Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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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,

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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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ast to get out of school and once iu get rolling, you can occasionally ck up a trophy. Although acquiring the basic iowledge and skill for taking and ,ssing math tests, there were a few ,ht moments in the classrooms. For example, Senior Russ Althof id, I like it, it's a great class. We ,vays have fun with the attendance rker upper taidel in my calculus Lssf' The class cleverly disguised c pink attendance slip each day by lding it in various shapes, placing n other objects, and even ripping into small pieces when no one s absent. However, at the end of quarter, the class gave the office rker a trophy for being a good ri. Vac 'Y his x's andy's straight in his l class, Freshman Brian Fisher his paper. He says, We get a lot of homework, but it is Sitting in Miss Virginia HilI's fifth period Algebra Il class, Sophomore Ernie Segundo looks up to take a break from the assignment, while his classmates Sophomores Sims Duncan, Stuart Murray, Randy Mills, Mai Angarano and lunior Keith English, remain busy at work, Ernie said, Algebra is better than geometry. Learning about logarithms and things is pretty fun, but kind of hard. Searching through her notes, lun ior Tracey Taylor has fun in Algebra ll even though it's a hard class. She says she agrees with most students about the excessive amount of homework, but thinks Miss l-lill is really nice. When tSophomorel Susan Million and I miss class because of swim team, she lets us make it up. l Contemplating a lesson in his calc ulus book, Senior Russ Althof works on his homework which Mrs Mabee let us work on in class sometimes because we always hadna lot of it. In preparation for his Algebra ll exam, lunior David Cardus begins working on Mrs. Marion Wiggins review sheet. David says he found studying for finals hard because I can't remember everything we've done and have to dig out all of my old notes. math TU