Hempstead High School - Colonial Yearbook (Hempstead, NY)

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Left to right, top row: Celine Young. Second row: Sonia Dorwin. Gertrude Gunther. Helen Ignelzi. Third row: Willard Leusch, John Menza, Andrew Navarra. Fourth row: Lillian Schiff, Jean Stilger. Mabel Winter. LANGUAGES BONJOUR, Guten Tag, Ave, Buenos Dias. The shrinking of the world brought about by faster means of communication has caused foreign languages to become more important than ever before. In order to understand other countries one must also understand their language and customs. Our schools teach the more important for- eign languages as well as the culture, history and civilization of the people. Hempstead High School offers French, Latin, German and Spanish to college pre- paratory students who must have at least two years of a language to their credit before most colleges will consider them for admission. Students who wish to acquire greater fluency and ease in a particular language may study it for as many as four years in our high school. Shown above is a group of Miss Gun- ther's second year German students ex- amining a collection of delicate china from Meissen, Germany. Adios, Vale, Auf Wiedersehen, Au Revoir. 20

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Top row, left to right: Imogene Boyle. Kazmier Albinslci, Robert Foster. Eugene Gaydebouroff, Har- rison Hodges. Bottom row: Arthur Lillicrapp, Esther McQueen. Timothy Pierce, Miriam Randall, Elnore Kantzler. MUSIC AND DRAMATICS MR. PIERCE is here offering helpful advice to the High School's symphonic orchestra. The music students greatly appreciate these suggestions, since they realize that they will be a contributing factor in making the next concert their greatest success. The dramatic societies in the High School look not only for acting ability, but also for back-stage assist- ants. The men behind the scenes are equally as impor- tant in a stage production as the actors. These unseen workers sometimes go on from High School to become directors, producers or stage hands. With them they carry a generous knowledge of show business gained through participation in high school dramatics.

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MATHEMATICS FEW of us escape the trials and tribula- tions of elementary algebra. Many things will slip from the minds of the pupils pic- tured here but they will long remember Mr. Smith's words transpose that term and find the lowest common denominator. This classroom scene is representative of the many math classes in our school. Math has become an extremely impor- tant subject in our atomic, jet-propelled age. Most students preparing for college find it helpful to take all the courses offered and the non-college students find many courses which will be useful in business and industry. For those who want, to go beyond the classroom in the study of math, the depart- ment offers the Tupiar Club where many interesting discussions are held. At a recent meeting of the club Mr. Smith gave an interesting and informative talk on the his- tory of mathematics. Lett to right. Top row: Robert Hayes. Robert Ayres, Donald Francis. Sec- ond row: Carl Holtz, Robert Keenan, Gerald Lacombe. Third row: Dr. Edna Layton, Warren McGregor, Albert Smith. Fourth row: Robert Watson.