he can go out into the world and find profitable employment. 8

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WIELDING A PAINT BRUSH OR A BATON, MR. VIRGIL DeALBANI is equally at home. He develops the artistic side of Dyer students by teaching art and directing the glee club and band. In addition to being a competent landscapist (several of his oils hang in homes throughout the community,) he is an accomplished violinist, and has played with well known symphony orchestras. This year he has again proved his versatility by starting a class in mechanical drawing, offered especially for the benefit of those boys who are planning to study engineering. and Art PERSPECTIVE, PROPORTION, SHADING .. and other similar terms puzzle the minds of these young artists, bent over their drawing boards with such concentration. Christmas cards, landscapes, still lifes,— they all take shape under the watchful eye of Mr. DeAlbani, and give to the class members the thrill of doing creative work. 7

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AMEBAE, PROTOPLASM. LEPIDOPTERA . . . many freshmen seem bewildered as Mr. Walter Haver-kamp introduces them to the study of plant and animal life. Mr. Haverkamp, a newcomer at Dyer this year, is as handy with the microscope as he is with a test tube. He sponsors the Science Club, too, and in many other ways he stimulates students interested in scientific research. High school and college science teachers have done a great deal to replace legend and superstition with scientific facts and theory. and Experiment FROM HIGH SCHOOL CHEM LAB TO INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ... that may be the path that Larry Heyl will follow. In the picture at the left he is shown making hydrogen chloride gas, with Mike Reed an interested onlooker. With the increasing need for all people to know more about scientific methods, the enrollment in science classes grows larger every year. Biology students study plant and animal life in the local park; physics class members learn how to apply the laws of physics to ordinary house building; and young chemists learn the results of various combinations of natural elements. 9