Wyoming Seminary Prep School - Yearbook (Kingston, PA)

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Seienee Department First row: Mr. Buntz, Miss Coyle, Mr. Flaherty. Second row: Mr. Hughes, Mr. Lord. The Science Department, centralized in Nesbitt Hall, has a two-told aim: to add each day to the student's working capital and to prepare him for more ad- vanced work in college. ln addition to basic text- book assignments, two periods a week are allotted to laboratory work. The science courses oftered at Wyoming Seminary are general science, biology, physics, and chemistry. Mr. Hughes, head of the department, instructs a class in chemistry in addition to his administrative duties. Thanks to Mr. Lord's human warmth, amiabil- ity, and sincerity, physics classes are enjoyable as well as constructive. Prof. Lord also substitutes for Dr. Decker in Chapel and annually portrays Santa Claus at Christmas Blue and White. Prof. Flaherty is as much at home arguing violently on the benefits ot chamber music, politics, and the advanced theo- ries of Dr. Velecovsky as he is teaching chemistry and physics. The only distaft member of the science faculty, Miss Coyle, conducts classes in biology and chemistry. Prof. Pugh supplements his schedule of social stud- ies with a course in general science. Surrounded by pet hamsters, abundant vegetation and pickled craytish, Mr. Buntz offers a challenging and compre- hensive biology course. Realizing the need tor scientific education in the Sputnik age, the Science Department is attempting to instill in the Seminary students an appreciation for science and a desire to continue similar study.

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Foreign Language Departrnent The aim of the Language Department is to aid the student in the mastery of spoken and written langu- age. Records, dictation, and conversational exercises are utilized in The modern language courses to in- crease the student's oral proficiency. By studying the tongue itself, the student also becomes acquainted with the customs, history, and literature of the people and the country involved. At The head of This department is Prof. Abbot, who conducts classes in all four years of French study. Who among the French scholars will ever forget Monsieur AbboT's aeolian cry of Silence! or his witty, Gallic proverbs? A student of six languages, Mr. Miller teaches French and Spanish. Prof. Miller's interests extend from European travel to Voltaire, and he has become renowned as the most bohemian of the faculty family. Mr. Quick also teaches French and acts as adviser to the Christian Association. One of the students' favorites, Senora Wainstein holds classes in first through third year Spanish. Mr. Jacob- son, Seminary's sole German professor, is thorough- ly steeped in Teutonic culture by ancestry, marriage, and study. At the classical end of the language department, one finds Mr. Roberts, who teaches first year Latin, Caesar, and Cicero. Mr. Busse conducts first year Latin, Caesar, and Vergil classes, and althong Miss Reichenbacher is primarily an English teacher, she instructs freshman Latin scholars. The value of foreign language study cannot be over- emphasized. Whether the course is classical or mod- ern, the curriculum is arranged to provide a thorough basic knowledge of the language and to develop, subsequently, a keener historical and in- ternational understanding. First row: Mr. Abbot, Miss Reichenbacher, Mrs. Wainstein, Mr. Busse. Second row: Mr. Roberts, Mr. Miller, Mr. Jacobson, Mr. Quick.

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Social Studies Department The social studies courses at Wyoming Seminary are organized to provide a background in, and an understanding of, the heritage of the past and its relationship to the present, to explain the develop- ment and importance of democratic institution, to emphasize the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in a free government, to study man and his relationship to his fellow man and to the in- stitutions he has created, and to study the import- ance of cultural development rooted in ethical principles. In carrying out his above words, Mr. Leroy E. Bug- bee, head of the department, offers exceptionally factual United States history, economics, and Amer- ican government courses. Within only one year at Seminary, Prof. Betterly has not only enlightened his students in United States history classes, but has also led them on the most rewarding philosophical, ethical, and psychological tangents. Miss Oswald devotes her time to playing the organ in Chapel and to teaching ancient and modern European history, psychology, and sociology. Mr. Nageli instructs freshmen in Pennsylvania history and civics, besides advising the Civil Court. An avid student of the history, language, and customs of Russia, ham radio operating, and pranks, Mr. Pugh also teaches Penn- sylvania history and civics. By incorporating the study of history with current events, the members of the Social Studies Depart- ment create within the students a greater under- standing and tolerance for man and the world in which he finds himself. First row: Mr. Bugbee, Miss Oswald, Mr. Betterly. Second row: Mr. Nageli, Mr. Pugh.