Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ff me ,fm Y' Social Studies Gourmet Mare Levitt, thoughtfully engrossed in an American history exam, wishes he had Hamm now. Spellbound students give rapt attention to theories of boom and bust in il senior economics class.

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plates calculus. Ncxt on the riiutliviiiuticul ugviiclu wus trigonoinvtry, which cle-ult mainly with the c-hamlctc-i'istics of ti'iuiiql4-s, lla-re-. thc old Erasmus clicc-11 i'Sinc cosine, cosine sine, took on meaning and bccuiiit- il useful tool in thc solution of problems. Graph paper becuim- u fiuniliur sight us K'X'l'I'Y studs-nt grew adept in rcprcsvnting inaltllcinuticul tc-rms pictoriully. Thosv who wort' cspc-cially tulcntvcl, cspvcially lnaivc-. or vspvciully foolliurcly wt-nt on to uclvairicctl math. Spine-chilling equations we-rv clisscctt-tl uncl stuclivtl in clc-tuil in utlvuncecl algebra. Solicl geoint-try vxtmiclc-tl pri-vious studios of shapes to u three cli- mensional Ht-lcl. Cfulculus. tlu- lc-gvmlurx' horns-cl clvvil of riiutlivriiutics. rc-- walotl itsvlt as an intriguing combination of LlllLC'l7I'2l, graph work. uncl geometry. One important acc-omplislimvnt of tht- Xluth Dt-purtnicnt wus that mzuiy' stuclvnts lcurnccl to rvgurcl tht- worlcl of uunibt-rs us un ilitt-llc-ctiull cliaillcnqv rzitheir than us un urmi to he- ft-urn-cl uncl uvoiclvcl. Nlr, Louis Nlosl-4owitz's cool. vzilni, .intl t-ollvt-tl-rl mirth tvum cluss cuiificlviitly contrni- N .f 1 -fr 4- 4? J' ji'-:LE-L! Dr. Ellis Iohnson Chairman In his own inimitable' way, Nlr. lost-ph Fishc-r 1-xplzxins il problem in solicl gc-func-try to his clisc-iplcs. p Y 4' 6

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sl' 3'2 Nhss Sarah Garrett Fhazrman 1 tl p mor unx of the put held 1 eert un l'lbLlfllfl0ll In our hlstorx ellsses ue were lhle to stuelx the CIUSLS :nel effeets of p lst events so th lt we eoulel tpplx xshrt we h mel le lrneel to plese nt elm problems We first eoxere el the xe :rs from the el xxx n of l11St0lX to mul mnetee nth eenturx Nlodern xxorlel lustorx Wlfll :ts emph tsls on euxre nt exents then brought us up to dlte mel mzele us more llert IS eltlzens Next we eoneentrlted on the nltlonll seene from the time of the fxrst lXpl0I'ltl0I1S m the New World through the Curl ll u A stlfl eoulse ID eeonomles folloxseel mzklng us lVld devotees of the Hnanclal sectlon of the newspaper Unlted States mternal and forelgn pollcy smce the ClVll W'1r was our mterest IH Hlstorv 8, a course whlch umfied our prevlous studles and prepared us for the next great hurdle the Regents Examlnatlon An added feature was the mstltutlon IH our semor year of The Hlstory Club whose members tutored Erasmxans ln Amerlcan hlstorv and current events Hlstorv courses were alwavs excltlng and stlmulatlng thanks to excellent lnstructlon on the part of the department staff and llvelv student partlclpatlon Ja- L The englgmg Xir john Campml famxlmrxzcs hrs elwss ruth past lLL0l'I1pllSl'llDCI'lf9 md errors of Tl1ll'lklI'lLl Hxstory student jieoh Kurze-r momentarllv dlvcrtmg hrs attentmn from the problems of the world stares qume-ullx at our ARCH pho togmphe r NV J f . W ' 7, , t Lui .1 V t ,. 1 A Fo' all of us lex 1 t 1 V ' ey ' a '- z' I ' e ' . A 'f Y' -louse -- vm r a 1 5- 1' s L 1.x-1 , r. w is 1 L. l ., . i 1, .L ,, 1 .i , , is , , 1 - V- 1 1 'vel H- ' , 1 V -I' ' - ' r me -r Ir. A 1 ' 4 - 1' ' ls e Q - - r 1-s - 1 nf ala z ' 5 '1 a.' 'M' ' ' 'X 2 W I U - ' li L L I 1 1 x I ' l' ' I ' A 1 Vx ' Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 a I5 A' 1 A . . . . Em, ' few: ' 'Nui 4 . . . . , I . . lg I X f ' fl ff J sr Rl U1 f I, In X 4 l