Northwest Catholic High School - Noweca Yearbook (West Hartford, CT)

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3 1. MS CAROL CANORA, Science Department Chairman: Oh ndn-bright one, it ' s called homework. 2. , MR. DANIEL CARNEY, English Department: That was not your typical high school play. MR. JESSE CORCIULLO, Band: Trombone section, you have an assignment . . . 4. SR. CORNELIA COUGHLIN, Math Department: Will the next seven students please go up to the board? MAUREEN DENNEHY, Is that 5. MS English Department legal sweater? 6. MR. ROBERT DEBURRO, Eng- lish and Social Studies Depart- ments: There ain ' t no such thing as a free lunch. 7. MR. ROBERT EMOND, Social Studies Department: Com- pared to what . . . 8. MR. RONALD FENN, Depa rtment: Algebra, beautiful. 4 I Faculty 37

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If she was left on a deserted island, she would want only a few vital items with her film— and camera equip- ment, paints and paper, a stereo, and, of course, her Jackson Browne albums. Miss Dennehy, Mo to her friends, has been teach- ing at Northwest for four years. She likes teaching in a Catholic high school because she is familiar with the system. She was born in New Britain, Connecticut, went to Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, then to Villanova University in Pennsylvania. After a few teaching jobs, she came to Northwest to teach reading and English. She loves to teach and has found her years at North- west to be a real learning experience. She describes the Northwest community as a special, different one, where the people seem to really care. She also thinks that the kids here are concerned with their education, whether they admit to it or not. Aside from teaching, though, she claims she has a creative desire to fill. She loves art — water colors and sketching — and her favorite color is blue. I have a lot of yellow things in my room, but once I get them, I always wish they were blue. Her real interest, however, is in photography. It is an expression, she says, of lots of different things. What I ' d really like, you know, what my life time goal is, is to be a photographer for Sports Illustrated. She laughed for a minute and then became serious, But then I ' d have to leave Northwest. 1. MRS. ANA BARRETT, Lan- guage Department: Espanol, si, achino? 2. DR. JOSEPH BELLIZZI, School Doctor: Six years of medical school . . . 3. FR. LAWRENCE BOCK, Reli- gion Department: Relation- ships are the core of educa- tion. 4. MRS. MATILDA BOLTON, Lan- guage Department: ;Ay Car- amba! 36 Faculty

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1. MRS. LORRAINE FLORIO, Sci- ence Department: At this stage of the game . . . 2. MRS. LORI FULLER, Math Department Chairman: But that doesn ' t help us any does it? 3. SR. LENORE GORMAN, Para- professional: That ' s what the instructions say. 4. MR. MICHAEL GRIFFIN, Reli- gion Department: Be quiet during the prayer! Mrs. Lorraine Florio, who teaches biology, is a unique individual. She majored in nursing at the Hartford Hos- pital School of Nursing; and, as a Registered Nurse, she taught the Nursing Arts. It was then that she was first exposed to students and the teaching profession in gen- eral. Although she had already received a B.S. in Nurs- ing and Service, she returned to Central Connecticut State College to continue her education. She received her Master ' s of Education in the biological sciences and became a teacher. Mrs. Florio has been teaching at Northwest for eight years now; and although she is married with three chil- dren, she still finds time to be active at our school. She has been appointed as moderator of the National Honor Society and she wishes to involve the members in serv- ice and leadership, explaining, I strongly feel that the members of the Society should be leaders - not just scholastically, though. They should be applying their knowledge which qualified them to join the group in the first place. Mrs. Florio is very happy with our school and the envi- ronment that surrounds us during our sometimes long schooldays. She says that she has missed only about 10% of the basketball games in the past eight years. She has had many positive experiences here and she enjoys the strong community which exists at Northwest. Everyone works closely together and in unison, she commented, But the real value of our community is our diversity. 38 Faculty