West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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As sophomores we passed the science labora- tories with sidelong looks of awe, but as juniors we boldly entered the physics room to learn about heat, light, sound, gases, and such under MISS MARY BUSHONG. When we were sen- iors, the mysterious “‘smell’”’ that issued from the chem lab no longer filled us with terror, and we smiled wisely when questioned and replied, “Oh, that? Why that’s just some hydrogen sul- fide. ’ The study of chemistry and its by prod- ucts is especially important to us in these years of synthetic substitutions.

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Page 10 The familiar cloud of chalk dust, the bang of rulers, and the murmur of “‘ciphering’’ students gave evidence of the math classes. MISS BERNICE FITES and MR. CARMEN FABIAN took turns in directing our paths through the intricacies of geometry, advanced algebra, and trigonometry. Logarithms, square roots, sines and cosines took new meaning when we realized the important part precision instruments, en- gineéering projects, and global airways will play in winning the peace.

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Soctal Studies All of us are acquainted with MR. CHESTER EDDY “MR JOSEPH MEGA RT and. Mik. HOWARD EVANS, who are our social studies instructors. Living in a time when we read | daily of history in the making, we find new significance in events printed in our history books. Rome became alive again with Mus- solini’s capture and with American soldiers on the Italian front. We can contrast the glory of ancient Greece with its starved children of to- day. We experienced anew the terror of the Huns. To our American history we can add the names of brave men and brave events, and we feel the urge to double our war effort to ‘“make democracy live’’. Page 12