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

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Had Alice wanTed To avoid aTTending The Tea ParTy by blaming iT on an imagi- naTive illness her ploT never would have malerialized in The Long Beach High School l-lealTh OTTices. Under The able supervision of Miss AmasTasia V. Mack no one is given The opporTuniTy To use illness as a means of escape Tor anyThing. Services rendered by The HealTh OTTice include noT only The usual physical exami- naTions, eye TesTs, hearing TesTs, and denTal check-ups, buT a perplexing varieTy of daily complainTs which keep The sTalT consTanTly on The go. JusT imagine being bombarded by The same quesTions daily: Why can'T I have an aspirin? Do you Think This splinfer will be TaTal? May I be excused from gym? eTc. Need we say more? f.n.a. HEI HEALTH OFFICE ,hi- 4? Q V-,I H ltll if -, Nursing as a TuTure career, inTeresTs many high school girls. FuTure Nurses of America lF.N.A.l serves as an organizaTion which helps TormulaTe These inTeresTs inTo concreTe realizaTions. By Trips To hospiTals and schools of nursing and working wiTh The aged, They gain insighT inTo The nursing profession. GuesT speakers aT club meeTings are given The Third Degree by naTurally inquisiTive minds. F.N.A.

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5,,, Russif-xii ciue german To an already wide academic curriculum, our school has added sTill anoTher language-German- a language serving as a basis Tor English: a language oT greaT value in The inTerpreTaTion oT Technical sciences. AlThough we have had buT a year To learn German and The cusToms oT German people, The sTudy has been worThwhile, We have been inTroduced To AuT Wiedersehenf' a phrase appropo To our graduaTion senTimenT. T-Tere, we have had a glimmer oT The paThway Through which The pasT World Wars may be TorgoT- Ten, The paThway oT songs and IiTeraTure by which The enTire world may be drawn TogeTher in neighborly lcindness. 26 wp rus ian In The midsT oT an hour oi cold war rivalry: when scienTiTic l-cnowleclge holds poTenTial world desTrucTion, we oT The Russian Club have Tried a new approach- a way ThaT enhances The greaTness oT America while iT seelcs To com- prehend The greaTness ThaT is Russia-This way is Through under- sTanding. Through The once a monTh nighTly meeTings we have come To love The soTT and Tender beauTy ThaT is The Russian Tollc song accompanied by The mourne Tul guiTar and we have come To believe ThaT such beauTy can only be The producT oT hearTs ThaT have Tenderness: Tenderness ThaT is The ediTice oT whaT humaniTy sTands Tor. i-.gg ,A :T Ny . . GERMAN CLASS

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Qs MR, COEN 3 - B MR. MITCHELL 4? I ,-'P I X . X l MR, PIAZZA 6 i MR. ROBBINS if 'f . '7 'in A MR. STANGER 60' T Q MR. WITOFF 28 es Q. For The Times in which we live, iT is quiTe undesirable To have a looking-glass ThaT dissolves inTo misT and allows one To pass Through To anoTher world. YeT anoTher world is available To us wiTh The aid oT mirrors: The world QT science. Using reTlecTion To view our- ' S' selves and liTe around us, we begin To discover long hidden secreTs OT naTure. Through logic and experimenT we Tind ThaT seven maidens 'l - - ' --vl f ' wiTh mops could noT wipe The sand away Trom The beach lalThough. MR' KOPWOW oT course, we could have guessed ThaT!l. Under a microscope a gnaT appears as large as a chiclcen. This may sound possible only in a Tairy Tale, buT Truly, where unTil recenT years was The idea of E A space Travel buT in The creaTions of sTory Tellers. Indeed, in The if 5 realm oT scienTiTic achievemenT There are evenTs even more TanTasTic T and unbelievable Than The wildesT dreams. T 4 cience DR. NAPP Henry David Thoreau, Tamed naTuralisT and auThor oT Walden, once wroTe oT his experimenT: I wenT To The woods because I wished To live deliberaTely, To TronT The essenTial TacTs oT liTe, and see iT I could noT learn whaT iT had To Teach, and noT, when I came To die, discover ThaT I had noT lived. These words, direcTed Towards The Americans oT nearly a cenTury ago, are even more signiTicanT Today, in an age which many claim To be over-complex and mechanized. BuT scienTiTic progress does noT have To mean roboT-like auTomaTion, a Theme so popular in science TicTion sTories- iT can provide men wiTh The lcey To undersTanding Their surroundings: iT can be The microscope Through which They will be able To examine and scruTinize liTe. ln The Science Club, sTudenTs are made aware oT This microscope and TaughT how To use iT. In shorT, They are inTroduced To The reall beneTiTs oT scienTiTic progress and shown how To make liTe a more meaningful experience as a resulT oT Their exisTence. MR. M. SCI-IULTZ Chairman as vience club n MR. YOUNG