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

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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.

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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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Thereis no better investment for the future DRIVER EDUCATION ed (VROLET C The drivers’ education course taught by Mr. Donald Vaughan has become an indispensable part of an upper- classman’s education. He trains students in the basic skills of the handling of an automobile and prepares them for a job they will be doing for the rest of their lives. 30 Mr. Joseph Gallant, a basketball enthusiast, demon- strates to his students the correct way of gripping a basketball for the greatest accuracy in passing and shooting. He enjoys working with the boys to help them develop basic fundamentals necessary to a good sports program. In accordance with the physical fitness program of our country, Classical administers a series of physical fitness tests to gym students. Mr. Philip Hart is record- ing a student’s percentile rank as compared with other students in the nation.