Longmeadow High School - Masacksic Yearbook (Longmeadow, MA)

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1. Robert McCarthy 2. Thomas Nesbitt 3. William Ahern 4. William Thompson 5. Nicholas Guilli 6. David Stockwell 7. Robert Ness 8. Carlene Littlefield 9. Kenneth Woods 10. William Gatchell 11. Robert Greenwood 12. Alan Gorfin 13. Acton Wiley 14 George Griffin 15

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One of the best courses designed to prepare students for the SAT ' s was the Senior Math pro- gram. As a quarter course it was offered during the fall quarter of each year and was a good review of the mathematics learned in high school. The majority of the students who enrolled in this program had not scored as well on the SAT ' s as they would have liked. After taking the course, however, the students had a great deal more confidence in themselves, and they performed much better than before the class. A study of the course was taken by Mr. McCarthy who found that the students enrolled in Senior Math A did indeed improve their scores more than students not enrolling. Timed tests were frequently given for practice. They helped to improve the students ' skill in nar- rowing down answers and deciding when it was more profitable to guess rather than leave the answer blank. Most people enjoyed the course, because the pass-fail option lessened the normal pressures of a classroom. Personal improvement, the goal of Senior Math, was met successfully. 14

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1 Michael Gelinas 2. Peter Vangsness 3. Mr Gelinas enrapturing A Block histo- ry lecture 4. Francis Simanski 5. Peter Santos 6. Joseph Winseck 7. Stanley Ursprung 8. Raymond McKenna 9. Jesse Bowler 10. John Fitzgerald 11. Robert Leventhal 12 Robert Delano 13. Daniel Lynch