Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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 GALLIA EST OMNIS DIVISA ... Mrs. Marion Williamson assumes typical pose at head of her Latin classes. Mrs. Williamson, who teaches both junior and senior high school Latin, heads our classical language department. She graduated from Colby College in Maine and later received her masters degree from New York University. She is noted for the assignment of Latin projects, her selection of the top three Latin scholars for the Baird Memorial test in New York, and her outstanding guidance of the Latin Club. Students of her courses in Latin will long remember her insistence on meticulous scholarship and her willingness to help any interested students after hours. That enrollment in Latin courses at GCS reverses the national trend and is on the increase is proof of her popularity and effectiveness. 16

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MarwEmtce FOR-THE MILLIONS The math department has, in its customary way, gone through another year of doing an excellent job explaining the abstract to the concrete. We have its well-qualified members to thank for this. Besides teaching intermediate algebra and math 12, Mr. Evan Littlefield, the head of the math department, is still experimenting, this year with a math 8 class and a new statistics course. We'll remember his vain attempts to close the door of his room in the new wing, his complaints that the seniors aren’t spending enough time on math, and his continual praise of the new math 8 textbook. Mr. Littlefield is a Middlebury man with a masters degree from Harvard. The Pat Boone of GCS, Mr. Donald Lyons, who earned his BS from New Paltz and his MA from Union, teaches math 10, math 11, elementary algebra and trigonometry-solid geometry. We’ll remember how he answered ”Yeeesss to any request for explanation of a difficult problem. Mr. John Krupka, who graduated from Bucknell University, is the GCS math teacher with the cynical smile and clip-on bow ties. He teaches math 10, math 9, general math 9 and math 7. Mrs. Claire Coon, our devoted woman math teacher with the ponderous briefcase, is a graduate of Syracuse University. She teaches math 8, intermediate algebra, math 9, business math, and general math 10. Mr. Roy Baldwin, who is still a baseball coach extraordinary at GCS, teaches two math 8 classes and one seventh grade math while the other junior high math teacher, Mrs. Carol Diamond, like Mrs. Coon, is often seen trying to transport her unwieldy briefcase down the hall to any one of her two eighth grade classes and three seventh grade math classes. Both Mr. Baldwin and Mrs. Diamond are graduates of New Paltz and Mr. Baldwin has a masters degree from Columbia. 15

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FLUENCY IN LANGUAGES l£ VUZ1L This year the language departments have been experimenting with a new method of teaching Latin, French and Spanish. Previously, emphasis was placed on learning to read and write other languages well. With the jet age bringing foreign countries closer than ever before, however, skill in speaking and understanding spoken foreign languages is more important than ever. Therefore, the new method of teaching makes use of tape recordings, records, and much oral work. The beginning students memorize short dialogues which they first hear spoken by the recordings or their teachers and then they repeat them. In each case, the students are mimicking the proper accent and pronunciation, while trying to speak at the same rate as the expert. The purpose of this new program is to build the student's confidence in speaking the language as well as his ability to speak it rapidly and correctly - as a native does. Mr. Leon Cohen, the wild Frenchman, is the head of Goshen's modem language department. No one will ever forget his immortal sayings ( Come hell or high water ), his short quizzes, and his weeks of Regents reviews. Mr. Cohen has a soft spot in his heart for pretty girls, wives, dogs, and small children. He graduated from City College of New York and later received his masters there. He teaches French 7, French I, French II, and French V. Mr. Sean Morris, who taught at GCS two years ago, has returned from a year's study at Purdue University and a summer in Russia. He is teaching both French and Spanish. Mr. Morris graduated from Albany State Teacher’s College and received his masters at Indiana University. Students will remember him for his rapid-fire oral instruction in Spanish and French and his dashing Hart, Schaffner and Army Surplus slacks. A new addition to our language department this year is Mr. Albert Leonhard. University, studied at the University of Madrid in Spain, and received his masters at Middlebury College. This year he has employed a new system for teaching Spanish. Two days a week are devoted to grammar instruction and the rest of the week is used for tape work to increase the students' oral proficiency. Besides instructing with this new system, Mr. Leonhard has organized a very popular Spanish Club this year. He graduated from Tulane THREE WHO MAKE LIKE NATIVES ... Mr. Morris, Mr. Leonhard and Mr. Cohen pose before the language lab console. 17