Creighton Preparatory School - Jay Junior Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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l MATH TEACHERS Mr. Dudley D. Allen, Mr Philip J Gradoville Mr Richard J. Bayer, Mr. Stanley E. Macaitis, Rev T R Haller SJ Mr RobertW Miller. Mr. Allen is head track coach, helps with football and basketball and directs an ambitious physical training progiam Messis Gradoville Bayer Macaitis, and Miller are also coaches. Fr Hallei a iadio ham makes his station available to students. Both Rev. W. J. Dressel, S.J., and Rev. R. J. Strange, S.J., have attended summer institutes in physics which are sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Fr. Dressel is very active in organizations of physics teachers. He is amember of the com- mittee which is preparing for the National Science Teachers' Association's annual convention. The walls of the physics lab are bursting with equipment, but Fr., Dressel wants more equipment, more experiments. When 1'1Ot setting up a lab experiment, or teaching one of his senior physics classes, he is inventing a new ripple tank, or hopping a plane for Chicago to report on the progress of his Advanced Topics course. Mr. George M. Kocsis bears the full brunt of the junior chemistry course. He also is head coach of baseball. Mr. S. F. Dieringer, in his forty-third year of teaching at Prep, has been head of the biology department for a long time. The Rev. T. R. Haller, S.J., is the driving power behind mathematics, and one of the most dynamic teachers in the school. He attended a NSF institute in mathematics, as Mr, R. W. Miller intends to do this summer. Mr. Clement Hogan, with more than forty years of teaching, has become a tradition at Prep. Mr. Dudley Allen coaches freshman football, runs physical education classes, and teaches algebra. Mr. Philip Gradoville, Mr. Richard Bayer, Mr. Stan Macaitis, and Mr. Miller handle most of the mathematics for the underclassmen.

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Looking Back Mr. Leahy's course on communism has received fine pub- licity in the local papers, and in state and national magazines. DEMOCRACY VERSUS COMMUNISM is the text used and the approach is interesting, practical, and factual. The classrooms of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Brosnihan were decorated with Dow- Jones charts as they studied the economics of the stock market. Mr. Terry O'Neil, Prep '57, a stock broker, spoke to the classes and gave them a tour of a brokerage house. The special American History classes taught by Fr. Neenan are worthy of particular mention. ln these two sophomore classes the students do not use a textbook. Weekly assignments in indi- vidual topics all related to a certain period of history send the students to the library for research. They must investigate from four to ten historical sources on the topic. Written and oral re- ports on this research are due on Mondays. The students take notes and discuss the reports. This year the survey of American History passed the Civil War at Christmas and was completed before Easter. The last six weeks of the year were spent on state and local governments and the Omaha City Charter. F r. Neenan plans to offer an advanced survey course next year to ten stu- dents who have completed the initial course. Until recently, Fr. Neenan taught an afternoon course at Creighton University on Teaching History in Secondary School. HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY TEACHERS Mr. F. J. Gerut moderates the school newsmagazine Head Munch, Mr. Don Leahy, Mr. W. F. Gerut, S,J.g Mr. swimming coach and basketball coach 'ue Mr R. C. Clark, S.J.g Mr. J. F. Jackson, Mr. T. T. Jackson .and Mr. Brosnihan respectively F1 Brosnihan, Rev, R. P. Neenan, S.J. Mr. Leahy is Neenan is Alumni Director Director of Athletics and head football coach. Mr. Rev. H. C. Brahm, S.J., is student counsellor for all the freshmen. He also directs the choir. Pictured here with Fr. Brahm is Bob O'Doherty.

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The Future Belongs to the Mathematicians and euentusts The Rev. W. J. Dressel, S.J., teaches physics. His lab and its equipment keep him busy most of each day. Mr. S. F. Dieringer, Mr. C. J. Hogan, Mr. G. M. Kocsis, and Rev. R. J. Strange, S.J. Mr. Dieringer teaches biology. Mr. Hogan and Fr. Strange divide their time between physics and mathematics. Mr. Kocsis handles chemistry.