Long Beach High School - Echo Yearbook (Long Beach, NY)

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creative writing I-Iave you daydreams oT becoming a well known auThor wiTh your boolc number one on The besTseller lisT, or named as one oT The greaT classics oT our Time? OT course, mosT people were noT born wiTh a pen in Their hand and an inspiraTion in Their head. l-lowever, There are ways oT improving whaT ideas and ThoughTs They do possess and one such meThod is belonging To The CreaTive WriTing Club. under The guidance oT Mr. I-loward Harrison. This organizaTion is designed To encourage budding auThors To express Themselves more maTurely and clearly. This is accomplished by inviT- ing proTessionaI auThors To lecTure on sTyles and meThods oT wriTing, and also, by having sTudenT conTerences aT which Their wriTing is examined and criTicized. Their liTerary magazine, FragmenTs, is The collecTion oT sTories, plays and poems which have been selecTed as The ouTsTanding ones Trom Those submiT-Ted by The members and anyone else who has wriTTen an inTeresTing and enjoyable worlc. Our ThoughTs and minds are enriched wiTh The help and lcnowledge we have received by being a parT oT The CreaTive WriTing Club. K4 -.-4, ., 6 . .. If -Z , v , .W V ,V L , 6 lv' '14 -in. W . I , f'., Q, ,nf er- Bf ,wi CREATIVE WRITING CLUB W e FRAGM ENTS STAFF I if N 'Vids

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4 li T From The Time The Long Beach l-ligh School Tide was TirsT published in The early l93O's, iTs principal TuncTion has been To reporT and inTerpreT accuraTely The news oT The school and The com- muniTy. Through The years The paper has grown Trom iTs original Tour page Torm inTo a six page paper published monThly. Showing a desire To lceep up To daTe wiTh modern Trends in The iournalism Tield, The Tide is a member oT boTh The Columbia ScholasTic Press AssociaTion and The Nassau ScholasTic Press AssociaTion. BoTh associaTions hold conTerences each year which sTaTT members aTTend To gain valuable inTormaTion on publishing a school newspaper. LecTurers are prominenT American iournalisTs. Working hand in hand wiTh The Tide is The Long Beach ChapTer oT The Quill and Scroll, an inTernaTional honor socieTy Tor high school journal- isTs, The purpose oT which is To encourage and reward individual achievemenTs in iournalism and allied Tields. be is W cw W' iso LJ' ft s Dv 3- m9'iXxxCr5'f , time K ff!! i ,Xa X 9316 ' - cs ea we BT xv' we is Ti ,V , xiao-CicV,:iQsnSgJY' X ,cwewgna 3: C90 6,0 fad 3 xo sfkiovc 6 as A9 lf l i A 2 TIM ii ey?

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SPEECH CLUB speech club You can wriggle your ears, wave your hands, or raise your eyebrows, buT The easiesT way To ex- press yourselT is To speak. This is The aim behind The Speech ArTs Club under The direcTion oT Mrs. Sandra Baum. Through Their various acTiviTies, The members oT This club sTrive To increase Their know- ledge oT The speech arTs, To develop poise, To over- come sTage TrighT, and To enunciaTe disTincTly. Trips To a Perry Como rehearsal and play help To acguainT The members wiTh The arT oT dramaTics. An appreciaTion oT poeTry is reached by learning how To read poems properly. Poise is developed, and sTage TrighT overcome, by parTicipaTion in plays, and by The use oT a Tape recorder which is noT only Tun, buT can also be proTiTable. IT is called speech, and The aim is selT expression. , iilfiil T T -N. a v 3 vvv 7 '- P.. liiiiiil T I A - V I :Q 4 all 'N N 1 , lg I my llllli ,T 3 lTlbrHry . Staff. y g A ,. Books ii Q . . I more books? i.i . ,T TeXT books, periodicals, iTicTion, or nonf TicTiogn, reach has iTs'place. By opening a book we may be Tra'nsporTed back inTo Time, across oceans, oruT inTo space, or we may gain The precious know- ledge oT hisTorians, iphilosophers, or scienTisTs., The library, underThe supervision oT ourj librariains, Edward Murphy and Mrs. Jerri Hand, is a vasT sTorehouse oTiinTormaTion and diversion. TT y T TTThe library sTaTT, consisTing of volunTeers Troma The T sTudenT body, Q is largelyi responsible Tor Theeehficiencyj which enables sTudenTs andifeacherls alike To Tind whaT They are seeking guicklyfiand easily. Aside Trom Their regular. duTies af shelving and binding- books, alphabeTizing cards, saaiysssisi- ing aT The desk, The sTaTT goes on an annualifripi for knowledge and pleasure., T ' ef, T y T Be iT pasT, presenT. or TuTure, gbookslwill always be impoi'TanT. T T T T LIBRARY STAFF T i I6 ,, 4, A .4 .fill , ,T