Paramus High School - Delphian Yearbook (Paramus, NJ)

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Crafty Chemists Steady now, we’ve got it!” Charles M. Long Biology Physics Photography Club Table Tennis Club David G. Miles Physics Physical Science J.E.T.S. Catherine Mozak Chemistry Junior Ring Committee Ann Nardo Biology 21

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Erudite Ecologists Sanford Schepps Chemistry Science Department Chairman Ideas” Victor J. Amendolara Biology Audio-Visual Aids Club Our Science department is as expansive as the multitude of animals, vegetables, and minerals it encompasses. Amid the perpetual smell of formaldehyde and sore eyes from peering through microscopes, we enter the first lab science course . . . biology, the study of the origin, history, characteristics and habits of plants and animals. Our next science world is full of chemicals and test tubes . . . chemistry, offering the principal theories of matter and elements. Following chemistry, the physics course deals with matter, time, space, light, motion, and the nature of electrical forces and energy. General and specific courses and thought-provoking activities such as these give our students a working knowledge of all the sciences so necessary in the progressive study of today’s New Frontier.” Ideas” is the new science publication, dealing with scientific ideas and philosophy. Most articles are contributed by the advanced science students and the magazine is published by the students. In May the annual science Fair is held, to acquaint students and parents with scientific projects and techniques. Anne Behr Chemistry Future Scientists of America Gervase Castner Biology Audio-Visual Aids Club Weightlifting Club Dolores Comandatore Biology Pre-Med Club 20

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Nimble Numbers • • Raymond Adams Geometry General Math Bowling Club Daniel Jankelunas Algebra Calculus Mathematics Department Chairman Mathematics League Joseph Doyle Geometry Algebra In addition to the development of practical logic, the mathematics department of our school takes the student on a continuing journey through the development of numerical systems. Students are first introduced to the romance of the unknown quantity in freshman algebra. They gain an appreciaiton for the orderly properties of sets and groups as explained in the new math.” If the desire to continue is present, sophomores advance to the study of geometry. Here the relations and rules that go with abstract reasoning are developed in a way which is most gratifying to the success¬ ful student. Algebra II is offered in the junior year, in which further study in the new math” is climaxed by the development of analytic geometry or the graphic inter¬ pretation of geometry. In the senior year the student is offered the most logical phase of mathematics. It is the study of the relations of angles and vectors which often amazes everyone by the simplicity with which previously insoluble” problems may be handled. It is trigonometry. Paralleling the program is an accelerated course taking the more capable and interested students through the more difficult phases. This advanced course is climaxed with a college course in calculus. Marius Nardelli Geometry Algebra Trigonometry Mathematics League Lucette Russo Algebra Trigonometry Club Committee 22