West Springfield High School - Terrier Yearbook (West Springfield, MA)

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l 1 1 Laurence Goss fleftl is in a serene mood, while Miss Priscilla White confers with student Donald Sena and Kenneth Bruhm conducts a geometry class. Curriculum Stud Concern of Math Group Curriculum development is a principal concern of the Math Department at its regular meetings. Along this line, a new general math course has been designed for the practical use of noncollege- bound students. Mr. Phair is now advising the Math Club and Coaching the Mathletesh Willis Phair, in a familiar teaching stance, considers a problem. KABOVEj Department Chairman Lindzay Varnam takes advantage of the privacy of his office to prepare lessons. At LEFT1 newcomer Miss Merrilyn Brown seems to be bearing well the plight of the traveling teacher. 16

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International communication is easy with the multi-lingual talents of Kenneth Ballard, new teacher of Latin, and French instructors Miss Helen Bailey and Edward Ferriter. Four Years of French Now Offered l l KABO VEQ Miss Dorothy Bugbee fSTANDINGj, department chairman, acquaints Miss Eliesabeth Bohlen, new German teacher, with departmental procedure. KRIGHTQ Angelo Laveglia is seen in a familiar after-school Spanish session. Be- side him is '4Petsy', Murray. Fourth-year French has been added to the courses offered in the Language Department. Supplementing class work, a modern laboratory facilitates the learning of foreign languages including, besides French, Latin, German, and Spanish. Each year Mr. Laveglia selects outstanding stu- dents for membership in the Spanish National Honor Society. 15

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Guiding the science education of West Side students are Science Coordinator Edgar Johnson, H. Vil- roy McVay, Manning Case, Miss Joyce Morrissey, Edward Mala- chowski, and Department Chair- man Norman Beals. Science Dept. Equips New Facilities Y-e-e-S? Hello out therel' To meet the needs of science-minded pupils, two advanced biology courses are now oifered in addition to the science seminar emphasizing elec- tronics and physics. Mr. Beals, who was appointed in the fall to head the department, and his stalf have been concentrating on equipping their expanded facili- ties in the new building. Completing the ten-teacher department are Miss Suzanne Lemieux, John Daggett, Rene Houde and Henry Kozloski. Lab assistants Kenneth Parent and Terry Quinn help their teachers by preparing experiments, but at left are other valuable teaching naidesf, 17