Hicksville High School - Comet Yearbook (Hicksville, NY)

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practical things for the present . . . Despite her dreams of fame and glory, every woman must' eventually spend a good deal of her life in the glamorous vocation of homemaking. In the three-year Home Economics sequence a girl learns how to make life more meaningful and enjoyable and gains insight into matters ranging from child care to clothing. The sophomore curriculum consists of two main areas. Personal and Family Management teaches the student to efficiently organize her own and her family’s lives in such matters as chores, entertainment, and sibling rivalry. Nu- trition and Meal Management helps prepare a girl for her future occupation as a cook. She learns to prepare well- balanced meals, for they are always more appreciated than a T.V. dinner, no matter what Madison Avenue may claim. She also studies the intercultural significance of food, the efficient use of kitchen facilities and various food products. The junior and senior courses stress personal and family relations, textiles and clothing. The former gives an understanding of the nature and formation of a family, and the inter-relationships of the individuals in it. Since family involvement is one of the strongest influences on a child, it is important for the student to develop good com- mon sense to help keep the house from becoming a battle- field. Taste, selection and construction of clothing, and the dynamics of fashion are covered in the study of textiles and clothing, which incidentally helps a girl learn to tell a real bargain from an ordinary sale. Often a student takes a Home Economics course as a filler course for a semester. Even so, she benefits, because any knowledge she has gained is practical. She may learn child development and care, money management, home decoration, cooking, and sewing, all of which will help her in her future role as homemaker. PREPARING A DESERT . . . can be quite catastrophic without the guid- ance Mrs. Caiola. Miss Kosko Chemistry Natioial Honor Society Mrs. Kozma Spanish Spanish Club Miss Kumpikas French Mr. Kuntz Business Mr. Kurilla World History NOT PICTURED Mr. Holmes Art Mr. Ignatoff Industrial Arts Miss Jenkin Department Head Business 27

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Mr. Hogan Physical Education Varsity Club Mr. Jones American History Mr. Horne Problems Photography Club Mrs. Karish Mathematics Miss Iorio Italian French Italian Club Mrs. Kavner English Mr. Irwin Matmematics Mr. Knerr Business Mrs. Jonason Art Mrs. Komson World History and showed us wonders of the past . . . If it weren’t for gym, history would undoubtedly win the Most Unpopular Subject award. Most students con- sider history an elaborate memory training program de- signed to clutter their minds with unrelated names and dates that haunt them at odd hours of the night. Actually the history department aims at giving students an under- standing of the past and, therefore, the power of influenc- ing the future . It is for this end that history is a required subject at Hicksville, and not to provide a subtle torture for the entire student body. Sophomores study World History, a course which only covers European history. Juniors get an overview of American history and a closer view of American govern- ment. Seniors take World Problems, a current events course which also provides them with an excellent op- portunity to memorize the Constitution. Some seniors also partake of the organized anarchy of the Advanced Placement American History course. One development of the history department has been the Team Teaching program. Under this system, classes are divided into two sections, each group alternating be- tween attending a lecture and taking notes one day, and discussing or being tested on the material the next day. Although team teaching gives the student a chance for discussion he might not otherwise get, it does cause con- siderable panic and confusion when he forgets where he is supposed to be that day. This emphasis on discussion has also led to a revival of the Round Table Club in which students may broad- cast their opinions on various historical topics that are only briefly mentioned in class. Influenced by modern educational theory, the history department is working to give students an understanding of history rather than an encyclopedia of unimportant facts. RELATING A DATE ... to a situation often proved to be the task of Mr. McEnaney and the other World History teachers.

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and a language for the future; In the third grade you learn that the three necessi- ies for life were food, clothing, and shelter. But the older you got, the more you realized that there is a fourth—arithmetic. Arithmetic is essential for ba- lancing checkbooks and paying bills and measuring wallpaper. Arithmetic as a specific course is not taught here. One may study varieties of algebra, geometry, or trigonometry, or even the calculus and modern math, but not arithmetic. The reasoning behind that is that everyone is supposed to know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide by the time he is fifteen. If you are one proficient in at least three of these, you can gain an excellent mathmatical background at HHS that is guaranteed to get you through SAT tests and, with luck, early college math. Hicksville’s math department is large and its cur- ricula extensive; it has to be in order to accomodate the ever-increasing number of students who decide that three years of math are not enough. Consequent- ly you can go to an Advanced Algebra Class every period of the day if you want, or spend each period with a different kind of math. If you want even more numbers, there exists a math club which does its share in keeping youths off the streets on Tuesday afternoons. A strong mathmatical background is becoming more and more important in this computer age. Hicksville providently foresaw this, and prepared for it. The only unfortunates are those who can’t add, now lost in the IBM cards. FROM DERIVATIONS TO INTEGRALS ... Mr. G. was able to bring some sembeleoce of order out of the chaos known as calculus. Mrs. Luftig English Mr. Lupis Biology Physics Mr. Marrocco Spanish Mr. Masi Biology Booster Club Phy-Chem-Bi Miss Mayer Guidance Mr. McCarty English Miss McCormack Mathematics Future Teachers of America Mr. McEnaney World History Debate Club Mrs. McGovern Nurse-Teacher Miss McGuiness Library 28