Matawan High School - Pillar Yearbook (Matawan, NJ)

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Albert Levine. Department Chairman Frances Adler business department In keeping up with today’s modern, fast-paced, mechanized business world, the Business Department has once again offered some of its more advanced courses to anyone who is at all interested in this type of business training. Besides the regular typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping courses, students can also choose from such courses as Business Machines, and Data Processing (although to be eligible for Data Processing, you are required to pass a special test). And for the aspiring secretary and office worker, there is a special course in Secretarial Training and Practice, in which the students are sent out to various businesses in the area for job experience. Florence Bodziak Clara Carver Maryann Donlin Sophomore Jackie Hoppes works dilligcntly at her typewriter Rosemary King 18 Every typing student knows that practice makes perfect. ' and so it's bang — bang — bang on the typewriter at every ' possible opportunity. V Joseph Murray i You’ve got to stay calm composed during a timed writing if you want to pass it with as few mistakes as possible.

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science department The Science Department's newest course. Advanced Biology, went into its second year this year. This course is almost completely labwork, as are its predecessors. B.S.C.S. Blue and B.S.C.S. Yellow, distinguishing them from the regular first-year Biology courses. This year too. Freshmen were again allowed to take first-year Biology, giving them a head start in the Science Department, so that in later years, they would be able to take other Science courses, such as Chemistry. Electronics, and Physics, which boasts of expensive and specialized equipment, among them, the ripple-tank and stoboscope equipment. Bertha Hyrne Margaret Kerwin Betty Wyckoff Michael Kolatis Harvey LaTourette

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math department William Lawlor Florence Manville For the third consecutive year, the Math Department has carried out its successful self study program in the Algebra II. classes, whereby the students work at their own speed. Among the school’s required Math courses are Algebra I., and Plane Geometry, in which the students annually create Geometrical figures to decorate the Christmas tree in the school lobby. Other courses include Calculus. Advanced Geometry, and a half-year course. Trigonometry. This year, many of the Math classes were fortunate to witness a computer demonstration, presented by Wang Laboratories. Nellie Noddings Elizabeth Roessner Catherine Stddons 19