Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Titrating an acid with a base, Senior David Sobocinski attempts to tind the normality of a base, given a known acid for a lab in Chemistry ll. ,, 4 , , Removing shells andsea animals, junior Steve Sahinen breaks down his aquarium in oceanography. Steve kept the aquarium for six weeks. He obtained the shells and sea animals on a field trip to Galveston. Stretched out on a Chemistry lab table, Senior Steve Carothers reads his chemistry book. Steve commented, I was pretending to read a Chemistry book, but I had my English book inside ot it. QM -tl SCIENCE ,S-

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ctice of what men like Freud orlung eached. Penior Laura Glendinning nmented We sometimes would iduct experiments in class on tavior. We did an informal survey on importance of birth order. It made concepts more real. Mrs. Benson l she feels that, Psychology is a md course because I think that today i of students can't make value gements. Psychology gives them a nce to do that. jteraction and discussion marked iology classes, too. Taught in two lrters by Mrs. Benson and Mrs. Tyson, class covered culture, family, and ld problems such as urbanization poverty. The class was meant to An understanding of society y, according to Mrs. Tyson. lt's a rse where people are interested in r people, she continued. ojects such as planning a poverty get or acting out old age with dness or arthritis brought the ld's real problems to the students. or Linda Grimsby said, Probably t I have gained the most is an ht into other peopIe's opinions. We got our teacher to tell us what she about certain subjects. One 5 a break from her work in Bible, Tahnya Ballard commented, I've a lot out of Bible because you about the Bible and the people in lass. Everyone is really open. day, Mr. Allen ilunior Principall even joined in our alcohol and drugs discussion. Dipping into morality, society and the mind interested students who wanted to compare, to discuss, to argue or just observe their fellow human beings. Sociology, Psychology and Bible offered that opportunity. After discussing racial prejudices in sociology, Seniors lulie Blaschke and Karen Hopkins change the subject and talk about a ghost organ that Iulie's grandfather owns. ' . , A 'ti' 1 V 1 , , Reading her books in Bible, lun ior Sherry lefferson learns about ludaism Sherry commented, We learned all about the Old and New Testaments and the world religions. nu? ,av social stair-nccs iuudr' HP'

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CGI ICCHHTCQCCQU it experiments with skill Does it look like a white precipitate ' to you? Were magnets really ,covered in Magne-sia? Is it Ag plus Ag plus two? Can two white dogs lly have black puppies? Huh? hese and hundreds more questions -uld faintly be heard slipping out from der the closed doors of the science sses on the third floor. Classes offered by the science partment included the usual Physical ence, Biology I and II, Chemistry I II, Physics I and II, Oceanography, Astronomy, and a new quarter course in Geology. Senior Mark Watson stated, It's not as bad as I thought it would be. I didn't want to take physics and so Geology seemed to be the next best thing. For a time, it seemed that many science students would be left without a teacher when one quit to play tennis and another quit to make money, said Department Head Tommie Steverson. Finally, things settled down, and Mr. David McCall joined the faculty as I I i Physical Science teacher. Trauma struck the science department, however, when at mid- year, a complete inventory had to be taken. Everything down to the last rubber stopper had to be counted, resulting in weeks of work and Excedrin headaches. Taking Biology I, junior Holly Hise was surprised to find that Biology was interesting and I especially liked the labs because they were better than just learning the subject from a teacher just lecturing. Darlene Wessels, sophomore, said, Mrs. Bormaster is really good at making the class interesting and it's not that bad. Contrary to popular belief, the science classes did have some lighter moments. In the middle of one of Mrs. Barbara Rose's Biology I lectures a pair of rabbits in a cage in the front of the room began to mate. In Chemistry I, Miss Kathy Vance scheduled a day to relate her famed story of her childhood cow, Daisy, and its attachment to the family pig. My trademarks are my stories and my lab coat, otherwise, it's pretty drab, said Miss Vance, Reflecting over the year's events in the science department, Miss Vance noted, We haven't even had time to put together a good party. Reading a scale, Senior Cindy Manicom measures the number of grams in an object for a lab in chemistry. Holdinga piece of paper to shield his eyes, Senior Tom Adams watches an eclipse. The eclipse occurred Feb. I9 at 9:10 a.m. and was a 65 percent eclipse. Tom commented, We got a reprint of the eclipse on a poster board, then took pictures of it during different periods of the eclipse. science 77