St Marys High School - Sceptre Yearbook (South Amboy, NJ)

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The study of numbers, space and measurements The Mathematics Department: Miss Susan Pribish. Sister Teresa McNicholas. Mrs. Hulda Potthoff. Sister Rose Burphardt. and Mrs. Dorothy Holliday. MATHEMATICS Mathematics is . .. declaring a trinomial absolutely not factorable until the teacher goes to the board; wondering whether to prove congruency by SAS, ASA, SAA; graphing a parabola with only two points; informing a teacher that his answer book must be wrong; or looking up the sine of 45° in the log table? The first encounter that SMH’ers have with Math comes in the form of Algebra I, with Frosh figuring the function- ing of functions. With Sophomore year comes Geometry, the study of shapes and sizes. Juniors move on to further study in Algebra II, while seniors choose between Intro- ductory Analysis and Calculus. In addition Mechanical Drawing is offered at the upper three levels. A major break- through came this year with the initiation of an I ndependent Study Program in Analysis, successfully involving 21 se- niors who study and periodically test themselves. Also started this year were Introductory Algebra and Honors Algebra, an accelerated course involving 25 Freshmen. Mrs. Potthoff makes a point in the plane of Calculus to David Wisniewski. 24

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The Language Department: Mrs. Sara Munizaga, Sister Lucia Chuirato. Mr. Robert Walling. Miss Marianne Ropelewski. Sister Lillian Lazarick. and Miss Rhoda Marcus 23

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David St. Amour. Brian Flannery, Susan Birmingham, and John Alvarado demonstrate self-reliance in an Independent Analysis class. Sister Rose proves to a sophomore the truth of the theorem angle A equals angle B Patricia Farrell uses her knowledge of Mathematics to count the pages left in the chapter. 25