Mineola High School - Signet Yearbook (Mineola, NY)

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FOREWORD The sea evokes many different moods. The sea is very much like us high school students. It is sometimes furious and violent, tearing, wash- ing away, and wasteful. At other times it is calm, gentle, almost com- passionate in its quiet movements. We are undergoing a great but strange metamorphosis. We are going, sometimes rapidly, sometimes painfully slowly, toward adulthood. High school will be the last protective cove for some of us, for directly after graduation many will seek their for- tunes on the stormy seas of life. Others will have the privilege of going on to college, however, and continuing in a calmer atmosphere. However we look at ourselves, though, we can see a comparison with the restless, moving sea. Because of this, the SIGNET has chosen for its theme this year the sea. TABLE OF CONTENTS School Staff ........................................... 5 Underclassmen ........................................ 17 Seniors ............................................... 31 Athletics ............................................. 59 Activities ............................................ 77 New Courses ...........................................101

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Zhe admiralty...and The first recorded meeting of the Board of Education of the Mineola Public Schools was on October 13, 1868. Since that time the school system has expanded to include six schools, with a seventh in the planning stage. With the expansion in the number of schools the responsibility of the board to the students and the taxpayers has greatly increased since the problems of insuring proper education and opportunities for all students in our schools have become more complex. It is the specific job of the Board of Education to set up the policy to be followed in all of the schools and to plan an adequate, interesting, and acceptable curriculum for the vocational, the. aca- demic, and the business students. The members of the board are elected by the people of Dis- trict No. 10 for terms of three or five years. During this tenure of office they serve the district and the taxpayer to the best of their ability and judgment without monetary compensation. BOARD OF EDUCATION.' Seated: Mrs. Marie Dowling, Dr. Ernest Michaelson (President), Mrs. Margaret Kothe. Standing: Mr. James Barron, Mr. Joseph Besosa (Vice-President). 6