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

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Mr. Clifford Ormsby, chairman Music Department Helps With TS’s Spring Production Theatre South’s selection of Oh! What a Lovely War, a satir- ical musical revue of World War I, as its Spring production meant cooperative work between that organization and the Music Department. Mr. Clifford Ormsby, chair- man, served as musical director for the play which had 25 musical numbers while Mr. Alan Dickerson conducted a student ensemble composed mainly of wind instruments. Early in March the department worked with the PTA to produce the annual Scholarship Fund Concert. The event attracted a standing room only crowd and raised more than $600 for gradu- ating seniors who needed finan- cial aid in order to attend college. Mr. Ellie Siegmesiter, composer- in-residcnce at Hofstra Univer- sity, and Mr. Jim Maxwell, trumpeter with the NBC Orches- tra, were special guest performers. Last Fall 450 Nassau County students, including 24 from South, participated in the North Nassau Zone Musical Festival held at GNS. Mr. Vachov Nel- hybel from Czechoslovakia was guest conductor. Mr. Alan Dickerson 21

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Mr. Bernard Borevsoff, chairman, directs Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Theatre South’s Fall 1966 offering. 20 Miss Clare Feldman Speech Department Offers New Course For Foreign Students For students who are native speakers of foreign lan- guages and have little or no command of English, the Speech Department added English as a Second Language to its conventional offerings in dramatics, radio workshop, theater arts and speech. Two special part-time teachers and selected students from the Speech in Public Life course gave small-group and tutorial instruction to these students. Participates, who were allowed to drop some regular courses in order to receive the instruction, often worked in the school system’s new mobile classroom. The program is an extension of the work done in speech therapy. Under Department Chairman Bernard Boressoff, the department instituted a sequence three years ago which participating seniors completed this year.

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Art Department Experiments With Team Teaching Approach Two members of the Art Department experimented with team teaching this year. Mr. Gordon Rice, chairman, and Mrs. Louise Himelfarb worked together in the Advanced Art class. Each made use of his special skills, abilities, and interests. Mr. Rice termed the experiment a success and indicated that the approach would be used again in the future. Mrs. Louise Himelfarb Mr. Gordon Rice, department chairman, provides Bill Millc and Fran Botticello with helpful critique. 22