Long Branch High School - Green Wave Yearbook (Long Branch, NJ)

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Administration Concentrates on Curriculum Innovations sv QQ? 'Wttzr Philip De5antis John E. Dugan Activities C0-ordinalor Principal Ks Thomas Maggy, Paul Vandermark Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Thr Administration contmutd tht tremendous projevt of updating tht- sehool. This year. modern ed- uvational approavhes were used to avveitttiate thc relex'z1r1r'r- oltotirst-s. Partieularly in English and His- tory vlasses, reliance on thc olrl standards was dis- couraged. instead, multi-tc-xt courses and applied films were initiated. With student lrody vontavts, the Administration's involvement in thc Student-Faculty Advisory rom- mittef' resulted in many ehanges. By introduving tht- Mini-Coursvs, tht- Administration brought some rf-- lireshing. untried ideas into tht- traditional study halls. These brief' courses were seleelerl by the stu- dents lrom a list prepared ln que-stiotmaircs virctilat- ed long helore. They entailed neither avadc-mit' ered- it. nor homework. However, they would not have been feasible with- out another Administration breakthrough f the new study' hall program. Free studies relvasetl the stu- dent from the tedious boredom ol' classroom studies. For the Administration, it was a year of' Curriculum rejuvenation. LEFT A long afternoon of srrl ous discussion is mirrored in the weary faces of the Board members. ABOVE LEFT: The Board of Eduva- tion systematically rc--evaluates courses. ABOVE: Mr. Maggio searches for a student's schedule.

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f r' Board Expands Scholastic Program As a directing form-, the Board ol'ljdu1'allon, hvad- ed by Mr. Seymour Crvvnspan. fullillvd its olnjrwtiws only by Constant ro-evaluation ol' the nr-1-ds ol' the school. One important arrfa rv-1-valuatr-rl and lurthr-r rv- lined this ycar was in thv various course-s ol'l'1-rr-nl, with Journalism and Comparatiw Communivations added to thc English D4-partmz-nt, Math Rr-xii-w added to the- Maths-rnatif's Dvpartmvnt. and thi- ne-w Unificvd Scimim' voursv invorporatvrl into tlw svir-rivcf program. Thv Board also institutfal an iii-sr-rxiu' 1-duiralional program and workshop att:-ndf-d ln many English and Sovial Studios tvavhr-rs. This spirit of critival appraisf-mc-nt was 4-wn lur- thcr vxlvndr-d to thi' mats-rial Ilf'1'IlS ol' thr- svhool. The Board ff'0IlSlllt'I'4'Il and ruin-xsral proposals to update- and I'0l,llI'lJlSll Sr'if'r1c'v, Art, and Physical Fidu- vation lawilitie-s of the- svhool. The Drug Alrusv Program, mandated ln Now ,lor- svy law. was c'ondum'tc-d in the- hope- of llllf'fLI'LillIlgI a sound lmowlcvrlgv ol' ilu- drug prolmlvm into the svhool f-urrirulum. 4,,.,,,L ,Y , , f fQw3'tQg4?jg5f , f , wma, VZ ,Y .. , nl, -A 'iw hu. W 'ba- Qxkx 'yr '-s-....,. ww M

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Guidance Dept. Expose S a Mlsconceptlon .4nf y 24 'QF qw.. Theodora Aposlolacus Nicholas Murano Kenneth Schroeck ,LQ 51 all '!....r Thomas Simmons Wayne Stevenson jane Tonzola ' M w-L.