St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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ABOVE LEFT: The 5th hour Algebra II class awaits the bell to ring. BELOW LEFT: Mr. Dixson helps out his Algebra I class on a tough assignment. BELOW: Sharmett Pinsince and Rox- anne Wright try to figure out their prob- lems. BELOW: Only crazy Laura Hackley could find something funny in a hard problem. ABOVE: The Algebra I class looks a bit dejected as Mr. Dixson assigns more homework. Oh well, that’s life. ABOVE: Mark Devin laughs at Kim Charowas as she gives a wrong answer in Algebra II. Math 21

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Math: Educational Mut 3m You have probably seen equations like this before x - 6 x = 8 whether it be in Geometry. Advanced Math, Algebra, or even General Math. Math is very impor- tant for our education. At times it may seem hard and meaningless but this year Dr. Dixson has tried to make it a little more exciting for his students. Mr. Dixson had a special bulletin board on which he put up the names of the stu- dents who showed outstanding effort dur- ing the week. Their names fell under the titles of computer, workputer. and neat- puter. For those whose work was not quite up to par got their name under the titles of dumbputer, loafputer, and slobputer. The names changed from week to week to give the student something to strive for. Mr. Winn may not have had any fancy bulletin boards but he still kept his High school classes interested. Aside from his highschool classes Mr. Winn also spent most of the day teaching the Junior High a variety of courses. St. Xaviers will be looking for two new Math teachers next year. Mr. Dixson will be leaving for Ingalls, Kansas, while Mr. Winn will go home to Oklahoma. BELOW: Mr. Dixson relaxes while the rest of the class works hard. ABOVE: Tina Rausch looks as if she’s sleeping in class again! ABOVE: While waiting to hear the assign- ment. Kim Charowhas dreams of becoming a math teacher. ABOVE: Mr. Dixson watches Albert Hof- meister, as Al works on another math prob- lem. 20 Math

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$ciemet Zke A et Of 2Ha0 - 2H 2 + 0,. Sound famil- iar? That seemed to be the basic equation balanced in Sister Mary’s chemistry class. If you think that’s all they learned, you’re wrong. Besides balancing equations, the eager chemistry students did experiments with un- predictable results, and learned all about the periodic table. Physics was Sister Mary’s other class and she’ll probably say it was a little rough, but after a little hard work and determination, they did manage to learn a few things. They learned a lot about light, heat, and wave lengths which will hopefully get them somewhere in life. The other science teacher was Mr. Kline. He had the task of teaching the basics of science in a class called general science. The students had to work hard to ab- sorb all the knowledge that Mr. Kline tried to teach them, which included the basics of an atom, the neutron, electron, and proton. The other class taught by Mr. Kline was biology. What’s biology you say? Well, It’s crayfish, frogs, amphibians, metacarpals and ecology all rolled into one. The students were able to learn about these things by doing worksheets, term papers, and a day of teaching class all by themselves. They seemed to thoroughly enjoy doing each. BELOW: Joey Wright dreams of the weekend instead of thinking about Biol- BELOW: Mary Farlow attempts to ogy. finish her long physics assignment. ABOVE: Val Elliott hands out papers while the rest of the class express disgust at their scores. LEFT: Sister Mary attempts to answer one of the many questions from her Chemis- try students.