McDonogh School - Dragon Yearbook (Owings Mills, MD)

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Inlirmurq WA Seated: Dr. Herbert Wilgis. Standing: Nurses Mrs. Anne Y. Lynch. Mrs. Nadaud Grogg. Putrnns tluh Sealed: Mr. Carl Hcinmuller, Jr., Vice-Prcsiderlh' Mrs. Charles P. McCausland, Corresponding Secrelary: Mr. Robert T. jefferson, Presidenl. Standing: Mr. Edward G. Kibler, Assixlunl Treasurer: Mr. E. Raymond Miller, jr., Trearurer.

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1 2 LoUIs H PALMER Head of Upper School Despnte pubhc concern for present methods of educatron, espectally rn the fields whlch has always emphaslzed the humanrtres and the scrences equally has not partrcularly trned thls year to make any kmd of academnc course stand out If anythmg the trend has been toward the human1t1es, as evldenced by the changes the Soclal Studres and Foretgn Language De partments plan to make next year Expansnon ID course sedectxons rn these departments IS bemg made to glve those wrth speclal rnter ests addrtxonal opportunmes to lncrease thenr knowledge 1n these fields Promlncnt IS thc mnovatlon thls past year of thc Advance Placement Progrlm Three sections nn the semor class ln Enghsh phySlCS and advanced mathematlcs were accelerated to do extra work As a result all the students not just those rn the advanced secttons have recenved better nnstructlon For the sectrons of physncs and Enghsh thc acceleratnon was such that the students were able to take the Advance Placement Examr natnons an opportumty to sk1p a year of Eng lnsh or physlcs rn college The mathematncs secnon was able to complete about half the college freshman work Students wnth aptttudes or lnterests rn clmed tow ard L1 partlcular held were allowed to emphaslze those subjects to a ltmrtccl Wlth the mcreased number of candrdates for colleges and un1vers1t1es these tnstltu tnons have begun to requrre applrcatlons and records sent rn earlner The result at Mc Donogh has been that the yunxor year has become more nmportant than rn the past All of these changes nn McDonogh s aca demnc system the accelerated program the new courses and a l1m1ted degree of specrall zatron have resulted nn a wrder selectnon of courses to surt students wnth a varrety of rn terests and abrlmes l A V ra , ' 1 . , A C 1 ' 4 Y A 4 ' .- Q . , . . Q . w I V A l ' , - v . 1 I y y of science and mathematics, McDonogh, degree. 1 1 v , s. I ' I U -1 7 , . 27