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

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ti Ours is a music department which can C proudly display the accolades it has received for outstanding performances. Our Senior Band is one of three finalists in a city-wide competition, one of which will play at this year's World Fair. Last June, Doris Lang, a Van Buren alumna, was honored by the Queens Village Rotary Club for her performance at the keyboard. Four of our fellow-graduates llrene Portalatin, Patricia Perry, Steven Liege, Philip de Felicel have been given the Lincoln Center Awards. But there are those of us who have never taken a course in Music Theory, nor played in the Dance Band, nor sung in the Mixed Chorus. What skills have we derived from our required music cycles? In the words of Dr. Orshan, the department's chairman: As applied to graduating seniors, their music courses should have given them the ability to make discriminating iudgments in music -and to choose between the worthwhile and the worthless in their everyday listening. The department has asserted its aims in exposing us to music, now we must formulate our own listening patterns. DR. ALLEN ORSHAN Chairman

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- Certainly in the technological and scientific world in which we live today, the average citizen must have some knowledge of the mathematical concepts and ideas which are the basis of the modern interpretation of the world, states Mr. Bramson, chairman of the Math Department. The mathematics curriculum in Van Buren includes Elementary Algebra, Geometry, Intermediate Algebra and Trigonometry, and a college advanced placement course in Calculus and Ana- lytic Geometry in the twelfth year, plus an array of extra-curricular activities ranging from the Math Team sponsored by Mr. Cabin, to the publication Horizons sponsored by Mr. Vinegrad and Mr. Wilson, to the Math Help Club sponsored by Mrs. Buxbaum. This year the department conducted a special experiment. The children from the three year Special Progress class in iunior high school, if eligible, were given the opportunity to take Math TO, ll, and T2 in two and a half years. . ,R wwf , My Lf,fj'1fi5 , Dgmlli My X,.WW,,cww Z , if . J :a '1f3z'f:1 ,V 2 'Y-,J '. .,. , K 2 A Qi? 'eh My 'ZW a ff, ,,,.,. xy rv, .f,,,, .nc 0455 , 'f fff 0 MR. MORRIS BRAMSON Chairman nb TX 'Www fv-, we , t' N 1 : 1 X WW ' . Ag V 251114

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' MR. JOSEPH CASTKA Chairman PHYSICAL SCIENCE Consciousness of our modern scientific world is evoked by the teachings of Chemistry, Physics, and college-level courses in both areas. With an eye on the use of almost every area of science in modern discoveries, the department keeps its students up to date by incorporating discussions of news events in science into the lessons, thus making them more stimulating. The Chemistry Lab and the Physics Lab are open to budding scientists and special attention is given to students entering the Future Scientists of America program and the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. This proved to be a credit to the school when Van Buren had nine semi-finalists and one finalist, Steve Glazer, surviving the stiff Westing- house competition.