Matawan High School - Pillar Yearbook (Matawan, NJ)

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industrial arts department Mr. John Hyer, chairman Mr. Ronald Kamin Mr. Anthony McKenna The Industrial Arts department offers male students the opportunity of taking, upon invitation, the Monmouth County vocational course in metal working in their junior and senior years. Any student who has taken general shop and wood shop is eligible to be chosen. The dept, also offers four years of mechanical drawing and two years of electricity and electronics. Mr. Franklin Pinkus Mr. Charles Burke Mr. Daniel Russell 15

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foreign language department Leslie Bobb Madame Deitrick Ralph Cutro Benjamin Kurtz. Chairman Pamela Hall Richard Holler Patricia Weltner Doris Perkins The Foreign Language Department this year continued to the new Audio-Lingual instruction method, as opposed to the older method of textbook drill and silent reading. This older method is still used in some of the more advanced classes, but is being phased-out year by year. And. for the second year, the Language Department has had everybody's favorite, the Language lab. at its disposal. Here, from one person to an entire class can listen and work with prepared tapes, take tests, or listen to foreign records, thus nicely complimenting the Audio-Lingual method. 14

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home economics department Florence Ochs. Anne Frazier Chairman Mary Smith In order to give the students a more thorough education in the basics of Home Economics, the Home Ec. Department is divided into three main divisions, each with its own teacher. In Home Living, where the emphasis is on the homemaker as a consumer, students study decorating, child care, cleaning, and general homemaking. Students in Cooking first study nutrition, and then §o on to meal planning and the actual preparation of simple meals. In Sewing, after having made tote bags and pillowcases to acquaint them with the sewing machines, the students go right into making their own clothes, learning more and more as they go along. 16