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

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Steve Kasnett and Jim Baxter listen to 'Rosemary Redding expound on the folk lore origins of Roman civilization, Social Studies Senior students in Sociology!Eco- nomics didn't just talk about panic or crowd moodg they simulated them to emphasize the unpredictability of mass behavior. In World History the students jour- neyed from primitive man to the present, stopping briefly at the Greek city-states and the Roman Empire, to analyze Pericles or Caesar. Students scurried to prepare re- ports on these subjects and others more esotericg a report on Greek food and drink saw the main exhibit de- voured by an eager class. The students in Pan Am!Far East, Economics!Sociology, and Problems of Democracy eagerly Watched the current world situation. They discuss- ed developments from Cuba to Cape- town, using the New York Times as a reference. Art Schwenger, Chip Owen, and Robley Backus dissect the gastro- ' intestinal tract of a cat, the next best thing to a human cadaver. Bob Holland, measuring distance with a parallax, shows Roger Traub that physics has made a definite imprint on his mind. 26 Departments

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Language When the audio-lingual system ex- pands the teaching of modern langu- ages, the Language Department will institute a regular credit French 5 course. This year those students who had already finished with the first four years of French studied in a non- credit course. They read Stendha1's Le Rouge et le Noir and Marcel Proust's Combray. Interest was sufficient this year to offer Spanish 4 for the first time. Here students read Espana y su Civil- izacion and Maria while their less ad- vanced fellows in Spanish 3 and 2 read El Frijolito Salton and Platero y Yo. Latin 4 students read Vergil, com- paring his concept of the land of the dead with that of Milton and Dante. Dave Dierker listens in fascination as his teacher expounds in audio-lingual Spanish. Departments 25 xx 'R ,-f'a,a- W Barbara Heider, Ann Showalter, and Dick Mortimer, Pitch staffers paste up copy on the Pitch before sending it to the printer .v '42 x M-'95

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, 1 , , ,L Q V i .g 1 'A A. N' 1 . ff- 'Ks-. fl 7 Lys Dave Hoyle and Pablo Drobney attempt to prove scientifically that light travels in a straight line in their physics class. Science A heavy schedule, consisting of genetics, botany, and Zoology, prepar- ed the Biology 1 student for further experimenting. In Biology 2 students explored the chemical aspects of the physiology of a typical mammal, the cat. They util- ized this information to pursue the histological structures in the new radiation laboratory. Here they stud- ied the effects of radio isotopes on living tissues. The students also con- ducted experiments in the separation of amino acids by paper chromato- graphy. Chemistry c l a s s e s experimented with a new method of teaching. Uni- que experiments developed by each student led classes to diverse conclu- sionsg resultant teaching machines and logic appeared among test tubes and Bunsen burners. In the physics classes, the study of light, movable objects, electricity and atomic theory received emphasis. Departments 27