Wellesley High School - Wellesleyan Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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PAUL LYDON, Dept. Chairman S C 1 E N C E BRIAN AHERN RICHARD HAYES MARILYN MONTALBANO PAUL COULOMBE EDWARD HERLIN MARY CROSSON JOHN HOWARD Few students forget physics with Mr. Palumbo. This year the Science Department offered a one semester course in Astronomy so that non-physics majors had the opportunity to experience Mr. Palumbo’s teaching techniques. Also newly offered was Bio. 32, a second year course for those who did exceptionally well in Bio. 23. Bio. 32 was taught by Mr. David Webster, the department’s latest addition. The new pro¬ grams, as well as the traditional ones, were developed to interest more students in a comprehensive science education, which includes exposure to biology, chemistry, and physics. Despite these innovations, however, enrollment in science courses showed a slight downward change for the first time in many years (partially because of a decrease in school enrollment). According to Mr. Paul Lydon, Department Head, ' The basic purpose of the science program at the secondary level is to make the student scientifi¬ cally literate.” Certain courses were especially successful in achieving this objective. Although students in A.P. Bio. had to cope with such minor inconveniences as prematurely dead chameleons, field trips and extended research programs created an realistic laboratory atmosphere. Likewise, students in A. P. Chem. were forced to develop precise and accurate techniques for lab experiments. DAVID WEBSTER LAURA WICK EDWARD YAROSH Mr. Lydon demonstrated a physics principle. O.K. kids, know the derivations of these formulas by tomorrow.” (Mr. Palumbo) 19

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admiring Mr. Palmaccio’s colored chalk, listening to the stomping of Mr. Mr. Barr was happy thinking about his sabbatical. (Billy Karas, Mr. Barr) Andrew’s foot, or becoming terrified of Miss Milot on the first day of school, students who took math were rarely bored by one of the most capable department faculties of Wellesley High (by the math itself maybe, but not by the teachers!). This year computer programming wa made an integral” part of Math 12 and 42B in order to interest students who would not otherwise have had contact with the computers. These student- were also offered free use of a third terminal by Babson College. A new course this year, Technical Math,” was designed to create an awareness of the necessity of Algebra. Offered to fifteen students in the Industrial Arts Department, Technical Math taught those enrolled in it the applications of math¬ ematics to practical jobs. They developed math expertise as students worked on personal projects. Mr. Andrew, Department Head, also cited an increased enrollment in the math electives, Probability and Statistics and Matrix Algebra. Mr. Andrew pointed out the solution to the problem as Mark Gherardi solved it. JAMES RANDALL BARR HORSMAN DONALD LaBORNEJR. ALICE MILOT MAXWELL MONTGOMERY ROSS HUNTER RICHARD PALMACCIO KATHLEEN SCOTT JAMES SULLIVAN RONALD GERHARD TIBERIO WICHURA 18

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Unlike that of other departments, the Foreign Language curriculum was not changed at all this year, and Miss Phoebe Porter, a Spanish instructor, was the solitary newcomer. The faculty, however, made use of the language lab, field trips to Harvard Square, and in depth literary studies ' to reach the standards of excellence desired by those departments seeking change. Mr. Raymond Caefer, Department Head, outlined the general goal of the foreign language department. They were to teach as much foreign language as a student wants or needs, even to the point of bilingualism; to acquaint students with other cultures and thus give perspective to their own; to fo ter tolerance through exposure to foreign lan¬ guages ( our way” is not the only way); and to further the cause of international under¬ standing through the medium of communication.” The first of the above objectives was most necessary to students. Not only did they wish to master a second language, but a thirty-five percent increase in Latin enrollment proved that a better understanding of etymology was in demand. RAYMOND CAEFER, Dept. Chairman ELAINE ADLER JULIETTE AVOTS L A N G U A MICHAEL CAVE PAUL ESPOSITO MIRIAM GRODBERG PETER HAGGERTY KAREN MORRIS EDITH LYNN LOWY MOORE DOROTHY LUCY MULRY NEEDLEMAN Mrs. lowy listened to her own LaTuna” announcement. PHOEBE COSMO PORTER UBALDINO 20