Martin Van Buren High School - Futura Yearbook (Queens Village, NY)

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5x 1 :gg Sight Xl ,V a ,, s ,, MATH TEAM ,, li ., 2 5 2 5 2 Martin Van Buren High School's Math Team, which consisted of approximately thirty-five students, met the seventh period all through the year. The team was given assistance and firm direction by Mr. Sidney Cabin, mathematician extraordinaire. Both he and William Anscher, the team captain, were well pleased with the team's accomplishments for the year. The meetings were put to good use by the members, in diligently working on practice problems. This proved to be excellent preparation for the competitions in which twenty-eight other New York City High Schools, belonging to the Inter-Scholastic Mathematics League, took part. BOOSTERS USHERS l l y - l

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I' Y-3 I gi. - fe Arista, an honor society which was founded half a century ago, is comprised of four percent of the student body, personifying the very meaning of the Greek, word Arista -the best. All members excel in scholarship, character, service, cooperation and loyalty to the highest ideals of Van Buren. Arista has been led and inspired these past six years by Mrs. Eileen Boylan, with the aid of ten faculty members who are known as the Arista Senate. The Senate mem- bers actively participate in the selection of members, and sponsor activities which do not occur during the monthly Arista meetings. The meetings are primarily used for the presentation of informative lectures by various members of the faculty. They are conducted by either the Boy Leader, Steven Moskowitz, or by the Girl Leader, Marcy J. Rosen. The organization also publishes a newsletter containing any information which is pertinent to the society. There is a tutoring system, run by the Arista Secretary, Dona Schatz, by which students who are weak in any subiect can get aid from an Arista member who is strong in that field. This society lives up to its ideals, creating an atmosphere of promising intellect and character which shines throughout the school. Among the bright arrivals this year on the Martin Van Buren High School scene is the Science Honor Society, consisting of the top math and science students in the school. These students of the test tube and the slide rule meet during assembly periods to probe deeper into the realms of the seen and unseen world around them. Under the direction of Mrs. Friedenreich, many members have tackled proiects ranging from biology to physics. These are the people whose goal is success in the Westing- house Talent Search, and whose keen minds will take their place tomorrow in the world of science. . . X HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY

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BEN FRANKLIN To foster and perpetuate the ideals of Beniamin Franklin. This is the motto of Van Buren's Ben Franklin Club. The Club's members try to live up to their motto by holding regular meetings at which additional instruction and plans for the future are discussed. The Ben Franklin Club performs a great service for the school by printing up many of the forms and papers necessary in an educational institution such as Van Buren. The officers for the Spring term of 1963 are: Douglas Abbes, President, Gerald Nacheman, Vice- President, Terry Nahlik, Secretary, Hayro Ayvazyan, Treasurer, and Sheldon Forman, Historian. ln April of this year the Ben Franklin Club took a trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. This trip helped all the members to gain a better under- standing of the life and work of Beniamin Franklin. l. X JR. RED CROSS Mrs. Wirth, the faculty advisor of the Junior Red Cross in Martin Van Buren, explained there are two general fund raising periods, one is the Christmas- New Year Season and the other is in March, which is designated as Red Cross Month. The thirty-five members of the Red Cross Club, besides their other activities, such as making articles for hospitals, decorating the hospitals for special events, and becoming general volunteers, have be- gun work on a scrapbook which is to be sent to a sister school in Japan. Red Cross service is not confined to winter activi- ties. Its extensive summer program includes hospital, playground and blood bank work. The representa- tives, of which Martin Van Buren has four, to the City Red Cross Council participate in these programs as well as special ones such as presenting plays to be given at different hospitals.