Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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Vanguard PSSC System Steers Physics Courses This year for the first time all the physics courses adopted the Physical Science Study Committee cur- riculum, increasing the work load and shifting the emphasis from sheer fact-devouring to thinking, reasoning, and experimenting. A fast-paced sched- ule of movies and experiments, lectures, reading, and problem-solving reached the s t u d e n t with knowledge of optics and kinematics through all his senses. The most sluggish curiosity was active by June, for the purpose of this course was as much to raise questions as to answer them. The questions raised in Biology 2 were partially answered, at least as the classes selected scalpels and skillfully dissected deceased rats and cats, learning more and more about the nervous, muscu- lar, reproductive, and skeletal systems as they dug deeper and deeper into the prone rodents and supine felines. Physics and Biology Club members seemed to be going through a second childhood, as they wander- ed dazedly with 'tSlinkys in hand or chased about after butterflies. These students were actually doing some dedicated delving into topics like wave motion and lepidopterology. Mr. Lewis Sanford Chemistry, Wheel Club Mr. James W. Woodward Chemistry, Physics ffl 0205- Dr. John H. Woodburn Chemistry, Phi Sigma Alpha Mrs. Constance P. Wrench Biology 1 , 3 Aw .. i 5 WQQHP 5 r fag W L., 'ff 1 f Misfi- - ,L Q , . - ' , , .fw:',efm1 Q ,8 qi Departments 135

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Mr. Alan M. Harrison Chairman, Science De- partment: Biology 1, 23 Biology Club Mr. C. H. Breedlove Chemistry 5 Chemistry Lab Assistants ff 1 Q? W -:P , x J: iyfi if if 1 1 aa Mr. Robert Burke Biology 1 Mr. J. A. Miers Physicsg Physics Club Book Store rn , A-Q Miss Vernane Beste Biology 1 Mr. Edward Burgee Biology 1 'Q V , is 4 fs Q, o f ffif..if'f1 ' ?Y3f?fi'fff 7 15. 'Q' .vi . Q 9 Mrs. Annette Lee Physical Science, Biology 1 Miss Maxine Miller Biology 15 Sophomore Tri-Hi-Y is 9 ' 9 Ned Conklin, WJ's own Glenn T. Seaborg, conducts an experi ment on his Fischer burner on the combustion of marsh mallows. Physics Club: first row: M. Karel, M. Havard, R. M. John- son, E. McKay, R. Traub, P. Tourin, F. Hoeuackg second: C. Brown, B. Reuter, J. Norman, D. Bright, E. Holdenried, S. Kazelett, P. Dennisg third: J. D. Hart, C. Robertson, J. Weiss, S. Nelson, President J. Zornig, T. Conroy, G. Flynn, N. Jeweler. These future physicists were given opportunity to advance their scientific skills through lectures.

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Lab Assistants: first row: E. Eysenburg, S. Goldberg, R. Ladd, Hendrix, E. Holdenried, L. Taylor, R. Nelson, S. Van Swartz, C. Crocker, J. Engleman, L. Mohr, G. Nepple, A. Schwengerg T. Conroy, J. Olksy, D. Ingwersen, R. McBride aid teachers second: M. Kahal, C. Robertson, B. Osborne, K. Telfer, H. in grading tests, conducting lab periods, cleaning and caring I-Iimel, R. Hardy, R. Morgan, S. Caplan, D. Koller, third: M. L. for materials and animals and grading tests. Kirk Ditzler watches the spotlight effect as he moves a light more than half of the class time was devoted to laboratory work bulb toward a concave mirror. In the PSSC study of optics investigating the particle and wave theories of light motion. mv l' M, my-. R 1 'M' xx , 'lu'