Thornton Township High School - Thorntonite Yearbook (Harvey, IL)

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Fest Tuba Mrfgzc dividual laboratory experiments the wonders ol' science, and the remarkable ways in which modern chemistry affects lille. The need lor an understanding of chcmie cal phenomena has been reflected in the increase in enrollment from four to thirteen classes in the last six years. The two well-equipped laboratories are in al- most constant use during the school day and after school. with the students using them to discover the scientific answers to many of their everyday problems. This department is now headed by Mr. Fred Ring. PHYSICS Klr. Godwin, head of the Physics department, says that this course is to acquaint the students with what is going on around them-with their environment. The same methods are used to teach this subject as are used in the chemistry department. The student is able to gain a great deal of knowledge about the physical world. Ile comes to understand something of the pattern of the world in which he is living, and of the perfectly delinite and exact manner in which certain phenomena are produced and the logical paths they follow.

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Plant Life SCfILNCfIi DElUlRTrllEN'Ii General Science is retuiicd hx ll l' l . . - 1 'A I' a res nnen stu- dents except those girls who are talting Plnsiologv. The course, headed l ' Nl '. L' ' ' 'N ' ' ' X Jx 1 tonaid Schilh, gncs the hors and girls a gcneralizel 5 they live. Ly giving the student a hroad View of the whole lield ol scientific inquiry a haclxground is cstah- lished upon which he may rest his future courses in science. Through the taste that is given him ol' all the different elements in science, natural aptitudes and ahilities are discovered and developed. BIOLOGY The study of plant and animal organisms is unf dertalxen in the Biology department, headed by hlr. A. C. Brooldey. An interest in the outfolfdoors and nature is aroused in the student th- l ioug 1 field trips to study the local plant and animal life. Four fully euiurlll 'f ' N q Het a Joiatones are at the disposal ol the stu- dents, and here with the aid of microscopes organisms of all kinds are studied. As an integral part of the course the human hodv, its li 1, unctions, development, and care are studied. CHEMISTRY Chemistry as taught here at Thornton is primarily f X x Y. s or t L purpose ol pointing out to students hy means ol' l c assroom discussions, lecture dernonst l 23 l rations, and ine t View of the world in which Scie11tifiC Mlmcleg qv-

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xlzito .lluclmnics lhc un' is lillctl xx ith tht- clin ol' husx ltictorics thc roir ol' Mint X X. t L it , s mtichincs. uncl thc huslq' voiccs ol' gfll'I1L 'L'UYL'I'CCl mcn us thc work ol' national clclcnsc rzipicllx' progrcsscs 'lihorntoi ' ' l 1 x XX X. 1 is not icly contcnt with qi hticlt scat in this grcut prouicct. li- was during thc sunmicr ol: 1940 thin our school tinsxxcrccl thc c'1ll ol' thc Illllllllll U Q . 4 hoxcrnincnt tor thc xocgitionnl schools ol lllinois to opcn clusscs to tmin mcn lor national clelicnsc xxorlx. On 'luly S. thc lnclustritil Arts Lincl Yocationgil Dcpiirtincnt, composccl of ninc lullftiinc instructors tintl il stiperxisor. orgunixccl thrcc clay school Cltisscs xxhich lnstccl thirty hours A wccli 'I Uqing for Cight wcclxs. l lOXX'C'x'CI'. Thornton clicl not Cncl its work thcrc, lor on luly 22 four night school clzisscs wcrc lltxgklli which hnvc con- tinuccl up to thc prcscnt. with the exception ol uhout rln-cu xxcclts in Uctohcr. ln ,ILIIILILIYB thc ncccl lor zinothci' class was rcalizccl, luring- ing thc total to hw. Xlthough this xxorlt has thrown cluitc an uclclccl hurclcn on lI1Sll'LlCIOTS and cquipmcnt. Thornton is proncl to notc that instruction has hcen nmintzlinecl ut an cxtrcmcly S3IlSlxL1CfOI'5' lcxcl 'lihc lnclustrial .Xrts nncl Vocational clcpzxrtincnt stzntccl in Scp tcmhcr ol' this school tcm' with frcshnmn clzisscs in clcmcntury in clustrizil Lifts: inclustrizll zirts. shop worlx, anal lll'iUVlDQ for sophonlorcs ac l Q