Classical High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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The arts manifest Miss Virginia Yuro is the director of all vocal music at Classical High School. The various groups which she teaches are Madrigal, The Mixed Choir, Boys’ Chorus, Girls’ Chorus, and theory and Harmony. Miss Yuro, a grad- uate of Boston University S.F.A.A. and the Hart College of Music at the University of Hartford, enjoys ice skating, sewing and reading. Here Miss Yuro is teaching her Theory and Harmony class the struc- ture of music and how music is made. The members of the Theory and Harmony Class are Donald McMahn, Gary Benson, Curtis Brossmer, Mike Weiner, Gail Haggerty, Marc Soutra, Miss Yuro, and seated at the piano, Barbara Baines and Linda Cotti. Mr. Vincent O’Keeffe is the director of all instrumental music for both Classical Jun- ior and Senior High. The vari- ous groups which he instructs include the band, orchestra, Brass Choir, Dance Band and Woodwind Quintet. Mr. O’Keeffe is a graduate of Bos- ton College and Columbia Uni- versity. In his spare time he enjoys racing sports cars and working with his ham radio. Mr. O’Keeffe is shown directing the Brass Choir as they appeared on the “At Home With Kitty” show at Station WWLP. 28

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classes for students with inquivin g minds, What seems to be frightening Mr. Howard Lynch, our humorous science teacher? If you are a student in one of his exciting physics classes, the answer should be easy. It’s the Van de Graff Generator. This exciting piece of physics apparatus, which was originally de- signed as an Atom smasher, was invented at M.I.T. The mystery is how does this machine work? When a person puts both his hands on the top of the large metal sphere, the machine then is turned on by a switch on the control panel, the generator is then set in motion. The high voltage, created by the spinning of a rubber band belt, makes one’s hair fly about. The fresh water fish enclosed in the glass tank seem to be attracting the attentions of students Mark Rosen- field and Mark Kelberman. For a deeper understand- ing, biology teachers use not only charts and diagrams but also living specimens. Our new chemistry lab, designed by physics teacher, Mr. Stanley Mulak, was opened to students in January of this year. This beautiful laboratory has been a great aid to pupils of Mr. Francis Lamoreaux and Mrs. Beulah Towne. The plans for the modern facilities of the laboratory started some- time last year. The builders worked through the summer and fall in order to have it ready for use for at least half of the school year. The picture to the left shows Mr. Charles O’Brien busily attaching a door to one of the many new cabinets. ve}

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themselves at Classical. This summer, Classical stu- dents are being offered a rare chance to study the language and art of a foreign country. A group of fortunate students will fly to Rome, Italy with their art instructor, Mrs. Hel- ena Laramee, her husband, and their daughter. The group will enjoy a six week study of the History of Art and begin- ner’s Italian. Although morn- ings will be devoted to class- work, afternoons and evenings will be free for painting trips, hiking, tennis, swimming, shopping, or general sight- seeing, with weekends high- lighted by trips to Venice, Assisi and Perugia, Florence, Pompeii, Naples, and Capri. The Classical students will be part of a large group of American high school people studying abroad. They are also the first group from Massa- chusetts to join the ever-en- larging enrollment of the For- eign Language League which at present has fifteen Euro- pean campuses. Back row, Gail Pinkerton, Marsha Ware, Marilee Marchese, Sheila Ford, Gail Madden, Elaine Cavanaugh. Seated with Mrs. Laramee, Linda Littman, Elaine Ciak. 29 A visit to the art room will show the wealth of talent found in our school. Good ex- amples of this talent are the watercolor painted by Robert Achin and the design for the Christmas concert program and posters in James Sadler’s hand. The design was drawn by James Sadler and silk- screened by him and Walter Sagon. The watercolor is a sketch of the new Christopher Columbus statue in the South End of Springfield.