Case High School - Chief Yearbook (Swansea, MA)

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MAURITA SIEDENTOPF Biology Sciences The science department is a twilight zone between the beclouded logics and non-logics of math and English. Here someone is be¬ ginning. Someone is learning something which will someday bear some knowledge to be added to the bulk of knowledge in now. It is no mistake that the objective of every science student is immortality. Even eternity is not enough time to unravel all the puzzles. But still students make beginnings and try with eager egos to stuff the laughing universe into tiny spheres of knowledge. ' Vv PIERRE LUSSIER Chemistry RONALD REYNOLDS General Science 18 i JOSEPH LA FAZIA Science, Health

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Mathematics JAMES CONROY Mathematics, Head Mathematics Department DONALD TRIPP Industrial Arts EDWARD WRIGHT Automotive, Mechanical Drawing LEO BERNIER Mathematics, Sophomore Class Ad¬ viser Math is the realm of abstracts very real to minds which see beyond daily book exercises to a vast field of exploration. Of all the sciences, math is the language of all the physical unexplainables, math is the explanation; of all the universe that extends from infinite . smallness to infinite greatness, math is the map. Arithmetic, geometry, lots of little algebras, trig¬ onometry and matrix—many long names make many facets to the magical world of pi, pie, and Pythagoras. While encouraging the students who love math to continue studying it, Case’s math department has imbued all the students with a respect for the promise of mathe¬ matics and the capabilities of mathematicians in the world. ALEXANDER JOHNSON General Mathematics JOHN CROKE Mathematics Auto Shop The floor’s been mopped; the place is clean. But there’s one thing the auto shop will always have. That’s the smell of engines—en¬ gines that today make our world run—dirty, greasy engines with worn valves and faulty carburetors, bum transmissions and slipping clutches, blown rods and cracked pistons. But they’re here for a pur¬ pose. They are to be fixed. They are to be pulled apart and put to¬ gether and made useful again. They’re going to run. Someone will be taught, some¬ one must be taught, to do it. That is what automotive shop is all about —learning to mend by mending. You’re on your own, up here boys. No special privileges—you’re on your own.’’ Mr. Wright knows what he says. That’s just what’s in store for them.

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Foreign Languages CLARA STEWART Art ETTA HANLEY Art Art Room The Art Room is a threshold into another world—a world of sun¬ light and leaves, men and seashores —a world of beauty that has been transformed from a visual concep¬ tion into a painting, a charcoal sketch, a mosaic. In the Art Room, we students, like the great masters, try to cap¬ ture on canvas the ethereal beauty of shimmering pools, the cragginess of mountains. Succeed or fail, we have recognized the beauty in the illusion of delicacy or enormity in nature. PAUL FLANIGAN Latin ESTELLE PELLETIER French JULIA PAPANDREA French, Head of Language Department. Student Council Adviser Perhaps realizing that the meeting of the minds is accomplished first by the meeting of tongues, our students have taken the fullest advantage of the language program at Case. Studying the Latin classics reincar¬ nates for us the splendor of Rome and the great men of all the Roman world of 2000 years ago. Students of French have taken a leap over the language barrier which often exists between Americans dnd not only the masters of literature but also the common people of a foreign land. It is our goal to understand many men who speak in many tongues—different from our own but no longer foreign to us.