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

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MATT-T CLUB Under The direcTion oT Mr. Kirsch and Mr. Berglass, The MaTh Club sTrives To acquainT iTs members wiTh The subTleTies and inTricacies oT maThemaTics. AIA Though all sTudenTs may ioin, only Those wiTh a genuine TalenT and inTeresT in maThemaTics will proTiT from The club's acTiviTies. AT each meeTing, a member presenTs a lecTure explaining one oT The fine poinTs of maThemaTics To The group. The neT resulT of a year's membership is a greaTer apprecia- Tion of The beauTy and wonder of maThemaTics. This year's oTlicers were: Jaclc Diamond, PresidenT: Eric Foner, Vice President RoberT Fell, SecreTary-Treasurer. math club in a Checkerboard world-movemenT Through reasoning-playing boTh our selves and our opponenTs. A game oT inTellecT-enjoyment challenge. CheckmaTe-we are noT deTeaTed buT insTe-ad Pawns, roolcs, desirous of more learning. mysTery.

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I .ir-':'. l,..f.,f5 r l Q il fr MR. BERGLASS MR, GREENBAUM l Chairman ix N 0 0' ' ,'. , -2,1 ' g . N. h Q K g X H .9 ! ' I - l Q f V -. X Q MR. BERNSTEIN i li 43 G' - N 5 . I n lil. MR. FRANK - S i..-1 K .Ilia A MR. KIRSCH : l- ' ' --r 'U .Q K i-1: 3' ffm DP. MECKLER l - 3, As lhe Cheshire Cal presenled an enigma lo Alice by W . . I refusing lo appear as a whole, so malhemahcs poses a MR, TARDINO Q H .of 'I' ,K MRS. WElNSTElN Challenge To lhose who allernpl 'ro delve info ils principles. The parl-lhe whole: To lil lhe mulliludinous and perplexing pieces of lhe former inlo a reasonable, complele pallernq lo inlerloclc lheories, axioms, posrulales, laws, info a broad and lhorough comprehension ol malh-lhis is The allraclion which algebra, geomefry, and lrigonomelry hold for lhe sludenls ol loclay. We puzzle, we lhinlc, and finally we emerge wilh clearly defined answers, deep insighl-an enigma solved. Ati A Fauna-Z

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ig il',x 1,47 ll I MR. DEPRETORE X9 MR. GREENBERG MR ,ip- mfs. . MR. ANDREWS IHS? i MRS G MR. MARK MRS. RASSIG-A 9 i n H 3 ff' MR. WALRATH Chairman ocial ludiew 7 Through fhe ages men, rulers. and conquerors. have soughf +o upsef +he balance of +he scales of lushce fo gain accepfance and weighl' for unprin- cipled and democraiic ideals. Yef fhere has been a binding force, an inexorable spiri'r which has sacrificed fyranny and conlinually reborn liberry and freedom in many counfries . . . a force of peas- anis and workers, of businessmen and school chil- ren a deep roofed necessify of life-equalify before 'rhe law. l-lislory records This binding force. Fairhfully if also records The power crazed dicfafor, +he war frodden nalion, +he reborn people. 'rhe anhquafed ideals: for fhese records help us develop our own inlrinsic sirengih, sfrenglh lo view 'rhe whole, unbiased and unpreiudiced . . . sfrengfh 'lo hold our heads high and +o bofh sfumble and grow