High School of Commerce - Caduceus Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Social Studies Teach Students About World Problems Shown at the right are the members of the So- cial Studies faculty. They are, Front Row, left to right: Mr. Al- phonse Alminas, Mr. Merwin Tober, Mr. Bru- no Rumpal. Rear: Mr. Harold Taylor, Mr. Henry Wiatrowski, Mr. John Bennett, and Mr. Carl Stone. The High School of Commerce has the most complete course in Social Studies in the city of Springfield on the high school level. It offers Geog- raphy and Modern History in the freshman year, American History in the junior year, and Modern Prob- lems in the senior year. Modern Problems I combines a half year of civics with one-half year of home problems, while Modern Problems II adds Economics for the same period of time. Civics points up the origin of government — federal, state, and city — and tells what its functions are. The aim of the Social Studies Department is to reveal to students the historical and cultural background of their country. Above is a class in Home Problems study- ing the care of the sick. They are left to right: Frosine Axiotis, Arline Dumas, Shir- ley Hyland, and Roberta Sachs. Eleanor Serafino is the patient. Miss Regina Hender- son, instructor, looks on. Left: A Modern History class planning a panel discussion. Students are, standing, left to right: Phyl- lis Peterson, Cornelius Sullivan, and Helen Mazzarino. Seated: Terry Pula, Diane Proulx, and Avis Cuffee.

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English Department Stresses Practical Usage A college-prep class in action. Seated left to right are, First row: Marjorie Coombs, Carole Hamell, Carol Sergel. Second Row: Edward Anderson, Carl Ersing, Roger Hannigan, Flo- rine LeDuc. Third Row: Joyce Buffington, San- dra Grand, Don Hey- liger, Allan Peck. Fourth Row: Valerie Butler, Barbara Grandfield, Dor- othy Hutcheons. Fifth Row: Tom Themistos, Mary Tiraterra, Nancy Jernstrom. Sixth Row: Virginia Wood, Clifford Plourde, Richard Pond. Standing: Judith Bour- geois, Diane Ledger, George Pehlvanian. The English Department at the High School of Com- merce has a big job before it in trying to prepare students for the future. Because the teachers know that the students will be using English all their lives and that it will have a direct influence on their success in business and the social world, they want to give them the best training possible. Commerce offers courses in many of the specialized branches of English as well as the fundamentals of the language. The College Preparatory course is very helpful to those students who go on to college. The speech class is available and useful to all Junior and Senior students. A special reading program is being developed in which Freshman students will be given scientific train- ing in the skills of understanding and using the English language to its highest advantages. Above left are three members of the speech class recording their voices on tape. They are, left to right: Elizabeth Fratini, Charles Flanigan, and Antonette Fioren- tino. Left: The English Depart- ment faculty includes, left to right, seated: Miss Mary McCarthy, Mr. Wayland Holley, Miss Mild- red Jenks, Miss Helen Rankin, Mr. Frederick Allen, Miss H. Elizabeth Phelps, and Miss Eliza- beth C. Connell. Standing: Mr. Raymond Ellison and Mr. Her- bert Michaels. Absent: Miss Madeline Maurer.

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Science Department Creates Science-age Above, nedy, Pauline Ken- Jeannette Savoy, and Susan Lemieux ex- hibit reptiles. Students At left are the teachers who make a wide range of scientific studies possible here at Commerce. They are Mr. MHenry Trespas, Miss Alberta McCleary, Mr. William Wilder, and Mr. Harold Jones. The Science Department of the High School of Commerce has two primary aims: to help create science-age citizens and to encourage more young people to choose science as a career. In this new age of rockets and wonderful med- ical discoveries, students who have a knowledge of chemistry, physiology, physics, and biology are needed all over the globe. One of the big events-in the Science Depart- ment this year was the Science Fair. This fair gives students the opportunity to express their thoughts on science with exhibits which they de- sign and make themselves. All in all, the science department offers stu- dents courses in all phases of science which will aid them in any career that they are interested in. and demonstration of transistors and their uses in electronics are, from left to right: Joan Beaulieu, Sandra Schenck, Richard Pond, Telephone Company representatives John L. Lavelle and Robert R. Robinson, and Physics instructor, Mr. Henry Trespas. discussion Taking part in a 14 Donald Heyliger and Carol Chemistry Hamell engaged in a titration to determine normality of acid, using burettes. They are Senior members of Mr. Wilder’s Chemistry class. experiment doing