West High School - Cat Log Yearbook (Bremerton, WA)

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SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AIDS STUDENTS IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE lt has often been said that we are living in the age of science. lf this is true, then certainly v '?' Margaret Linden watches intently as Larry Gillespie performs a physics experiment on Boyle's low. fA.m.J.,,...4,,Zg4--r-J.g7z!a.-1--L. Z . df-4 David Rid ewa , Bonnie Bass and Jack Davies examine a cac- Y 9 Y tus plant in their botany class. 6 a great many of our students at West High School are going to feel right at home in our world of the future, for almost one-half of the students are enrolled in a science this year. This program has a two-fold purpose. First, college-bound students can benefit a great deal from adequate high school preparation. Sec- ondly, students who do not plan to continue their formal education beyond high school graduation can profit greatly by gaining a better under- standing of themselves and the world in which they will live. General science has as its goal introducing the student to a wide range of scientific topics, from bugs and bacteria to stars and space ships to weather and X-rays. Biology, botany and Zoology are designed to give the student an appreciation and a working knowledge of the living world and man's place in that world. Physics and chemistry enable the student to understand his physical surroundings that are becoming increasingly important to man. This includes such things as atoms, molecules, heat, light, sound and radioactivity. All of these things, we feel, will lead us to a better, happier, and fuller life. P' i

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MORE LANGUAGES AT WEST GO ln keeping with The national Trend, West High students are becoming tremendously interested in foreign languages. This is evidenced by The fact that this year there are six French, four German, nine Spanish, five Latin classes, and one Russian class. This year for The first Time a Third year of Spanish, French and German are being offered. The purpose of These courses is To increase oral fluency and reading ability. Another advanced course being taken by West High students is Russian, which is taken at Olympic College. Three students from West Travel to East for Third-year German, while Two students from East Take Third- year French at West. The United States government now offers scholarships to Teachers of foreign languages so that They may improve Their Teaching Techniques. Many current oral Teaching methods are being investigated and employed by Teachers in our language department. Miss Betty Anderson, Ger- man teacher, spent last summer at a government language institute at The University of Washing- TOD. Future plans for The department include a listening and recording language laboratory. ln third-year Spanish The Tape-recorder has already been used and found To be a very satisfactory method. Next year The foreign language depart- ment is expected To be bigger than ever. Through this added interest West High students show that they are willilng and able To face The future in an expanding world. HAND-IN-HAND WITH SPACE AGE --..- Reading French newspapers ond magazines is o part of the study in the new third-year conversational French class. Here Cleft to rightl Sharon Craig, Diann Howe and Joe Korchesy help Nancy Muller with a difficult word. These German words may look strange, but Leslie Riechmann lleftl and Ron Bobior seem to be having no trouble with the declension of der. X M 1 ,ef IN-4 Swap V , A A F A 5

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MATHEMATICS, SOCIAL STUDIES INTRODUCE PUPILS TO WORLD Constructing solid geometry proiects are one phase of math analysis. Shown here lleft to rightl are John Turner, Bob Wil- liams and Richard Capp examining these models of geometry theorems. Dixie Miller is pointing out the scene of African racial violence to her World Affairs classmate Ron Marshall. -... s V K, ff, -p f ,, 'ciiggggg yjfllhi :R Qgllfkh i si is 'ii . is 5 , 5 1 A mathematics department must provide the mathematical tools needed in everyday living. General and business mathematics are designed to achieve this goal. Second, it must provide a foundation for those who will be taking mathe- matics and science in college. Our third and fourth-year courses help prepare students for such advanced work. The mathematics program has been under- going modernization in the past several years. We can be proud of these and other improve- ments to meet the demands of the Space Age. Six semester courses in social studies are re- quired of all students for graduation in order to understand rapidly changing concepts of space in a sputnik age. Freshmen are required to study one-half year of geography. They also must take Washington history and civics. .luniors study United States history in order that they may in- terpret the historical, social and economic forces that will affect them during the '6O's Seniors take government and world affairs to enable them to participate in democratic processes and to under- stand the two great systems and their satellites that are competing for world domination. Students who wish may elect to take social living, a life adiustment course. .c ,N MWMNM 41... - ass-1 ' Q' ,tri 1 7