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12 North Westchester Times New Castle Tribune, Mount Kisco, N.Y., August 29, 1963 At Katonah-Lewisboro Schools Curriculum Tailored To Suit Pupil Needs By JEANNE LaBlonde CROSS RIVER— Five curriculum changes in the Katonah-Lewisboro schools will go into effect this fall ac cording to District Principal Charles T. Helmes. John Jay High School will see the introduction of an advanced biology course and a new Eng lish curriculum for students not planning to attend college. For the first time, selected John Jay students will be participating in the Board of Cooperative Edu cational Services vocation al training program. After a lapse of a few years, Latin will again be offered on the junior high level. Changes will aslo be made in the advanced place ment program which is adjust ed each year to meet the abili ties of the students it serves. The advanced biology course, Dr. Helmes explained, is one of two advanced sections devis ed by the biological science committee of the National Science Foundation. At John Jay what is called the \green program\ will be followed. Although a similar advanced program in physics will enter its fourth year this fall, only the regular regents course in biology has been available until now. Past performance and teacher evaluatilns will deter mine a student's eligibility for the course. •Everyday' English \This summer the English de partment chairman and one oth er English teacher prepared a new English curriculum through the eleventh grade for those students who are not college bound,\ Dr. Helmes said. Here the emphasis will be on more practical everyday English, in cluding literature study. The new curriclum will cover grades 9, 10 and 11 and will be revised next year for grade 12. \We're trying to have a curri culum that will hold children in school,\ Dr. Helmes explain ed. \Grades 10 and 11 are the critical period for dropouts and for this reason the curriculum must be practical.\ To provide for the 15 to 20 per cent of John Jay students not pursuing a higher education, a, good general education must be offered and not merely a \weak and watered • down program,\ Dr. Helmes said. Ten students will take advantage of the BOCES vocational training ser vices. Working in cooperation with BOCES in Yorktown, this is the first year John Jay has participated in the vocational training end of the program. Dr. Helmes emphasized that the courses these students take will not be totally unrelated to the training they receive. Nine Period Day This year Latin, as well as Spanish and French, will be available to seventh and eighth grade students. The crowded junior high curriculum neces sitated dropping it at this level a few years ago, explained Dr. ADVERTISEMENT Big 4-inch Honey Buns 5%* each With your freezer it is easy to buy 6 packages of Honey Buns at a time at Seabergh's in White Plains. Then you have on hand sweet buns that are like freshly baked. They are buns that will please the most famished teen ager, buns that are 4 inches across and rich with shortening, sugar, honey, and eggs. You get 8 of these delicious big Honey Buns in a sealed poly bag and 6 bags in a box for $2.76. Sea bergh's also have wonderful Pe can Rolls baked and fresh-fro zen in Georgia, 12 Pecan Twirls in a box for 59c. Also restaurant- sized Pies for big families, deep 10-inch Pies ready to bake, 79c . . . Apple, Peach, Coconut-Cus tard. You can drive to Sea bergh's and buy as little or as much as you wish. Or you can get free delivery on an order as small as $35. Phone for free 20- page Price List . . . WH 8-6377. Or stop in or write: Seabergh's, 200 Westchester Ave., White Plains. North Salem Enrollment Up20P.C. NORTH SALEM— The North Salem schools an ticipate an enrollment almost 20 per cent higher than last Sep tember's 649 students, Dr. Thay er Wade, district principal, re ported at last week?s meeting of the Board of Education. Dr. Wade also, announced a meeting of all teachers new to the system at 1 pjh. Wednesday at the high school, to familiarize them with the upique types of instruction offered in North Sal em schools. A meeting of?all teachers is scheduled for S£pt. 3 at 10 a.m. at the high school. Engineer Says Yes NEARING COMPLETION in the Katonah - Lewisboro school district is the new In crease Miller School. Origin ally scheduled for turnover to the district recently, work men are putting finishing touches on gym, corridors and offices. Classrooms are ready and waiting for the pupils but school officials devised a plan to use the Katonah elemen tary school if Increase Miller is not ready.—Staff Photo by Jeff Harrell. Helmes, but the nine-period day now in its third year, has given the needed flexibility to the pro gram. Dr. Hlemes pointed out that students who begin a lan guage in the seventh or eighth grade will find it much easier to fit a second language into their curriculum later on. The advanced placement pro gram at John Jay changes con stantly according to the needs of the students and the number who can profit from it. Each graduating class is different, and the program is designed each year for those it serves. English, math, history, chemis try and French have been in cluded in John Jay's program since it was first used. \Children are more advanced today in most of their work and more ready to take an inten sive program,\ Dr. Helmes said. \Curriculums have never been more advanced than they are now. Many courses in high school today are on the same level that parents received in college.\ Dr. Helmes cited science and history courses as examples. It is the job of the faculty to recognize the alertness of stu dents today and construct ap propriate courses, Dr. Helmes said. \It is a serious challenge to the teacher to keep up with the students.\ Religious School Set Bv Beth Am YORKTOWN HEIGHTS— Temple Beth Am's newly formed religious school will be gin classes Sunday, Sept. 29. Children five years or older will be accepted for enrollment. Registration will take place at the Masonic Hall on Sept. 5 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. and on Sept. 9 from 10 to 12 a.m. Pre - school classes will be held at various times during the year,. For further information contact Harvey Scherr, 173 Cur ry St. FINISHING TOUCHES are applied to classroom at In crease Miller School in Ka tonah - Lewisboro district by painter Peter DeAugustine. School officials are holding their breaths as workmen race the school calendar to have the building ready for pupils. —Staff Photo by Jeff Harrell. For Yorktown Pupils Closed Circuit TV, IBM Training Slated A heavy woman should wear smooth-but not clingy - fabrics, dark colors, conservative prints and vertical stripes. