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

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ii-if forum club A person living in This day and age musT be well informed, and The well inTormed senior belongs To The Forum Club. Belonging To one parTicular parTy. club, or organizaTion does noT sTop him Trom expressing his views on any Topic. Since This year has been very crucial and decisive in The eyes oT The world, The club members have been broadening Their inTellecT by discussing The world in which we live. The possibiliTy of aTomic war, The building oT SpuTnilc, and The PresidenT's laTesT illness have all occupied The club members' ThoughTs. The Thinking and analyzing done by The club member gives him a wider scope and a Tirm basis Tor becoming an 4 FORUM CLUB inTelligenT individual. DEBATIN6 SOCIETY KEY -l 1l 4 fh- debating society AnyThing Trom Groucho Marx To The admission OT CommunisT China To The UniTed NaTions mighT be Tound on The agenda Tor The DebaTing SocieTy. These weelcly debaTes, which are held under The guidance of lvlr. Slcip 'WalraTh, develops The club members' slcills as debaTors and public speakers. ln The near TuTure our DebaTing SocieTy, which was originally Torrned as a branch of The Forum Club, hopes To sTarT an inTersTaTe debaTing Team ThaT will compeTe againsT Teams Trom Tour surrounding sTaTes. 2l

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Q .I ' MR. EDWARD GRAPE 'nf' . Y! We' N Ry Xxqgf 1 ! MR. HOWARD GREENBERG 5 i '5 'fi 34 V -,-,. X 4 X YN M RS. ETHNE MANZ -nfl- 12 Y W Q, MR. LEONARD POPPER f 'f 4 .9 Q 4 5, QQ T 5 ,, .Wx , .. , ,f 4, an Z fn tr ff , N. V . K ?'Zj,QA.l- ., .V MRS. EDNA RASSIGA 20 M PV' . , fd: wa- g .' ,I V f N Ar MR. HUGH T DiPREToRE BERRYMA THE U. N. U. S. GOVERNMENT SPUTNIK How did These Things come abouT? Their liTe sTory is parT oT our hisTory. Each oT Them has grown, like pTanTs, Trom seeds pTenTed in The pasT. To Thoroughly undersTand everyday Things we have To know how They were born . . . how They developed . . . whaT changes were made. T-TisTory records These changes and gives us The 'TiTe sTory oT These Things. MRS. BERTHA N A T..i. T r , .v.,. . ....,. ., fig 'Q 1- .,.. 1- Q , W ' .My MR. ROBERT ANDREWS Social Studies T' Pl.-.-is 1 Vs lr . MR. LANGDON WALRATH Chairman

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1 v f 1 5 - 1-'Q f P A DR, ALDA PIZZINGER Chairman ,Af fel-ff, , , f KA., vm' '- f r M. M, , M RS. MART!-l E LEVGY Z V 3 5 ff., A 1 DR. DAN! EL SAMUELS V7 , 'Vvv . I M RS. EDITH SANTONI 22 1 -4' V , ' ' V fi f- if .ML , ,, ...L ,,,, ,, ff - . . 'V - , MR. JULIO AMATRIAN MR. JOHN RITACCIO Languages , .DDDDD X i xxgfipev XX There is a cerfain magic fo foreign languages: a magic fhaf brings us vivid picfures of faraway counfries and sfrange cusfoms: a magic fhaf brings us an undersfanding of people who live in sociefies differenf from our own. Even fhe monofonous grammar rules of foreign language have magical qualifies, for if is cerfainly wonderful fo open a book, wriffen in a sfrange fongue, and find if infelligible and undersfandable. The magic of foreign languages has given us fhe power fo look info fhe minds and hearfs of sfrangers. And, oh! whaf an imporfanf power, for doesn'f undersfanding people ease prejudice and promofe peace? A foreign language is fhe lcey fhaf will open The doorway of human undersfanding.