Stuyvesant High School - Indicator Yearbook (New York, NY)

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 Physical Sciences... Physical Sciences Presenting everyone’s choice for “the department most likely to blow up the school” — the Physical Sci- ences Department. Most students first encounter the department while taking one of its two requried courses: Chemistry and Physics. Offering everything from AP Chem to XP, Mr. Tarendash’s department is one of Stuyvesant’s most di- verse. The addition of several new teachers, including Mr. Amoquarm, promises a still wider choice of elec- tives in the future. Our class will have been the last to take Physics as seniors: future ones will take it as either sophomores or juniors. Also, Mr. Baumel and Mr. Kahn now teach Physics and Chemistry (respectively), sacrificing their own time in order to ease the overload of juniors and seniors taking it this year. The department’s most unusual” elective, XP (Ex- perimental Physics) Class is also known as Stuyvesant’s Westinghouse Factory. Scraps of unintelligible conver- sation permeate the room, mixed with pep talks from coach Arnold Bellush. “Does anyone here believe that they can’t win a Westinghouse?” he asks. Clustering over their abstracts, students offer each other advice and encouragement. All were eager to explain the im- pressive projects in progress around them. For the past two years, the Physical Sciences Depart- ment has sponsored a trip to Toronto’s Science Museum — “to bring learning out of the confines of the school,” according to Mr. Tarendash. This highly successful event paved the way for what is now a popular tradition. 25 Jacqueline Thomson Please George, this is Stuyvesant H. S., not Stuyvesant Park. Matthew Litwin The Stuyvesant Waterdown Prin- ciple: Make it easy, no problem! Steve Kramer Don't mess with me. Herbert Goldstein Ask a knowledgeable student. Dalia Bulgaris “If everything else fails, use com-

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r Physical Sciences... Physical Sciences William Richardson Whal do you want lo say under your picture? .. . Are you kidding me?” Paul Garanes •'BY DEFINITION. 24 Marvin Preiss “No thinking; wrong, erase; start again.” Bert Beiderman Harold Gilman, Robert Rodney John Blenninger, This is fairly straightforward .. ■ Lab Technicians

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I Biology... Biology... Biology... Biology Richard Plass, Chairperson “The most difficult friendships to make are those that must end. David Cronen “Biology is the only subject where you can do your work eyeball to eye- ball. Dorothy Suecoff “Yes, essay questions are included.' Anne Ferrara For the sake of humanity, be some- thing other than a surgeon. Suigene Au Kim “Now this is an interesting question. = IH Mel Kane Very often problems solve themselves. John Orna Watch out for Matcha-Gatch! 26