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

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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.

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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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joint induction Following a new precedenT The language honor socieTies held a ioinT inducTion again This year. AT This impressive ceremony, presided over by Dr. Aida Pizzinger, The new members oT The LaTin, Hebrew, French, Spanish Honor SocieTies, and The newly Tormecl ITalian Honor SocieTy were inducTed. The inducTees reciTed Their socieTy pledge. HighlighTing The program was The enTer- TainmenT presenTed by each group. The presence OT Dr. Filippo Donini, DirecTor oT The CulTural Division oT The ITalian Embassy. and lvlr. Roy E Mosher, Supervisor oT Foreign Languages EducaTion oT The STaTe EducaTion DeparTmenT, added much To an already evenTTul aTTernoon. The aTTair will long be remembered by The inducTees and Their parenTs. P rw vi, . , NJ., V 1 H. '51 I . 58. HEBREW HONOR SOCIETY IT you wallc along The corridors and you hear sTudenTs greeT each oTher wiTh Shalom, They are probably members oT The Hebrew Honor SocieTy. They speak a language as old as The Bible, and as modern as The sTaTe oT Israel, which is This year celebraTing iTs TenTh anniversary. Several oT The members have enriched Their classroom experiences wiTh Trips To Israel. AT meeTings The members sing songs in Hebrew and dance The Horas in ever widening circles. These acTiviTies enable us To live a richer exisTence, To roam Through Three Thousand years oT hisToric happenings, and To obTain a beTTer under- sTanding oT culTure Thousands OT miles away in space and yeT so much a parT oT us and our way oT liTe. JOINT INDUCTION hebrew a llll I fi ll . J., :Wiz ,UID I1---I. WEE, Urn i IE U D f ,rwqni rL1'1f n'lUfl'r-v LQQQNULFLBQ 1431 7 Q J 3,3 ru -2 X nu , T N Hn II I , -- U I fi' . mi III' ii . I ' ' 1 2? ' f Tfffii. Z ' ' is 0 i t-QFU1 .J -5 le' 23