Grosse Pointe University School - Pericon Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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MATHE ATICS DEP RTMENT MARGARET K. HARVEY Chairman HAZEL C. BRAMLEY GRAHAM S. CRAGG B A M Ed,-Hood College B.A., M.A.-Elmira College B.S., M.S.-University of Michigan Temple University Columbia University 1953 1947 1945 wufw' ,rar CYRIL H- SIMMONS MARY HELEN SIMMONS MARY T. DIEKOFF B-A--B0Wd01f1 College B.A., M.A.--Bryn Mawr College B.A.-Wellesley College 1956 1957 1959 With the increasing belief that a truly liberal education is necessary today, mathematics has ceased to be a course for engineering or mathematics majors only. Above and beyond the required courses. there has been an increase in the number of students studying mathematics as an elective. Especially interesting is the fact that a major part of this increase has been girls. This year the Mathematics De- partment has included a two-period per-week Solid Geometry Course for seniors in addition to their Trigonometry and Advanced Algebra, which now comprises the Senior Math Work. While it is necessary to adjust the high school program to in- clude new principles and techniques, a change of curriculum is appearing on the Lower School level to lay a better groundwork for the more advanced studies.

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E GLI H DEPARTME T DONALD A. ROBERTS JOHN GLYNN CONLEY W. V. GRIMES Chairman B.A., M.A.--Harvard University B.A., M.A.-University of Michigan B S M A Columbia University 1942 1943 1956 i 1 i . , -f Q fr ii t A 1. ,,,., W f I a V'i: X iii iri: ' s fi' KATHERINE WELCENBACH WILLIAM BELLOWS H. CLARE LOCKHART B E University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee B.A., M. Ed.-Amherst College B.A., M.A.--Acadia University 1947 Tufts College Columbia University 1951 119501 1955 Curriculum changes in English are seldom as dramatic', as those in scientific fields, we can provide for children of the space age nothing as novel as the new math or the new physicsw. The role of the instructor in English-teaching stu- dents to read, to write, and perhaps, to think-changes little from year to year. What is noteworthy, then, is not an eye-catching revamping of 'gmaterials or methods , but something far more impressive, a change in student attitude. In some strange and remarkable way, most students have discovered in their progress, through the upper school that intellectual exercise can be exciting, that learning Cat the risk of being corny,'J can be fun. For the part they have played in bring- ing about this small-scale intellectual renaissance, the Class of 1960 has earned the respect and admiration of the English Department at GPUS.