Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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State and National Prize Math exams. Among students who received new dimensions to present courses, certificates of outstanding achievement teachers gathered with some were John Monaghan and 2500 other teachers in Boston David Geoffroy. at the National Council of Teachers The Advanced placement of Mathematics, which lasted Calculus class with 37 students, had three days. Discussions, observations, the largest enrollment since and preporations were made the class originated. for the future. Interest in math rose substantially; The Math Department was a total of 2400 students were involved proportionately satisfied in math courses. To add with this year’s input. 33

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Many small changes in the Math Department this year helped students take an active part in Math classes. Mrs. Toni-Marie Mancuso sponsored a project which resulted in a creative way of learning. Students measured and calculated dimensions of a cake. The Honors Math program under the supervision N U mM be rs reflect l nte rest of Sr. Marita Joseph sponsored TERETE res d 1 Math does have some tasty times. 2 Senior Mi- chelle Scyocurka, Pasqua Scibelli, and Trisha Woodbury show the many expressions of a cal- culus class. 3 Junior Paul Heath contemplates a complex Algebra problem. 4 Studious Bobby Brunton confirms his answer with the answer key. 5 A student uses his mental ability to solve a cal- culus problem 6 advances to the slide rule method 7 then decides to take the easy way out

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The Home Ec department incorporated new projects and courses into its program this year. Foods II, a new cooking course, was set up to follow the pre-requisite of Foods |. The new course was a more in-depth covering of cooking skills. Ninety to one-hundred senior boys e . learned to bake Christmas cookies, Do mM esti C Arts Ca ptivate; make pizza and just survive on their own, in Bachelor Living. Other cooking classes pre- Tyros master food, fabric wrtrectss, siopored bate tale 1 Demonstrating the fine art of pizza-throwing is Dave Prarie. 2 Under the directions of Sr. Made- line Tiberii, Terry Toomey and Gina Mancinone learn the correct way to roll out cookie dough. 3 Showing enjoyment in learning to sew, Maureen Perkins, Catherine Ryan and Laura Lyons examine fabric before stitching. 4 Prior to sewing the material together, Margaret Guay lays out the pat- tern. 5 Keeping the rolling pin well-floured is an important lesson Nancy Manferdini and Dawn Williams demonstrate. 6 Teamwork is an impor- tant part in cooking as shown by Pat O’Neil and Nick Capparelli. 7 Completing a required project for her sewing class, Jane Kirejczyk deftly trims the material. 8 Eileen Mulligan and Sara Rickarby dis- cuss tuture sewing projects.