Williston Northampton School - Log Yearbook (Easthampton, MA)

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FRANK COLSTON DORSEY AB Algebra Assistant Coach of Football, Assistant Coach of Swimming Coach of Lacrosse. NROTC Scholarship Brown University AB 1957 Ofhcer U. S. Navy, 1957-1960, elected to W1ll1ston 1960 Chalk Slade The klathematics teach- ' b ' ers probably use black- men' num ers boards more extensively than any other group of men. De- partment head Mr. Louis Gebhard relies on them regularly for work in geometry and trigonometry. Home- work problems are put on the board for class discussion by either the students or the instructor. Mr. Ceb- hard also replaces the usual quizzes, given by other members of the de- partment, with board work. Geome- try students are asked to prove theo- remsg trigonometry students solve problems in equalities or identities. Cebbyls regular use of the black- board brings with it his time-honored remarks. One day, for example, Bob Borowski's chalk slipped from his hand and shattered on the floor. Cebby's terse comment: t4Well, we'l1 just have to get the boy some rubber crayonf, In this picture Don Saccone works on a geometric proof in lXflr. Frank Dorseyls class. Mr. Dorsey uses blackboards in conferences particu- larly. He can see the studenfs work at a glance, and errors can be erased and work rewritten without un- necessary mess.

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In the fall of 1960 the lX Iathematics Department initiated the accelerated course for boys in their Middler and Upper Middler years. Students study a full course of Algebra II, Plane Geometry, and Advanced hlathematics fSolid Geometry, Trigonometry, and Elementary Calculusj in two years. Ordinarily, the same material is mastered over a three-year period. Boys in the picture study under the direction of Dr. Ralph Phillips. ROBERT BRUCE COUCH, 1950, B.A. Matlzcniatics Assistant Coach of Football, Assistant Coach of Hockey, Assistant Coach of Tennis, Adviser to the Photography Club, Adviser to the Cold Key, Ford Hall House Master. Graduated Wiilliston, 1950, Yale University, 1950-1953, United States Army, 1953-1955, graduated Trinity College, 1957: elected to Williston, 1957. RICHARD R. FRANCIS, B.A. Matlienzatics Coach of Football, Coach of Basketball. Graduated Choate School, 19525 attended Wesleyan University, 1952-19555 United States Army, 1955-1957, graduated Wesleyan University, 1958, elected to Williston, 1958. 28

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Under the leadership of Dean A. L. Hepworth, Williston's History Department offers its students a broad and well balanced appreciation of our rapidly growing civilization, its heritage, and its future. Far Eastern History, Russian Civilization, and Modern European History give students an insight into those places with which we are now most concerned. This year the Johnson Foundation financed a series of lectures on Communist China. In conjunction with this, all history classes spent one week in the study of Red China. These lectures were in addition to the semi-weekly current events talks given to the school by Dean Hepworth. Lectures were also given by the three American History teachers: lvfessrs. Hepworth, Teller, and Lawton. Those lectures on the more interesting sidelights of American History were very interesting and useful to the seniors taking the course. The weekly movies on various aspects of American life, past and present, con- tinued to be sponsored by the History Department for the benefit of the school. Man does not exist for himself alone, and he must learn to live by living together with others and by living like them. To keep the Williston program abreast of the times, and to acquaint the students with the cultures of their fellow human beings, the members of the History Department attend various regional meetings with history teachers from other schools. If a motto for Williston Academy's History Department were required, it would probably be John Donne's statement that 'LNO man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the conti- nent, a part of the manf, Ringleader of the history department is Mr. Archi- bald Hepworth, veteran YVilliston instructor for thirty-six years. Boys are expected to answer his rapid - fire questioning with short, quick replies. The dignified Dean of Students is famous for his curt amazement - Jeek- ers, young mann - when one of his urchins indi- cates inadequate prepa- ration. 30