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

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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

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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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D F3 mi SPANISH HONOR SOCIETY The sTudenTs oT The Spanish Language in L. B. H. S. are indeed honored when, providing Their average warranTs iT, They are inviTed To become a member oT The Spanish Honor SocieTy. The socieTy upholds The Tine sTandards oT The Spanish class, gives sTudenTs an incenTive To aTTain schoIasTic achieve- menTs in The Spanish language, and develops an inTeresT in Spanish and The Spanish-spealcing people Tor The sTudenTs wiThin The socieTy. Each and every Spanish sTudenT Takes greaT pride in his newly acquired language, and Teel a warmTh and sincere Triendship Towards The people oT The Spanish-speaking counTries oT The world. , f Through our French classes and Honor SocleTy we are broughT closer r To The people oT France. STudenTs Trom Long Beach High School may someday visiT France, and as They walls Through The sTreeTs They II be able To recall The Teachings oT Their French Teacherf I Each year The French .Honor SocieTy holds a colorful Tea To 1nducT The new members. Through The combined worlc oT TacuITy advisor Dr Alda Pizzinger and guaIiTied sTudenTs The Soc1eTy is able To plan many evenTs This year under The leadership oT able oTTicers The members hope To have a very successTuI year. ' FRENCH HONOR SOCIETY if if 7 K ' 4 ' N V , I is , T 555755 :I ' -. ' ' ' ' ,QQ iss- .. if , . , . -,., 4 , Q. , s , - .. 45, 5 T I ,.c..- I A,,4 , , - '-1 C1 2 I, f - , rv A I n T I vi i in Mk' A