Silver Lake Regional High School - Torch Yearbook (Kingston, MA)

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SCIENCE Mr, D. Atwood Science at Silver Lake embraces many fields of study, including biology, earth science physics, chemistry and so on. Laboratory facilities enable students to learn by means of actual experience. The department serves to prepare some students for college work in a technology-oriented country; but it also serves to introduce many students to the dis- coveries made by man which have enabled him to use the physical elements of his world to amazing advantage and disadvantage; and to pose students with the problem of elevating the former and eliminating the latter. Mr. Heufelder Mrs. McCulloch Mr. Lescarbeaux Mr. Coakley Mr. Markee Mr. Daunheimer

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The English department strives to give each graduate a feeling for English, a love of words, written and spoken, a sensitivity to ideas, and a style of his own. The English department exists to cultivate an awareness of and a gift of expression in each student at Silver Lake. Courses in American, English, and world literature are offered and selections from the classics, the modern novel, the nar- rative poem, Shakesperian drama and biography are introduced. Me- chanical skills, vocabulary building, and grammar drills are empha- sized in conjunction with the literature which supplies ideas for written composition and discussions. If, at the end of four years at Silver Lake, a young person feels at home in his native tongue, knows that which is good, and cares enough to be critical of what he writes, reads, sees, and says, that graduate will not fail the school. Miss Stallings Mr. Wallace Weeks Mrs. Jo- Anne Howe Mrs. Jean Goetz Mr. Jack McCormick

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ART AND MUSIC Mr. Carroll, art Mr. Wallace, music ART AND MUSIC are two fields of study which, while not opposed to scientific or mathematical considerations, approach thought and cre- ativity from a different vantage point. Both music and art are disci- plines, they do require learning, understanding, and experience. Abstract and intuitive thinking are required in the study of these subjects; but they are much related to math and science in that they show insight into order and relationship. . .the terms harmony and composition are equally applicable to a painting or a piece of music. Students at Silver Lake who enroll in these courses have an oppor- tunity not only to develop their own creative talents, but also to learn, to appreciate and respect the talents of their classmates. Through concerts and band performances, and through exhibitions in the art room and in display cases in the school, the results of the work of art and music students are made available to the entire school. . .