West Babylon High School - Eagle Yearbook (West Babylon, NY)

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ix .lg . . . This year the business department has grown to be one of the largest departments in West Babylon High School. It is con- veniently located all on one floor with glass partitions between each room, thus, stu- dents become adapted to working in large offices. Mr. Dailey, a newcomer to West Babylon's business department, supervises the school store and teaches classes in distributive edu- cation. Also new to the department are Miss Hische and Mrs. Obszarski. Miss Hische taught Office Practice 1, personal typing, and Introduction to Business, while Mrs. Cbszarski taught Business English, Book- keeping 1, and business law. Because college work very often requires the student to be able to type, non-business majors were enabled to take a course in personal typing for one half-year. Another new course offered this year was steno- graph, which trains steno-typists to prepare for careers as court stenographers. School Store in Uperation Mr. Dailey reviews school store prices with Manager Jerry Collom and As- sistant Manager Connie Haeseker. Students in Mrs. West's shorthand and transcription class busily write as she dictates a letter. Members of the competent business staff include - FRONT ROW: Mrs. Marjorie Brinkman chairman and Mrs. Mary Schlosser. SECOND ROW: Mr. Martine Thompson, Miss Doris Hishe, Mrs. Margaret Selleck, Mrs. Valerie Hanlon, Mrs. Marie West, and Mr. Ross Dailey.

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Language Lab Installed French student Virginia Jones re- ceives individual help in the lab from Dr. Tarrant. She and other senior language students serve as lab aids to teachers who are not me- chanically minded. Making good use of the new lan- guage lab, Mr. Elms reads in Ger- man to his students, while they re- peat what he has read. The whole process is recorded on tape, so that later they can listen to themselves and thereby improve their pronunci- ation. Members of the language 'department are Mr. Richard Elms, Dr. Patrick Tar- rant, chairman, and Mr. Frank Mulawka. Missing from the picture is Mr. Frank Figueroa. As the world becomes smaller through improved and swifter means of transportation, the need for conversing and conveying ideas is very great. The language department is therefore utilizing a new oral method of teaching foreign languages, which has re- placed the old system of teaching mainly grammar. Another completely new addition to the language department is the language lab. The lab has thirty individual booths equipped with headphones and tape recorders. By listening to the voices of native speakers and then repeating after them, students improve their pronunciation. Language instructors include: Dr. Tarrant fFrenchj, Mrs. Foley, CFrenchl, Mr. Figueroa CSpanishj, Mrs. Robinson CFrenchl, Mr. Mulawka fLatinj and Mr. Elms CGerman, Frenchj. Mr. Mul- awka, although he is not a new comer to West Babylon, is new to the language department this year. West Babylon is very proud of Dr. Tarrant, chairman of the lan- guage department. After iinishing six years of hard work, he re- ceived his doctorate degree from Columbia University this summer. ,'.- V ,f 1 -g ,. A-ff -.Y L? i 'mf' we , 1 ...fp,n,,,,j,f,g,, ' 'J W V, in X H 1. , f . -' . 'A 5' v ,- f 'rw L, . 9 . ,V - uf, 'QM f ' 1 A : 40 T ' ' x fd fu W if 24 j m fb .X , Y u 'XJ l Y, 'X l if u Tl L' f . , ,Cy r W

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Art department - Mr. Peter Savuto, Chair- man, and Mr. Joseph Bucci. Music department - Mr. Edward Delulio, Chairman, and Miss Shirley LeVan. New, Improved Facilities for . . . Below left - Outstanding senior art students, Ed Ozeck, Don Birch, Bob DeSoto, John Pape, Tony Angelora, and Linda Greene, work on their individual projects in the informal atmosphere of the art department. Right - Barbara Blank and Ida Beard receive helpful suggestions from Mr. Savuto. xx? ff .,. WI X 'B-x f-.,