Lincoln High School - Knight Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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But ll s cheaper by the keg Mathematlcs Department Invert the dlvlsorl No not the subtrahend' So you didn t mem orlze the fundamental ldentltxes eh' These pleas for educatlon obvlously lssue from that sectlon of the school set aslde for the mem bers of the mathematlcs department Ably headed by Mr Karl Kalman xt xs this d1v1s1on of the faculty mhlch sklllfully guldes students through the labyrmth of computa txonal dlfhcultxes As the lmportance of mathematlcs slulls mcreased ln our society so the math department mcreased xts scope Among IIS extracurrxcu lar act1v1t1es were the 30 60 90 club computer math and operation math clubs At the same tlme our stature ln the realm of mathematlcal ablhty grew As sophomores how our egos were boosted by casual mentxon of axloms and theorems As jumors algebra was our forte Fmally we reached the ultxmate m our semor year sol1d geometry and trlgonometry As we struggled through four years of mcreaslngly d1flicult calculatxons we somehow managed to keep our samty whlle humormg the teachers by learmng K Kalman Dept Head fl Dear Abby 'M gtlff' JA LQLQ Ftrs! Rou A unn H Blum L xNlCDCl' R McCarty NI Scott E Trltschler M Bergman Dolan Second Rnu 'I' Counsellor F Xerblt D Greenheld R NlcKam P Hare Thxrd Rau K Kalman D -Xshler B Jacobs H Aldas A Hamer R Rlchards 15

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anguage Department The United Nations bulldlng? An lnternatlonal conference? These may well have been the thoughts whxch matched the ralsed eyebrows of people new to L1ncoln Of course the answer was ob vlous the v1s1tor had stumbled lnto the language hall To sate h1s curxoslty he sought out the source of these sounds whlch turned out to be qulte naturally, the language offlce Here, surroundmg the desk of the charmmg department head Mrs Eleanora Sandstrom were Llncolns polyllngual lnstructors Perhaps they were planmng a petlt examen, a klelne aufgabe a pequeno examen or even a exammatlonus smallus It IS also qulte possxble that they were programmmg an mterestmg sesslon for one of the many language clubs mcludlng RUSSIHH In add1t1on to merely teachmg us another language the language teachers mcreased our awareness of other nations customs and COUHIIICS whlle we developed a thorough command of the language so let them eat Cake and an enormous des1re to travel E Sandstrom Dept Head Beware the :des of March F1rstRou M Lucas D Brody H Ballxet K Kozak L Cokhale Second Rou E Sandstrom B Kntschll S Erhch Dhfiqu lk 'LV Luv!-AL 14 Q . ! , . V ! . , . . ' . , . ' if ' li ll ' YI K I K ll V YY ll ' ' ,Y , . , . 3 , 5 Y n D , X f . Y 4 1 V , . ' I - , I ll ' yy X - - s 55 . 2. My 1 t gy. ' ':. ,.',. ,.,. ':. , . , . . 'l f f , fff

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SCICDCC Department A ver lon tnme a o some of us were mere Cl hth raders takm Y 8 8 8 8 3 a general sclence course and seemg our first experlments In nmth grade as we had no scxence the teachers had a welcome reprleve Somethm s gotta give Abracadabra you young jackanapes However we were back at work agam the next year studymg flora and fauna It was then that we dlscovered that trees have leaves and that msects look qulte mce on the end of a pm As Jumors we wandered through the halls muttermg valences under our breath and almost blew up the school Wllh our sweet smelllng experlments By the tlme we reached our last year we were old hands at sclence and lab As we wrestled nn physlcs wlth the qual1t1es of matter machmes and energv we were encouraged by our teachers wlth such cheerful remarks as Thrs IS nothmg Wall tlll you take sclence 1n college' H Kuner Dept Head if ' First Row: E. Adelman M. Gendhart A. Reller j. Hayburn J. Kelly H. Marcus E. Mullen R. Poliner. Second Row: H. Kuner S. Grossman L. Dietz M. Kahn W. Dodies S. Savitz J. Hoban j. Woolson M. Coale. 16