Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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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

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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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GD dxldx, erdx. Secant, tangeant, Ecosine, sine, 314159, Square root, cube root, fourth root, slide rule, compass, Stratford I-Iigh. Although this mathematical cheer was rarely heard, students learned many mathematical terms and how they applied to totaling the grocery bill or finding the slope and acceler- it adds up ation of a specific curve. Since students were required to take two mathematical courses to graduate, and students' mathemati- cal abilities varied, the subject mate- rial ranged from the Fundamentals of Math to Calculus to electives in computermath. Many students continued to take math for four years especially in the T8 math .,....--11.18 .bww advanced courses such as Trigon metry and Elementary Analysis. Ea- of these added to a well-roundi background for a student interesti in majoring in the science, eng neeringormathematicalfields. Most students, though, just toj their required math courses to g enough knowledge to help them successful in college. Interested and select students al attended various area math tourr ments and participated in tl National Math Exam and Atlan' Pacific testing programs, Iunior Laurie Mango, a freque participator in math contests coi mented, I think the experience taking the timed tests helps impro your speed on your regular tes and it also prepares you for college Senior I-Iarold Naparst said, lt' - T Carefully programming the c lunior Iohn London punches the the tele-type terminal as Ravi junior, and Gavriel Schindler, junior look on in computer math. Iohn to take this course because he said thought working with the cor , ' would be enjoyable. Now he finds fantastic and different. You need extremely logical mind. Patiently listening to a lecture in Algebra I, Sophomore Mark Pe receives instructions from Miss Isaacks. Mark said he was surprised find out I had a test that day,