Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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SCIENCES Attention all Science teachers! Repeat this handy phrase at least five times a day: If I am enthusiastic, I have nothing to fear from my students; I have nothing to fear; I have nothing to fear! Mr. Ralston grimaces painfully as another beaker crashes to the floor. Mr. Detrick watches suspiciously in order to discour- age the plans of his students to detonate the whole school. The female students in Biology gaze at Mrs. Lipton in wonder that she is not only willing but able to touch those horrid old frogs. Mr. Starr patiently teaches the rudiments of science to his freshman General Science classes. The Science Department has become adjusted to the new labs and equipment. The beautifully smooth, bright green lab tables are now beginning to look acid stained and corroded. The once clean and shining glass instru- ments are now chemically encrusted. These labs, which have expanded the science program at W.H.S., are looking lived in. Mr. Joseph Ralston quizzes his physics stu- dents; Miss Mar, what is the coefficient of linear expansion of a piece of am war? Mrs. Paula Lipton instructs the biology classes in the social significance of the birds and the buzzin ' insects. The chemistry instructor, Mr. Ronald De- trich, presides over the chaos resulting from a batch of students turned locse with a batch of chemicals.

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As we arrive in the world of nouns and pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, we see the freshmen brow beat- ers, Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. Wadley, performing the excit- ing whims of English. Our next stop is at an interjection! We find sophomore tribunes to Julius Caesar with Mr. Stallings and Mr. Lotz. You say you don ' t know what a preposition is? Well, Mrs. Ray can explain the whole or- deal to you juniors. Finally, we reach the co-ordinate con- junction of the English language to English literature. Who else could connect these two but Mrs. Tobias? Ask any freshman or sophomore taking Latin what his favorite subject is. If he or she is taking Latin, one will invariably get the same answer . . . lunch! Mrs. Kempshall guides the declension-blinded students through the laby- rinths of Latin. Monsieur Lotz dictates to the class. N ' ecrivez pas dans ce livre. The French 2 students are naturally very exper- ienced and can translate this incredibly complicated exam- ple of French syntax in a little under an hour. One of the high points of the year was the student plot to destroy the school ' s tape recorder. Please, ma ' am, we didn ' t mean to do that . . . You aren ' t really going to give us a test! This is a typical plea of the studious rowdies in Mrs. Near ' s Spanish class. The most frequent sentence spoken in class by Mrs. Near is: Usted es impossible! Mrs. Kempshall teaches Latin, the so-called dead language, which is still very alive in its English derivatives. Mr. Lotz is using his experience of years in France to pound the language into the heads of his pupils. Senorita Near has charge of all the Spanish- speaking aspiring youths in Westerville.

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Ed Cunningham astounds the physics class with his knowledge of the principles of flight. Mr. Starr tries to prepare his General Sci- ence pupils for the rigors of laboratory work. ART Mrs. Marilyn Miller is a welcome newcomer to Wes- terville High School ' s faculty this year, and her subject, Art, an equally welcome and significant addition to the curriculum. Artistic minded students are taught the ba- sics in color, shape, and design. Experiments in various media took place — tempera, ink, water color, and clay. Along with regular projects, the Art Department helped with signs and decorations for pep rallies, assemblies, dances and other school functions. Pop into the art room sometime and observe Mrs. Miller, pigment dripping from her fingers, bellowing, You boys, get out of the back room and PAINT!