Abington High School - Oracle Yearbook (Abington, PA)

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Foreign Language Foreign Language is an all-elective area with course offerings in five areas: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. White the first three levels are basically the same, level IV allows the student to select either IV or IV Honors. The final year, level V, completes language study at the high school level with level V Honors designated as an Advanced Placement course. The Foreign Language department faculty sponsors many active clubs including: Affiliation Club, Spanish Club, Itallian Club, Latin Club, and French Club. The highlight of the departmental activities is the annual Mardi Gras celebration. Over six hundred language students don costumes, dance, and eat ethnic foods. Students are also encouraged to take part in the many local and national language contests. As in past years, Ab-ington is always excellently represented. Donald Alberl 2:35! 28

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Mathematics The responsibilities of the mathematics department are the development and implementation of curriculums in both mathematics and computer science. The department's staff consists of fourteen members, all highly trained and experienced teaching professionals. The staff is currently considering some textbook adoptions and the resequencing of the M-Mathematics track. These changes are in connection with the third year mathematics requirement for graduation to be instituted by Abington School District in the 1985-1986 school year. The most recent changes have occured in the upgrading of the computer science curriculum. We currently offer courses in BASIC, FORTRAN, and Advanced Placement Computer Science, which uses Pascal as the vehicle of communication. We are proud to be one of the few schools to offer electives in these three high level languages. The goal of our department is to provide a continuous mathematical sequence and meaningful classroom experience for students of every ability level. We trust that those students who are graduating from Abington Senior High School will be able to draw upon the problem solving skills that they have learned in order to enhance themselves in their chosen vocation and to improve the quality of life for all. Everyone take a few deep breathes. I've marked the tests . . . H. Russell Pittman Acting Chairman n K I Brian Reiff w John M. Mirsch 30