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS- TWO major curriculum addi tions will greet Yorktown Heights youngsters when school opens. On the elementary school lev el, youngsters will be benefit ing from the advantages of a closed circuit television sys tem. Young ladies planning a career in secretarial skills will get valuable experience through a program being offered by the Mohansic System Laboratory of International Business Machines Corp. The on-the-job training exper ience offered by IBM will be open to six students to be rec ommended by Yorktown teach ers. Beginning the school year, the students will start work at the Mohansic laboratory on a part-time basis after school is closed for the day. At the laboratory, the young secretaries will be assigned var ious clerical duties including fil ing, taking dictation, transcrib ing, and telephone usage. The work assignments will be rotat ed through the different depart ments at IBM Mohansic so the I participating students may at tain broad, diversified experi ence. No Obligation IBM officials are quick to de clare that participation in the special program in no way im plies permanent employment of the individual by IBM in the fu ture. In addition the temporary employment arrangement may be terminated at any time by the student, IBM, or high school authorities. In Yorktown's Elemen tary schools, teachers will be able to present instruction to large groups of children through the use of a closed circuit TV system. The new equipment will enable school administrators to originate instructional programs within the school building. The talents of individual teachers, specializing in various areas, will be better utilized by the TV system. Slated for programming on TV are science lessons to be taught by science teacher Mrs. Mary Robinson. She will present an introductory lesson, an inter mediate lesson and a summary lesson. Is there any newer, fresher, juicier, more delicious way to serve apples than this? no. Driving too long at a stretch may shorten • the distance be tween you and an accident. Fa tigue and dullness quickly over take drivers on throughways, ac cording to the Institute for Safer Living. When driving for some distance at higher speeds, be sure to make frequent rest stops. Get out, stretch, wash up, have some coffee, or take a nap. The Treasury's Weekly Stamp Day plan, coupled -with class room studies in money manage ment for young citizens, is of fered in thousands* of schools throughout the nation, U. S. Savings Stamps are^also on sale at Post offices. CAROL GARRISON will teach at the Crompond School in Yorktown Heights. She is a 1963 graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta with a bachelor of science degree and permanent teaching certificate. At college she was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, national honor socie ty; Bell and Dragon, national leadership honor society; the women's glee club and Lamb da Nu Omega, social sorority. HARVEY KLEINMAN will oe senior high school guidance counselor for grades 9, 10 and 34. at Yorktown High School. He has a B.S. degree from New York University, 1957, arid an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia, 1962. He is studying toward the profes sional diploma in guidance and student personnel. Mr. Kleinman has taught English in junior high school at New York City for one year, at\ high school in Tuckahoe for three years and was senior high school guidance counse lor at Fallsburgh, N.Y. Cen tral High School last year. MRS. MARY M. FISCHER will teach Social studies in the Junior High School at Lake land, Lake Mohegan. Mrs. history from Wellesley College, Mass. in 1960, and her M.A. in the teaching of social stu dies in secondary schools from Teachers College, Columbia. She has taught as a substitute teacher in the Shaker Heights, Ohio, public schools and as nursery school teacher this past year at the Haynie School Fayetteville, N.C Sinking Land With Us To Stay? Westchester might just as well 1 get used to \sinking land con ditions\ such as the North White Plains Shopping Center with which the North Castle Town Board is currently concerned, a consulting engineer, veteran of 40 years in his fied, said to day. \Westchester is now a highly built - up area,\ explains Harold S. Woodward of 138 Rockland Ave., Larchmont, partner in the firm of Seelye, Stevenson, Value and Knecht, which North Castle Supervisor John A. Lombardi called in for an opinion on the shopping center problem. \Solid land, which makes major con struction a relatively easy engi neering problem is at a premi um throughout the county to day,\ he said. Westchester might as well get used to complex engineering problems, the consulting engi neer continued, because for the most part what was once \spare\ land is now being used. Furthermore, Westchester lies atop a sloping rock shelf, angl ing downward towards New York City, and this also poses engineering problems. As a re sult, he explained, there are outcroppings of rock near the land surface \whose presence must be suspected, so to speak, by the engineer.\ Pre-Study Lacking \Primarily Mr. Woodward continued, \these problems arise because the* builder never seems to obtain enough information before buying his land for his project.\ The land bought, the engineer said, often is residue land, per haps swampy underneath, and pilings are not driven \deep enough to insure a firm base for the superstructure. According to a recent Treas ury report, U. S. Savings Stamps —bought mostly by children — are now selling at the rate of approximately $18 million worth per year. t INC. • DRIVEWAYS • ROADS • PARKING AREAS • EXCAVATING • ROAD GRAVEL • UNDSCAPING • GRADING • BLACK TOP FILL & TOP SOIL FOR SALE ' < v BOX 632 MOunt Kisco 6-6828 - • • YOUR GRISTEDE'S SERVICE MARKET IN MT. KISCO CARRIES A COMPLETE VARIETY OF S. S. PIERCE QUALITY FOODS Cook Out, Cook Out, WHEREVER You Are! Happy holiday ahead! 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