Great Neck South High School - Vista Yearbook (Great Neck, NY)

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Mr. William Creighton l Mit» Karin Alff Mr. Gilbert Delaura The Mathematics Department, headed by Miss Perry, has a curriculum geared to a widely varied student body. Depending on their math backgrounds, tenth grade students take Elementary Algebra, Geometry or Eleventh Year Mathematics. Those in Eleventh Year Math are members of the special class, an accelerated program. In the junior year. Eleventh Year Math and Intermediate Algebra are offered. Seniors take Twelfth Year Math which meets five periods a week. They may also take Selected Topics in Advanced Math, better known as STAM. The participants in the Special Math class take Calculus, a college course. This year, sixty math students took the standardized test given by the Math Association of America. The test consists of 40 problems to be done in 80 minutes, with a high score of 150. People who get an 80 or better are put on the honor roll; from our school four students were placed on the honor roll. They were: Don Oastreicher, with a 108.75; Ann Berger, with a 90.5; Henry Siegel, with an 86; and Jimmy Fornari with an 81.75. The country is divided into 10 geographic districts. Each school's rank is determined in relation to the other schools in the district. Generally we have placed in the top 10% of our district, which is the highest-scoring league in the nation. Miss Alff was added to the department this year. Mri. Ann Douaherly Miss Mary Motion MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

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Mis Louise Crandall Head Mr. Edward Calabrese Miss Anita lilenfeld Miss Janet Meoly Mrs. Jacqueline Menage Mrs. Maria Omeltchenko Miss Nancy RtfVado Mr. Vladimir Rus LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT The Language Department has a diversified curriculum. It offers German, French, Spanish, Rus- sian and Latin. In all these courses, except Latin, emphasis is placed upon an ability to hear the language, a degree of fluency, and the develop- ment of reading techniques. In Latin there is no oral work other than translation because Latin is not spoken. First and second year students develop a basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Third and fourth-year language students concentrate on litera- ture and a refinement of their oral abilities. Some of the books read are Letters from My Mill, Emile the Detective, Dream of an August Night, and Caesar. In order to keep up with our burgeoning school population, the faculty of the French section was enlarged by the addition of Miss Mealy. M

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Mr. Murray Singer Head Mr. Robert Abrams Mr. Robert Engel Mr. Patrick Gorman SCIENCE DEPARTMENT In the past few years, our Science Department has made various curriculum changes in order to accommodate the rigorous demands of the space age. Students are offered three regular courses, biology, chemistry, and physics. In addition, there is an advanced place- ment program in which promising science students are selected from seventh grade science classes. While these special science students take the same courses as other students, they take them one year earlier. Thus, they take high school sciences a year before the rest of their grade. This year, seniors in the A.P. program were offered a choice between two college science courses. Biology and Chem- istry. Three new teachers, Mr. Gorman, Mr. Engel, and Mr. Zannos, joined the staff as a result of growing student interest in the sciences. 16 Mrs. Mary Vielbig Mr. John Zannos