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

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a message from the chairman WiTh The inauguraTion of The Teaching of Russian and German This Tall, The Long Beach High School oTTers iTs sTudenT body a choice of seven of The world's chief languages. The oTher Tive include French, Spanish, lTalian, LaTin and Hebrew. TwenTy-Three sTudenTs are now sTudying Russian, and sixTy are enrolled in The Two beginning German classes. In his earnesT desire To encourage The beTTer sTudenTs To conTinue Their sTudy oT a foreign language ThroughouT Their high school career, The Principal of The High School, Mr. Joseph Borzilleri, esTablished TourTh year classes in French. Spanish, LaTin, and Hebrew a few years ago. AddiTional TourTh year classes will be oTTered wiThin The nexT Tew years Tor The oTher languages recenTly included in The curriculum. For The pasT many years The various Foreign Language Honor SocieTies aT The school have given The sTudenTs The opporTuniTy To express Themselves creaTively ouTside of The regular classroom procedure. ln addiTion To The culTural and social values oTiered by These Honor SocieTies, The sTudenTs are kepT in consTanT Touch wiTh The besT vocaTional and occupaTional opporTuniTies by The High School's Guidance DeparTmenT. hebrew Unlike mosT languages, Hebrew is boTh classic and modern, IT ' combines The TradiTions of The pasT lT has been a medium oi hisTory over several Thousand years and iT is now a naTive Tongue Tor a modern naTion. There is beauTy in The words . . . simpliciTy in The phrases . . . sTrong images in iTs poeTry . . . sincere emoTion in iTs prose. IT has survived The decay of civiIizaTions and iT has enriched The lives of The culTure. undersTanding and speaking iTs Tongue. More Than This, Hebrew has imbibed scholars and high school sTudenTs alike wiTh a deep love and respecT Tor knowledge. 23 HEBREW HQNQR SQCIETY and The innovaTions of The presenT. l I I - f . ran-mv'

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languages Fi' DR- PIZZINGER MR. AMATRIAIN Chairman 2 Y S1 as a- . , Miss JURAN ,f'6,'fN'2::g , are '12 .1 , 4 , .Max L if 'ti' il , .E .V Mas. Lsvov 11.5 X MRS. RISKIN va - g 12. 1:-r ,,,. W xv 'il' DR. SAMUELS MR, RlTACClO Language is more fhan iusf verbal communication, if represenfs an enfire people-fheir way of life, and fheir confribufions +0 Civili- zafion. In fhis manner, each language is a sign posf and a means of confacf wifh a new world. We are sfrangers fo fhis world if our knowledge of ifs culfure is resfricfed fo franslafionsq a simple example of fhis is fhe facf fhaf an idiom peculiar fo one fongue cannof be exacfly reproduced in anofher. To one who has never heard fhe expression. if will, of course. malce no sense af all. Alice found herself in a similar posifion upon firsf hearing fhe words of Carroll's famous Jabberwoclcy poem. Affer her inifial bewildermenf fhey seemed so ridiculous, fhaf she found if difficulf fo resfrain her laughfer. However, if is possible fhaf fhe aufhor infended fo provoke more fhan iusf amusemenf--perhaps a parallel can be drawn in our failure fo respecf fhe iabberwoclcy of currenf immigranf groups, or on a larger scale, reconcile our differences af fhe Geneva summif conference. Having had fhe opporfunify fo explore differenf culfures in our language classes. we are now much beffer equipped fo cope wifh fhe challenge which human relafions always presenf, whelher on a local or infernafional level.

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:'f'tf'i LATIN HONOR SOCIETY latin A .Q X 1 .1 CH T 4 X l Ot ll lTalian-a comparaTively new subiecT in Long Beach. has come inTo iTs own This year. STudenTs, eager To learn oT The language and culTure of a TascinaTing race, have made lTalian a Top ranking elecTive. The lTalian Honor SocieTy has embarked on many a culTural and social exploiT during The pasT year. lTs adviser, Mr. John RiTaccio, a naTive of lTaly, has provided The SocieTy wiTh a wealTh oT TirsT hand inTormaTion regarding The cusToms and mannerisrns of The ITalian people. All who have Taken The language Teel iusT a liTTle biT closer To The spiriT ThaT was DanTe's and Da Vinci's-The SpiriT ThaT is lTaly. l LaTin-a language bofh colorful and complex: a language used by a people wiTh a way of life alien Trom ours. YeT, one Tinds ThaT greaT works by The immorTal liTerary masTers have bridged The cenTuries and are read even Today. This year saw The addiTion of a LaTin 4 course To The curriculum. Senior sTudenTs realized noT only The imporTance oT This, The moTher Tongue oT English, buT also The enioyrnenT which can be experienced only by TranslaTing The original composiTions of such men as Vergil and Ovid. ThroughouT our Tour years The LaTin Honor SocieTy has grown considerably in size. Numerous Teas, inTormal discussions, and Tield Trips have made The Sociefy an imporTanT school club. ITALIAN HONOR SOCIETY IZEZEQ Qj WWUOp 713' 'lf M1201 l ffl 7 ', A T f'ifTflfmf,. 4 f 1 lUf7f7f?fj,7 ydidqg M M fl X ' j . 7 77 mgx