Linton High School - Lintonaire Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Qclwlostw NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ANTHOLOGY-ART OF YOUNG AMERICA Wendy Andrews, Kurt Stein and Judy Cunningham. ART AWARDS Art work of three Lintorl students was this year ac- cepted to be published in Art of Young America, an anthology. N.C.T.E. ENGLISH-ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS JoAnn Strom and Ruth Rotundo. NCTE The National Council of Teachers of English pre- sented Ruth Rotundo with a cerfificate for excellence in English under its annual English Achievement Awards competition. Jo Ann Strom was named runnerup in the same contest. They both were cited for excellence in writing performance and literary awareness. There were 436 winners and 436 runnersup inthe nation from over 5,800 nominees. NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS Anne Oja, Joyce Altieri and Ruth Ann Rotundo. NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS Three Linton seniors were named National Merit Semi-finalists as a result of superior performance on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The test was taken in March, 1961, by more than 15,000 high school students. sw I

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0 EQ 0 0 PERSONAL TYPING Personal Typing is a half year, half unit course open to 10th, 11th, and 12th year students not in the Busi- ness Education Department. The course provides experi- ence in typing letters, manuscripts, outlines, and other projects of a personal-use nature. Knowledge of the keyboard and typing techniques are developed for accuracy and reasonable speed. Habits of neatness and accuracy are stressed. 4 BooKKEEP1NG II Bookkeeping II is an elective course including book- keeping, accounting, and a two-week period spent on the study of making out income tax forms. Primary emphasis is directed to the analysis of business trans- actions and financial information afforded thereby. This course gives the student some insight into the objectives of the course as taught in the first year of college. Miss Bucci helps Phyllis Cohen, set the margins on her type- writer in Personal Typing. ' Q The proper use of an adding machine is taught by Mr. Denofio. V

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NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY FRONT ROW, left to right: Stuart, Andrews, Family, Schaetzl, Pugh, Chestnut, Lapinski, Garoza, Kerr, Binder, Graper, Ossenfort, Bowne, Epstein. SECOND ROW: Seypura, McKechnie, Kraus, Pez- Vander Bogert. zano, Luebke,,Lake, Levy, Orkis, Foyle. THIRD ROW: Cirincione, POETRY ANTHOLOGY Twenty-nine students had poetry accepted for publication in the National High School Poetry Associations Anthology. Entitled c'Young America Singsf' the anthology will be pre- sented to the students on Senior Day. ESSAY ANTHOLOGY AWARDS Several Linton students this year had essays accepted for publication by the National Essay Anthology. On Senior Day each student whose essay had been accepted received a copy of the anthology. NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTORS FRONT ROW, left to right: Freeman, Crump, Oja, Luebke, Ro- tundo, Allen, Whipple, Schrader, Kline, Pezzano, Rippere, Foyle SECOND ROW: LaGrange, Byrd, Novak, Coffin, Lasdon, Bell Maurycy, Iovinella, Krawiecki, Gold, Schaetzl, DiSarro,' Anibal Cohen, Wilkinson, Cohen, Loiterstein, Morganstern, Family, Mc: Kechnie, Nappi, Kmetz, Yan Kleeck, King, McKiernan, Ruff, Mayer, Buckley, DiMatteo. THIRD ROW: Altvater, Cirincione, Cohen, Blumenthal, Stark, Altman, Ross, Czyzewski, Duguid, Kor- kosz, King, Kussman, Guely, Anderson, Epstein, Binder. FOURTH ROW: Gold, Crowe, Garoza, Newton, Gray, Ranucci, Bianchi, Jenkins. . ,...s,,..,,.,....n...,... ..,,,,,.,, .M SPELLING AWARD Annually several girls in the Business Education Department are awarded Spelling Proficiency Certificates by the National Office Management Association. To attain recognition, they have to acquire a perfect score on each of two 100-word tests, which comprise words selected by NOMA. NOMA AWARD WINNERS FRONT ROW, left to right, Arithmetic Certificates: J. Inman, B. Waleski, Missing: S. Truax. SECOND ROW, Spelling Proficiency Certificates: J. Tanski, L. Buckley, C. Marchant, M. ' DiPascual, J. Carron, P. Kmetz, B. Witkowski, B. Pieronek, K. Rossetti, M. Donohue. THg?D ' ' S- 69 ROW, Spelling Certificates: A. liamlano, Rapp, A, Nappi, C. Ingram, M. Otten, er- ling, J. Sableski, L. Costa, L. Marino, P. Mitchell, E. Riley, K. Korkin.