New Bedford High School - Crimson Log Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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PAUL R. BOISVERT THEODORE J. CALNAN WALKER B. TRAFTON Department Head ae HENRY S. CEMBALISTY HENRY L. LAGUE praesaS ABEL % a WILLIAM MARKEY ROBERT R. MILLEN, JR. VIRGINIA K. SHERBINO 10

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RUTH PERRY Department Head Mathematics To meet the challenge of the revolution taking place in the teaching of secondary- schools mathematics, the Mathematics De- partment is slowly fitting into its program those new ideas which will provide the best education for its students. Under the National Defense Education Act, the department has received valuable additions to its equipment, among them a calculator, sextant, parallel rule, planimeter, and pantograph. Films and filmstrips broaden the program. A new work-room is available to supplement class-room instruction. Two classes carried out experiments with new material in modern mathematics. Seniors preparing for college may now take 9 mathematics seven periods weekly, thus en- posit riching their courses. eR | EDITH C. WOLLISON JOHN S. MASLANKA RAYMOND L. VIEIRA = a WILLIAM R. NORRIS JOAN PARK JAMES A. WORDEN

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Pirtureless HAROLD D. GIBBS WILLIAM F. POLAND, JR. With the rising interest in science, New Bedford High School has been fortunate in obtaining a great deal of modern equipment, under the National Defense Education Act; this Act provides that the Federal Govern- ment reimburse the city 50% on all science equipment purchased. ‘Teachers encourage students to use even the most expensive equipment, knowing that the experience gained is of such great value that the cost of occasional repairs to the machines is minimized. Asa result, students in physics classes become familiar with much equipment they will later use in college. ‘The physics pilot class covers in one year the fundamentals of college freshman physics. Chemistry courses, too, have profited. Students are reaping the benefits of the latest in teaching techniques, audio-visual aids, and 11 laboratory equipment. Teachers are kept constantly alert and students constantly in- terested. Studies in physiology and biology are supplemented still more by the use of special equipment. Powerful microscopes and cen- trituges, skeletons and other models, a new greenhouse where students may study the magic world of plants, are all a part of the widening horizon of the science student. Science is not a subject which remains the same and can be taught in the same way A texbook printed in 1961 is obsolete in 1962; the basic standards may year after year. change — and it is the teacher’s job to keep up Many members of the Science Department with all innovations and discoveries. take special summer courses to keep up with the ever-growing, ever-enlightening world of science.