Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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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

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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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nHmmm ■H Philip A. Stackpole Mathematics, Floormaster George S. Sherman Modern Languages Arthur D. Simonds, III Sophomore Class Adviser Olga E, Sachs Home Economics Willard W. Robinson Art, IMPRINT Art Adviser In response, new areas of learning have been opened up through tape recordings, movies, television, and assemblies plus the already strong extra-curricular program of activities. The strength of the curricula here at Melrose High lies in the variety and depth of the courses offered. If a student’s interests lie in science there are eight science subjects and eleven mathematics courses in two sequences that he can elect. Equally strong are the language departments, Modern and Latin together, offering twenty-two courses in five languages — eight Latin; seven Lrench, three Spanish, two German, and two Russian. The reading skills mastered each year build up until a freshman taking his first glimpse of a subject can, four years later, be reading the great master- pieces of the tongue. Similarly, the variety of speech and reading classes is com- plemented by the depth of the compulsory composition and literature English courses. Paul N. Roberts General Business, Commercial Arithmetic Stanley I. Robinson Freshman Class Adviser Agnes I. Ring Head of Commercial Department, Honor Society Adviser William J. Reynolds Physical Education, Gymnastics Anne M. Ridley English Norman O. Rockwood Head of Math Department , . • Dorothy M. Rose Ecoutez bien mes petits , , , r Librarian, Library Club choux!