Walt Whitman High School 1967 Yearbook (Bethesda, MD) - Full Access

230 Mad Scientists and Space Enthusiasts "Now I'll get e\'en!" mutters rocketeer Mark Mercer as he aims his missile toward the fieldhou dome. AERO PACE RE EARCH SOCIETY Front Row: T. Hopp, S. Fos– ter. Second Row: J. Snyder, G. Jones. Third Row: P. Smjth, C. Kratzer. Fourth Row: B. Wallace, J. Hoover, M. Mercer. Demon tration performed in the wind tunnel by rnem· her of the Whitman Aero pace Research ociely enabled phy ic cla es to observe orne of the ba ic principles of aero-dynamic . The wind tunnel. unique in a Mar land high school, allowed rocketry enthu ia t to expo e their model aircraft to artificial flights before actual launching. When a nineteen-inch fan wa turned on wind blew through the tunnel at 100 feet per econd to imulate actual flight condition . Member of the club built the tunnel with urplu equipment donated by the David Taylor Model Ba in and from material bought with loan from the GA, the Mont– gomery Country Board of Education, the Wa hinoton Acad– emy of ciences, and the Whitman PTA. The Tesseract- For People Who Are Really quare wa the magazine publi hed by the Future Mad ienli ts of Am rica. Member of the club exchanged their theorie o{ ab tract mathematics and science; a favorite ubject wa fanta tic invention that probed the fourth dimen ion. Men from Mars and Flatland were al o present in the weekly book-trading e ion. Stellar formations fa cinated participant in the aturday night conclave of the A tronomy Club. Through the club' tele cope, the amateur a tronorner noted the ever-changing po ition of con tellation . 'ew of current a. tronornical event and recent re earch di coverie were debated and di cu ed at the weekly meeting . FUTURE !\fAD CIENTI T OF AMERICA Front Row: E. Vartanoff, K. Ladenheim, J. Slavin, L. Kay. Second Row: D. Ladenheim, K. Murrell, F. Ci in, . Long, J. Frey.