West Essex High School - Milestone Yearbook (North Caldwell, NJ)

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Junior-Senior Division Science Science, which is a requisite for Junior Division students, is, like math, presented as a gen- eral background to familiarize students with the world around them before they embark on more advanced courses in sen- ior high. Through lectures, motion pic- tures, experiments and other scientific studies, students learn to interpret what they see and gain an understanding of sci- ence and its significance to mankind. In the senior high, a student can choose from Biology I, II, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Physical Science and Advanced Science. Although only one year of a science is required, few Knights stop there, as is evident by the bulging enroll- ment in all courses offered. The various classes learn through actual experience. Dis- secting clams and frogs, breed- ing fruit flies in Biology, and executing experiments in Chem- istry are all a part of many Knights' memories. STANDING: Mr William Kozlowski, Mr. Peter Alexander. Mr. Robert Everett. Mr. Oakley Roark, Mr. Richard King. SITTING: Mrs. Charlotte MacDowell, Mr. Rex Morrison. STANDING: Mr. LaRue StelMox. Mr. Frederic Bednarek. SITTING: Mrs. Perkins. 19

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Junior-Senior Division Mathematics STANDING: Mr. Gilbert Adams, Mrs. Maryann Burden. Mrs. Carolyn Canfield. Mr. John Lukasik, Mr. Robert Young. SITTING: Mrs. Esther Zall. Mr. Malcolm Simpson, Mr. Charles Paglieri. Mrs. Anne Faubl. Now, just what is the difference between an acute and an obtuse angle? Math required in the seventh and eighth grades is a general background for the more spe- cialized courses students will take in the senior high. An Algebra 8 course equivalent to Algebra I, is offered to students capable of handling this. It allows these students to com- plete an extra year of math while still in high school. In the Senior Division many math courses are offered — General Math I, II, Algebra I, II, Geometry, Algebra II-Trigo- nometry, Advanced Math and Calculus. The enrollment for math courses has continued to expand, especially in the ad- vanced courses of Advanced Math and Calculus, demonstrat- ing the Knights' ability to meet a challenge. 18

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Languages: SPANISH: Miss Corielle Vogel. Mr. William Price. Mrs. Leslie Harmony (also French). This year something new was added to W.E.H.S. — the Foreign Language Division. The division is coordinated by Dr. Robert Cloos, who supervises in- struction in French, German, Latin, Rus- sian, and Spanish. More than 1,000 stu- dents at West Essex elected to study languages this year. As in the previous lour years, stu- dents are instructed in foreign language skills in the classroom and in the 30- booth language laboratory. Further- more, they have acquired a more thorough knowledge of the culture and geography of the foreign people and their countries. There are modern foreign-language clubs in French, German, and Spanish. Each is designed to give members an even more complete sense of living the language, and knowing the coun- tries where it is spoken.