Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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. Golf Swing This year ' s golf team is one of JC ' s best. With only two returning players, the team can still send seven or eight players to tourn- aments at anytime. The returning players Mike Mouw and Randy Cropp, are both having a good season. New starting play- ers with past experience are Ken Green, Brad Milam, Rick Fellenstein, Kim Swan, Joe Nieporte, and Mike Mortell. Ken Green, one of the team ' s most pro- mising players, has consistently finished with low scores through out the season. Another low scorer. Brad Milam, has also had some local experience. Kim Swan, from Bermuda, comes to JC with many tournament wins behind him. Rick Fellenstein won the WPB Country Club Men ' s Association Tournament to qualify as one of the six scholarship players. Joe Nieporte and Mike Mortell are also both having good seasons. The team started off their season with an easy win at the Indian River Invitational. Through out the other four fall tournaments they have been preparing for a more pres- tigious winter season. The winter schedule includes the district and state tournaments. With their back- ground and experience, the team hopes to finish in the top 25% at state. Coach San- culius is very pleased with the team ' s pro- gress and showing. bRENDA SHIRE 19

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Girls ' Collegiate Volleyball Pacers spike A new collegiate sport at JC this year is girl ' s volleyball. Although they are a young team and inexperienced in competition, the girls played well this year. The girls competed with other junior and community college teams, finishing their season with the state tournament in Or- lando. John Anderson, the assistant coach, stated that at times the girls played the kind of ball he knew they could play and at other times he felt they could have done better. He feels that with more practice and harder work, they will be a more competitive team. Both head coach Bobbie Knowles and Ander- son are proud of the girls ' winning season. The ten member team consists of Sonia Barazza, Peggy Egan, Doreen Macway, Melis- sa Meyers, Laura Pierce, Mary Schuehler, Valerie Valenti, Colleen Worwock, Donna Maratta and Joanne Slater. The girls practice Monday through Thurs- day from 2:00 to 3:30 in the gym. Anyone who thinks volleyball is an easy sport should attend one of the practice sessions. The sessions not only consist of regular games, but also running and a variety of drills. Volleyball is only played during the fall season. In the winter term, it is replaced by girl ' s softball. Next fall should prove to be an excellent season for the team. BRENDA SHIRE 18

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What would happen if an average Palm Beach Junior College student, cruising down Congress Avenue, suddenly saw a sign read- ing: speed limit, seventy kilometers per hour Would he be shocked? Confused? Would he know how to think metrically? The sad fact is that not many students or other or- dinary citizens would know exactly how fast he should be travelling. This lack of knowledge results from the United States not using the metric system. We are the last major nation in the world that has not adopted this system. How- ever, our country is changing slowly but surely, to this easy and efficient system. Already, the leading automobile firms are manufacturing their parts in metric weights and sizes. Soon, gasoline, wines, and paints will be sold in liters. Food and canned goods packagers are pres- ently coming out with English and metric weights on their labels to help consumers change over more easily. By 1978, the government plans to have the metric system introduced into the cur- riculum of all schools. In many states this is already in the process. For that matter, here on campus, in the math dept- artment is a new program designed to teach students the metric system. This course, lasting five weeks, is an intro- duction to the practical uses of the metric system and its advantages over our own. Let ' s take a minute to discuss the whole scheme of modules, as they are also a rela- tively recent addition to our campus. The modular system began in the winter term of 1974, when the math teachers gave an MS 106 class a choice of the type of math study they wanted to learn. The modules cover math topics such as the history of math, logic, ratios, geometry and probab- ility. The students were split accordingly. At the end of five weeks, they met again to select another topic. When the modular system began, the students had to make a passing grade in each of the three five week sessions to earn the normal three credit hours. Now, the five week sessions or modules can be taken independently of one another and one module is equiv- elent to one credit hour. Students use a workbook and the curriculum is set so that the majority of work is accomplished in class, thereby eliminating most home- work. Tests are also kept at a minimum. Keeping up with the growth of our nation, Palm Beach Junior College brings it ' s stud- ents new programs so that they can be better prepared for later life. »J, MARY HIEGEL Math Re-evaluation d A math module in progress Independent study 20