Wayzata High School - Wayako Yearbook (Wayzata, MN)

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Composition, Literature Share English Spotlight The freshmen really had their work cut out for them this year! Basically, their program dealt with learning to write creatively, coherently and logically. Their written short stories, poems, and themes were based on the literature they had to analyze. While the freshmen wrote, the sophomores studied short stories, modern novels. Shakespeare's classic. Julius Caesar, and George Eliot's Silas Marner. Junior instructors planned standardized procedures for their classes in many aspects of junior English. This year, each junior chose whether or not he wonted to do a research paper. For the first time at WHS the juniors desiring an ''A or a 'B for the year had to top off already stiff requirements with an oral examination. This examination, in informal discussion form, was held ofter school with the three eleventh grade instructors. Poems, plays and short stories were covered as the seniors delved into English literature. Expository writing based on a study of literature ranging from Macbeth to Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer were completed by many in the class of ‘63. While some had their difficulties, the seniors last exposure to high school English was unforgettable. Ninth graders with if could nave boon this easy. Mr. Douglas Sarff. 13 Gold 'n Blu oditors, Chrissy 8aldwin, left, and Kath Cargill, adviso the adviser. Mr. Don Frcoberq, in the PUB.

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Juniors and seniors spent many hours involved in research that ranged from Mecboth to divorce laws. Mr. Loyol Farrell aids Pieter Visser, left, and Dick Williams during their many sessions in the library. 12

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Gr«tch. get your thumb off the scale! Gretchen Brewer, left, end Corol Wightman. Odors and Dissection Fascinate Science Students The science department had an extensive and expanding program; it included courses in physical science, chemistry, biology, and physics. Chemistry students this year were introduced to a new teacher, Mr. James Hembre. Students set earnestly to work learning scientific laws and periodic charts. They discovered the correct way to boil water and how to compute mole fractions. Perhaps the odors escaping this classroom were not os pleasing as those of the home economics class down the hall, however, the juniors and seniors taking chemistry didn't seem to mind. The biology courses were directed by Mr. Duane Bittle and Mr. Cedric Dettlof. Though squeamish at first, the students enjoyed the traditional dissection of worms, clams, and learned the various cell structures through microscopic scrutiny. Physical science classes studied a wide scientific range which included astronomy and the earth sciences. The classes, under the competent direction of Mr. Leland Fretheim and Mr. Lowell Kleppe, were a demonstration course, but next year will become a laboratory course. Mr. Cedric Dettlof taught two classes of earnest physics students. They studied theoretical science laws and performed various experiments including floating various objects in water at any chosen level and bending glass with bare hands. The science department staff is now preparing for the revisions that will be made in the courses next year in the move to the new senior high building. 14 ■'Hydrochloric acid, vintage 1919. Mr. James Hembre, left, and Mr. Cedric Dettlof.