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Gifted students
Fred Templin, judge.
Thomas F. Feeney, Principal of
West Side Area Vocational-Techni-
cal School has announced the names
of those students who will be placed
on the honor roll for the second
marking period.
GRADE 9 - HIGHEST HONORS:
Lon Cottle, Debbie Koprowski,
Susan Monigas, Mark Sadowski,
Tracy Sanguiliano.
GRADE 9 - HIGH HONORS: Hoa
Minh Doan, Kevin Hunter, Drue
Inman, Brian Murphy.
GRADE 9 - HONORS: Nicole Cip-
riani, Lisa Hales, Daniel Miller,
Kris Senchak, Erika Smallcomb,
Thomas Vasicak, Lisa Wishinski.
‘GRADE 10 - HIGHEST HONORS:
Linda Bobeck, Dawn Finney, Mary
Finney, Lydia Glatz, Sean Heidig,
Robert Roccograndi.
GRADE 10 - HIGH HONORS:
Robert Koprowski.
GRADE 10 - HONORS: Lisa Hous-
sock, Donn Hunter, Kathleen
Kaminski, Anthony Klukosky, Alli-
son Meyers, Diane Petrauskas,
Kimberly Pocono, Cheryl Simon,
Valeri Spinicci; Michael Thomas.
GRADE 11 - HIGHEST HONORS:
Jodie Halat, Michael Marinos,
Heather Sanguiliano.
GRADE 11 -
Cindy Meade, Steve Richard, Val-
erie Storz, Joseph Valvano.
GRADE 11 - HONORS: Patrick
Brennen, Sandra Casey, Monte Eve-
land, Richard Gabriesheski, Kim-
berly Hanadel, John Hopkins, Chris
James, Ann Marie Jenkins, Mark
Kodra, Ann Langan, Amy Loberg,
Gina Sitkowski, Gary Symons.
GRADE 12 - HIGHEST HONORS:
Janet Blaine, Colleen Caffrey, Polly
Hughes, Margaret Kaschak, Martha
Miller, Raymond Miller, Carla
Padavan, Susan Podskoch, Wendy
Roushey, David Sheply, Kim Vasi-
cak, Paul Zablotney.
GRADE 12 - HIGH HONORS:
James Cwalina, Thomas Feeney,
William Fox, Dorothy Hartman,
James Mazeika, David Monk,
Michael Novak, Nick Pallone, Gary
Young.
GRADE 12 - HONORS: Lisa
Adamitz, William Berlew, Christo-
pher Brin, Karen Ceppa, Damian
Englehart, Paul Feeney, Brian
Grdzalla, Judith Gilligan, Barbara
Gorgan, Michelle Hooper, Kim Jan-
usziewicz, Julie Kaminski, Kenneth
Lutz, Tammy Nafus, Theresa
Newhart, Francis Prsons, Stacey
Pearce, Angela Philpot, Thomas
Skiro, David Sutton, Peri-Sue Wolfe.
Local coordinators are needed to
assist foreign students, interview
potential host families, and work
with area high schools in developing
the Academic Year in America pro-
gram sponsored by the American
Institute For Foreign Study Scholar-
ship Foundation, of Greenwich, Con-
necticut.
The AIFS Scholarship Foundation,
a non profit organization founded in
1967, sponsors educational ‘travel
experiences for young people to
promote worldwide understanding
through cross-cultural exchange.
Each year high school age students
from over 12 countries come to the
U.S. to live with an American Host
Family, attend the local high school
and take part in the daily life of the
community as participants in the
available for sale.
$5.
print.
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Academic Year In America pro-
gram.
For additional information on how
you can share in this rewarding
experience by becoming a Local
Coordinator write: American Insti-
tute for Foreign Study Scholarship
Foundation, Dept. PR-15, 100 Green-
wich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecti-
cut 06830 or call the Foundation, toll
free at 800-243:4567. (In Connecticut
call 203-625-0755)
HEY
KIDS!
(TO AGE 12)
Joe Jeffers, Ph.
ND.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: ‘‘Common
Sense’ is a science column written
by Joe Jeffers, Ph.D. Jeffers
received the Ph.D. in. molecular
biology and biochemistry from
Purdue University. He teaches
chemistry and biology at Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia,
Arkansas. ‘Common Science” is
sponsored by The National Science
Foundation and appears periodi-
cally in The Dallas Post.)
