Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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Irene L. Ladd Typing. Business Arthmetic Iver Laine Elizabeth H. Lamb Director of Audio English Visual Aids, Audio Visual Club Oscar E. Larson Head Custodian Within the five language electives, sequences can be accelerated in Latin and French but not in the others. Also Melrose High provides four laboratory sciences: biology, chemistry, physics and physics II. In the final analysis, a student ' s college curriculum program can be determined by the requirements of college catalogs; all questions seem to be answered there! The guidance department with five counselors comes to the aid of the student in his original choice of a curriculum as well as in his later choice of particular courses. For junior and senior college-preparatory students the guidance office becomes head- quarters for information about the important college board tests, while it also keeps a large selection of college catalogs available and maintains folders on the opportunities in various vocations. Priscilla Levy Stenographer Flora Lutz Social Studies Donald J. Mack Mathematics Eric W. Mansur Head of Science Department

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Henry W. Hughes Social Studies, Varsity Hockey, Baseball Coach Sara R. Hume Typing 1 II Literature is taught through illustrative pic- tures. Helen M. C. Hickey Bookkeeping Richard L. Hildreth Head of Social Studies Department , F.T.A. Adviser Joseph D Hoague Director of Physical Education and Athletics, Varsity Football Coach The Alternate College Preparatory Curriculum prepares students for college with a greater variety of courses than the straight College Preparatory Curriculum offers. The choice of electives, which can run the gamut from salesmanship to Latin to phys- ics, is combined with definite requirements in English, mathematics, and social studies. This curriculum requires an additional year of study before a student can enter a four year college or may lead directly into junior college. The College Preparatory Curriculum is provided for students definitely intending to go on to college. Its requirements are stricter than those of the other curricula; foreign languages, sciences, mathematics, history, and English in larger amounts are required. Here the necessary mathematics courses are in four year sequences rather than in one year courses as in the other curricula. Marion E. Hume Commercial Geography and Typing John P. Killilea Science, Varsity Basketball Coach Alice C. Kramer Commercial Arithmetic, Filing, Office Procedures Alice L. Heald Modern Languages . Sophomore Class Adnser Anna Kelley Stenographer Helen G. Kershaw Head of Latin Department, Junior Classical League, Honor Society David I. Hoyle Chemistry. Faculty Manager

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Ruth Jane Musica School Nurse N. Yvonne Miche French James Morse English. Girls ' Cluh Adviser Ronald J. Musto English Warren F. Nash Head of Modern Language Department With all the current pressure on the college course students to score well on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, the junior year Scholastic Apitude Test, the senior year SAT and any necessary Achievement Tests, the English and Mathematics Departments have organized to face this challenge. Now juniors and seniors are drilled on test-taking techniques and alerted to unusual question format. They learn long lists of vocabulary words, cor- rect faulty sentences, solve the different types of math problems to learn their inherent idiosyncrasies. These students even spend their activity periods at special preparatory classes. Irving Nieman Mathematics. S.A.T. Office Evelyn L. Nelson Office Machines The preponderance of college-bound students at Melrose High School has brought new responsibilities to the administration. How to prepare them all while at the same time maintaining the quality that makes the curriculum truly college preparatory is the problem. Irene M. Fatten English Carolyn T. Pike Latin Kathleen M. Pike Library Assistant James E. Reid Latin 14