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

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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

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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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BOYS’ The boys' physical education department, headed by Mr. Erwin Clarke, supervises a curriculum divided into three seasons: fall, winter, and spring. In the fall, the boys play soccer and touch foot- ball in class and intramurals. During the winter, there are wrestling, apparatus, volleyball and basketball in class. The intramurals are bowling, basketball and an apparatus club. In the spring, class activities are running, lacross, and softball. Intramurals include soft- ball, senior life saving, and lacrosse. Recently the boys separated into teams to bandy the hard rubber ball for the first intraclass lacrosse games at South. This year Mr. Clarke emphasized physical fitness. Only 50V» of today's boys could pass President Kennedy's fitness test, estaimated Mr. Clarke. Gym periods were devoted in part to exercises to remedy this situation. PHYSICAL EDUCATION GIRLS’ Headed by Miss Staat, the Girls' Physical Education Deportment designs its activities in order to give girls maximum enjoyment and exercise. Sophomores take gym three days a week while juniors and seniors take it twice. In the fall seniors play tennis. The juniors and sophomores play lacrosse. The seniors participate in volleyball, basketball, tumbling and golf in the winter. One of the most anticipated activities is trampoline. The girls go outside once again in spring. The seniors demonstrate their skill at archery; sophomores and junior play softball. The students interested in dance were offered modern dance classes one day a week under the supervision of Miss Staat. Miss Patricia Kuhl 17