Every 100 years the Chinese
umbrella bamboo flowers and dies.
It does produce seed, of course, so
another 100 year cycle can begin.
The 17-year cicada of North Amer-
ica spends 17 years in its juvenile
form feeding on the sap of plant
roots underground. Then in a period
of a few weeks the adults emerge,
mate, and lay their eggs. The young
hatch and burrow underground not
to be seen for another 17 years. The
Palolo worm of the south pacific
near Samoa lives on the coral reef.
Each October and November at
dawn on the first day of the last
quarter of the moon, they release
foot-long reproductive segments
that float to the top of the water and
burst open, whereupon millions of
sperm and eggs are released to
fertilize and fall back to the coral
reef to begin new Palolo worms.
Events like these that seem to be
so accurately timed are rather
common place in nature. Living
creatures seem to possess clocks
that allow them to keep track of
time with amazing precision. What
kinds of clocks exist and how do
they work? All of the answers are
not known.
It is clear that planetary move-
ment exerts a powerful environmen-
tal influence on biological rhythms.
Circadian rhythms, which occur
daily, follow the light-dark cycle of
the earth’s rotation; seasonal
revolution about the sun; lunar
rhythms (monthly) seem tied to the
revolution of the moon about the
earth; and tidal rhythms result due
to the gravitational effects of the
patterns. Body temperasture, for
example, rises gradually to a peak
about noon, then tapers off through
the remainder of the day, dropping
more abruptly at bedtime. Studies
on persons show abilities like multi-
plication speed and accuracy differ,
during the day and seem to follow
the same basic pattern as body
temperature. (Students take your
math tests late in the morning!)
Laboratory animals placed in
artificial light environments that
are several hours out of phase with
the outside world will change their
activity patterns to fit this new
artificial day. Light appears to syn-
chronize the clock. If, however,
these same animals are then kept in
total darkness for several weeks,
their “‘daily’’ activity patterns will
readjust to the daytime pattern
outside, even though they cannot
see it.
Experiments have been conducted
where persons are allowed to ‘‘free
run,” adapt to their own schedules.
In these cases a person is placed
where he cannot know whether it is
day or night outside and he has no
watch. He maintains his own sched-
ule of sleeping and waking. Most
persons drift into a pattern of
- approximately a day with the aver-
age being 25.8 hours.
Annual or seasonal rhythms seem
to be photoperiodic, that is they are
triggered by changes in duration
and perhaps intensity of daylight.
Consider the flowering of plants.
Leaves react to length of day by
producing hormones which switch
on flower production. Some plants
are short day plants and flower only
in the winter. Others are long day
plants and flower only in the
summer.
Several are neutral and flower
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seems to be internal. These external
events may only serve to keep the
clock synchronized.
Let’s look first at circadian
rhythms. Functions like body tem-
perature, urine flow, hormone levels
and sleep-wake cycles follow daily
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regardless of the length of day. In
the summer of 1920 researchers
took the Maryland Mammoth
tobacco plant, which normally flow-
ers only during the short days of
winter, and covered it for part of
the day. The plant was ‘‘fooled’’ into
flowering during the hot part of
summer. Obviously temperature
was not the trigger for flowering.
Since that time plants have been
ing at odd times of the year by
exposure to artificial daylight.
Duration and intensity of light
seem to trigger animal reproduction
too. Most wild creatures that
reproduce once a year do so in the
spring. It is important, of course,
for all members of the same group
be ready to reproduce at the same
time. Again light variations just
serves to synchronize the process.
Sheep kept in continuous artificial
light for three years still breed at
the same time as other sheep kept
under natural conditions.
Tidal and lunar rhythms are also
common. Tidal patterns are based
on 24.8 hours rather than 24. Fiddler
crabs are active at low tides. If
fiddler crabs are ketp in a labora-
tory in total darkness, they still
have activity cycles that correspond
to low tides. Adult human females
show a lunar rhythm in that they
produce eggs once per lunar month.
Much remains to be learned about
how the internal clock works. It is
known that the pineal gland of fish,
birds, reptiles and mammals is
involved. If it is removed, daily and
seasonal patterns are upset. Deer
produce antlers at the wrong time;
birds lose the urge to migrate. The
pineal gland produces the hormone
melatonin. Light inhibits its produc-
tion; it is made at night.
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