Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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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

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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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Mr. Osgood looks on apprehensively as Mr. Loffredo, Mr. McCreight, Mr. Cullen, and Mr. Chakoumakos whip up a little experiment to make him disappear. For results see next page. Scifence, which plays an important part in each of our lives, concerns the world of plants, animals, our minds and bodies, and the world of physical and chemical forces. Today, science is being stressed to a far greater extent than ever before in our schools because it plays such a vital role in the struggle for world domination going on between the forces of freedom and communism. Our fine science department gives every student the opportunity to explore chemistry, physics, biology and earth science as well as the fields of health and general science. Mr. Charles Chakoumakos, head of the science department, is teaching chemistry and general science during his second year at Goshen. He received his BS from Bates College and his MA at the University of Maine. We will always remember his enthusiasm, his big smile, his investigations, ” to say nothing of his, Come on, you guys, get out your notebooks. Let's get to work. The imperturbable Mr. Carlton Osgood, our great basketball coach and FTA advisor, has captured the hearts of all freshman and sophomore students of earth science and biology. Mr. Osgood received his BS and MS at Colgate University and has done graduate work at Colby College. His earth science students enjoy the annual trip to Howe Caverns, supplemented by a visit to the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York, or the Catskill Game Farm. The biology students have a hey-day when they journey to the Museum of Natural History in New York City and take short field trips in the woods surrounding our school to study plant phylums. 18