New Lincoln School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Hebrew. We read and enjoyed The Odyssey as an example of Greek litrature, and most of the Bible as an example of Hebrew literature. We followed .,..-3--, our study of early Christianity by the reading of '-'- Dante's Divine Comedy . 0 Wood was our guiding light, leading us over the difficult places and explaining everything in de- tail. Despite this, there were arguments every day. HBut Dave,H Sue would say, Hyou Can't do ' ' that unless you've proved that triangles ABC and ABD are congruent, according to proposition ZQ section 76, on page i49.H NI beg your pardon, I I u ' la We were geometry students this year. Miss J K I -ig! can, in only 23 steps by.. ' 7 Miss Axelson need not wonder why nobody gain- Q' Q J. ed much weight this year, what with a, rugged phy- Z A f sical education program that included square- I v baseball. Several of our athletes made the var- . sity teams. pf WW' 9' ,,1.J - I ,Aix 4 , dancing, soccer, swimming, basketball, tennis and Q ,1':.... f is NV N 'f I , - X xx 15 by 9-'A K

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THE TE TH GR DE We were a small class this year, with only sixteen people. Among these were some very colorful characters, however. Our skills and talents ranged from those of cartoonist Steve Knight, to those of Silvio Estrada, a genius at the piano. This year found us well supplied with core teachers: Messrs John Davis, Jack Ryskind, and Leon Rosenthal. These gentlemen were unusual in some respects, but we think they were swell. It was under their leadership that, after a bit of debating, we decided on our goal for the year - a better understandihg of the world today . A few diehards fought to break core down into English and , Social Studies. This was partly accomplishedg start- :ff ing in November we had one period of straight English T-T ' a week. The other'ten periods were still referred to - as core. We experimented in methods: our first pro- Q Z ject, which was the world food problem, was all group workg the next project was completely teacher led This study centered around atomic energy from the social aspect, but took in the U. N. and a little about the tricks of commercial advertising. Core tem- porarily intergrated with our science course, in which, among other things such as astronomy and astrology, we studied atomic energy from the scientific aspect. Our next CQIQ project was concerned with the study of a primitive soc- iety as compared to a modern one. The class read HComing of Age in Samoan by Margeret Mead. when we began to study the modern culture, we found it necessary to study its main influences, in this case the Greek, Roman, and E c T

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8, If The The tens accomplished much in French this , ,3'1Rg,,L,,Hn' year, thanks to the excellent teaching of Mad- ,Qv y, W P ame Browne. Patiently, she drilled us in id- is iomatic expressions, irregular verbs, and per- ,yf :: sonal pronouns. She brought us the sad tale of -1 .1 . k,,e Frantz, in HLa Derniere Classen, and the heart- . ln breaking story of old Colonel Jouve in Le f!l?1l -I, Siege de Berlinn, both short stories by Al- ' U phonse Daudet. After these, we read HLe Petit Frinceu by Antoine de Saint Exupery. What's more, we did some recording this year, thus improving our pronunciation. flmogine hearing yourself as another Charles Boyerij Two of the class took Spanish with Senor Villarejo. One of our extra-curricular activities was the forming of the audio- visual aids committee, under the supervision of Mr. Davis. It was formed maiH1Y because of the need for operators to run the movie projector. How- ever, its members, all the tenth grade, also did other jobs such as ordering and returning films, announcing them to the faculty, and filing film cata- logues. Gradually, the other Classes began to share and take over the duties of the committee, until it became an all school committee. Let it be remem- bered, however, that we, the tenth grade, were the pioneers. we feel that we have really learned to work as a solidly united group this year, and that we are able to face any problems that next year may bring with a firm understanding. 'Q