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

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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

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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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Ellis K'1tzm'1n Chairman Buddmg scientists it Erlsmus mxious to mold the future tried their hmds at rearranglng the world on in orderlv basis Is even thing made of mixed up elements? Is everx thing the helpless victim of forces hexond its control? Is all matter the servant of nature? Nlemhers of the Phvslcal Science Depart ment had a difficult task mediitmg the disputes imong young chemists physlclsts and earth scientists In our chemistry course the physical makeup of matter was broken down and analyzed Simple experiments such as flame tests enabled us to 1dent1fy the elements hx their hrilli mt colors ind complex chemlcil relctions Our investigations of thc structure of life forms led us to experiment with org imc matter Physics the science of mitter md energv familnrized us with the bdSlC prlnclples md forces that shape the p lttern of dulx life The properties of heat light sound electricitx magnetism and the atom were explored open mg entlrelv new re alms of thought to manv of us Wind sand and stars whirled hv m the earth science sxllabus We discov ered that the moon was not made of green cheese after all and that a shoot mg star was neither shooting nor a star The department offered an honors course in chemistrv to luniors especially gifted m the suhject and in phx sics to slmxlarlv endowed seniors A college chemistry course gn en in the eighth term permitted voung scientists to delve more deeply into the mysterious composition of hoth the earth 'md the universe. Physzcal Sczences Nlr Ellis K1tzm'm vqmshes in 1 puff of smoke A chemistry clfuss quiety ws 'nts 'ln explosion