Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Mathematics, science stimulated urge for Geometry students found fhot a chort wos very helpful in the solution of some problems Eogcr-to-leom olgebro students listened attentively os Mr. E S. Goforth explained how to opply the rules of olgebro to their problems The application of logarithms to trigonometry problems was o short-cut to finding onswcrs for trig students.

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ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE Through the study of English, students de- veloped skill m using their longuoge effec- tively ond occurotely Students conrvot mos- ter their own longuoge until they know its grommor thoroughly Once this bosic knowl- edge is ocquired, the study of foreign lon- guoge is mode cosier English students olso studied literoture, which includes the rcoding ond understood- mg of novels, short stones, ond ploys In or- der to understond their reading better, stu- dents were tought something about the ou- thors ond the types of stories each author generolly wrote Study of literoture helped them I corn to express themselves more cleor- ly Students soon reolixed that o funda- mental knowledge of English skills is neces- sary m order to ochieve success in ony field They olso were owore that a successful fu- ture depends upon being oble to communi- cate their ideas successfully to other people Foreign longuoge. like English, hos dif- ferent phoses grommor, which mokes up o large port of ony longuoge. ond, to take the ploce of literoture. conversation This year Tolleston students were aided much by the new longuoge lobs No matter what longuoge they studied- Lotin. Spanish. French, or Ger- man--students, of ter studying grommor ond vocabulary words for many wccks.found them- selves ready to use the new lobs These lobs were equipped with tope re- corders which enabled students to record their voices, ploy the recording, ond heor mistakes in their pronunciation This method, by helping students correct themselves, en Obled them to moster languages foster With the use of the new longuoge lobs, leornmg to speoK foreign longuoges wos easier foreign languages Mrs. A F. Thompson stressed to Lofm students thot the Lotin longuoge lives todoy 11

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advanced study In todoy's highly scientific world, much emphasis is placed on the need for knowledge in the fields of science and mathematics. Since today's students must be well-equipped to take their place in on age in which science and mathematics play greater roles than ever in the post, Tolleston's curriculum offered a variety of courses which gave students the basic fundamentals in these two fields. Diversified courses gave scientifically in- clined students the background necessary for further study. Biology and bio-physical sci- ence students learned, not only of all the different kinds of plants and animals, but ol- so how they eat, breathe, grow, reproduce, and of their other habits of life. In chemistry students dealt with the composition of sub- stances and the reactions of certain elements to one another. Physics taught them the appli- cation of scientific theories concerning mot- ter, its motions ond physical changes, and the energy which makes this possible Besides the general mothematics courses which were offered, students who wished to delve deeper into mathematics hod the op- portunity to take Algebra I, Advanced Alge- bro, Plane Geometry, Trigonometry, ond on introductory course to calculus. First-yeor algebra students leorned the basic rules and formulos, and their applica- tion to problems Plane Geometry students were exposed to geometric figures, axioms, theorems, compasses, and protroctors. Ad- vanced algebra students probed into a more detailed study of olgebraic principles. In trigo- nometry students studied the triangle and its relationship to its sides and angles Advanced moth students, being introduced to calculus, learned o new method of mathematical com- putation using algebraic symbols. With this background in science ond mothemotics, students were prepared to face the chollenge that college ond the adult world would pose. By performing this experiment, physics students in the new theoreticol physics course obtained do to for computing the occclerotion of o falling body due to gravity at this latitude Jocquelme Cox, under Woodie Gra- dy's direction, collected gos from heated, burning sulfur. Then she collected the gos from nitric ocid when copper removed the ood’s hydrogen. Finally, she reocted both gasses ond obtained o new ocid ond a solt.