Paramus High School - Delphian Yearbook (Paramus, NJ)

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Our Superintendents Bravo! Mr. Paul A. Shelly Superintendent of Schools To the Graduating Class of 1975! With your graduation from high school you are completing a jour¬ ney. Hopefully, your education has meant much more to you than the completion of a certain number of years or the accumulation of a certain number of credits. I hope that you have attained some insight into yourself — how ycu learn, what your goals and aspirations are, what your strengths and weaknesses are. I hope that you have come to recognize that learning is a life-time activity and that while there are many resources available to help you, such as colleges, libraries and textbooks, the greatest resource you have at your disposal is within you. It is you yourself. This becomes so clear in the learning process. It is almost impossible to teach someone something he does not want to learn. It is equally impossible to stop him from learning if he really wants to learn. The desire for learning, if it is real, must come from within. As T.S. Elliott has so aptly expressed it: The only real journey is the inward journey. The inward journey , I believe, is the journey toward understanding ourselves. Each of us is a bundle of emotions, aspirations, wants and needs. Each of us must learn through self-examination how we can achieve self-fulfillment. Others can help us and often will, but the real journey must start within ourselves. I wish each of you success and fulfillment. Paul A. Shelly Superintendent of Schools Dr. Benjamin Barbarosh Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Services In Memoriam BACK ROW: Mr. G. Thomas Occhipinti, Psychologist; Mrs. Gloria Salnick, Secretary, Mrs. Phyllis Kordell, Secretary; Mrs. Elsie Rock, Secretary; Mrs. Ethel Reimer, Secretary; Mr. Michael Carluccio, Psychologist; Mrs. Judith Feltman, Psychologist; Mr. Jay Melcer, Social Worker; Mr. Gary Borer, Psychologist. FRONT ROW: Dr. Benjamin Barbarosh, Assistant Superintendent; Miss Phyllis Eisenberg, Social Worker; Mrs. Marie Parnass, Psychologist; Mr. Richard Pekmezian, Learning Disabilities Teacher-Consultant. Set up to help the individual student cope with the various problems which face him, the Child Study Team works on several levels; academic, social, and emotional. Its goals are to help each student attain the highest level he can in intellectual achievement, to work as effectively as possible with his teachers and classmates, and to develop a sense of value and integrity about himself and about his life. Towards these ends, the services of the psychologists, social workers, and learning disability teacher-consultants are directed, sometimes singly, sometimes in conjunction with one another. Work with school personnel, family, and community agencies may help to resolve the difficulties. Special programs may be designed and frequent revisions may be made in an attempt to meet the ongoing needs of the students. Whatever the source of the student ' s difficulties, the Child Study Team members attempt to deal with them on a one-to-one basis, affording to each of its st udents not only the opportunity for educational achievement, but for optimal satisfactions and gratifications during the all-important school years. 10

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Higher Horizons! Mr. John N. Montemurro Mr. Harvey Schaffer Immediate Past President President of the Board of Education of the Board of Education Mr. Wesley Van Pelt School Business Administration Secretary Mr. Lincoln Koenig Director of Maintenance 9 Mr. Ralph Mele Administrative Assistant Personnel and Administrative Services » ■

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Our Two Specialists Well deserved applause is hereby given to Mr. John J. LeRose, Vice-Principal of Paramus High School in charge of Computer Services. In a new position Mr. LeRose ' s energies are employed in coordinating all the electronic data processing which the high school requires. This job includes all course scheduling for high school students, report and programming and printing, and the scheduling of all daily transportation to and from all Paramus schools. All data processing is accomplished with the aid of a computer located in the Educational Development Center of the Board of Education. At the beginning of the 1973-1974 school year, Mr. LeRose vacated his House Two office and established himself in the Board of Education, where he was in charge of the entire Paramus School System Budget. At present, Mr. LeRose is in charge of all school related material which goes through the computer. Many plans are being born in Mr. LeRose ' s office. For instance, the report card system has been revised in a manner which elimi¬ nated time consuming envelope stuffing by using a carbon-paper system enabling the printing of the card right through the en¬ velope. In addition to processing report cards for every high school student, those of the students in eighth and ninth grades will soon be processed in this manner. Extensive and innovative ideas coping with the dilemmas of a continually growing school system are formulated in Mr. LeRose ' s department. Expansion of the Paramus School System brings with it many new and challenging problems. We can all remain confident knowing that Mr. LeRose is there to manipulate these difficulties. We wish him many years of success and happiness in this position within the Paramus School System. In his second year as Director of Research, Evaluation and Plan¬ ning, Mr. Joseph P. McDonough has retained the policy of student individuality beyond comparison to metropolitan and national norms. In the area of Research, Mr. McDonough has been instrumental in the evolution of test results from simply a general comparison, to separate individual ones. Each test is accompanied not only with a set of corrections, but the subject area associated with it. This is sent to the teacher who is able to help the student where he is weak. Though only in use for two years, the procedure is revolutionary and ideal, one long awaited by both teacher and student. It is the hope of Mr. McDonough and Superintendant of Schools Paul Shelly, that this will utilize any testing program and help the individual insti¬ tutions ' major approach and at the same time reshape the form of the test results to be helpful to the students. Evaluation and Planning come together in Mr. McDonough ' s consideration of new courses. When a staff member, teacher or administrator, formulates the basic subject matter outline for a new course, and it is submitted to the Curriculum Council, they in turn give it to Mr. McDonough who researches it against any previous course already instituted, and analyzes both its strong and weak points. It must offer something new, never before given. Successful courses to come out of Mr. McDonough ' s office, and the Council ' s chambers, are Computer Science, Creative Living, in the Junior High Schools, modifications in the Journalism Course, Man-Made World, Philosophy, and other Mini-Courses. In the office of Mr. Joseph P. McDonough, the atmosphere is amicable. He possesses a sincere liking for young people and urges any Triple-E students wishing to learn about office procedures, national resources and utilities, to come, and work there. Our sincerest hope, is that as he has done in the past, so will he do in the future. Mr. John J. LeRose Vice-Principal Computer Services