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Phoenix Back To School SectionSetting Private Institutions For The School YearYork schools share-the facility, with its two libraries, two gyms, two dance studios, four science labs, computer labs, music and art studios, roof-top playground, and theatermeeting house, vividly reflects the diversity and richness of the school%u2019s curriculum. %u201cIn size of classrooms, space for the Arts, sciences and library, Brooklyn Friends has as fine a faclity as any other school I have seen,%u201d commented Gillette.In a few short weeks Brooklyn Friends will again resound with the voices of students, faculty, parents, and administrators all eager to begin the 119th year of learning and growing together in downtown Brooklyn. Ralph Gillette is most eager and happy to be the new leader of this growing and learning process. He will greet the community in September confident that the Brooklyn Friends School will continue to make its special impact on the lives of young people in Brooklyn and New York.Packer Gets Physical WithA New Program In HeightsAmong the many new programs coming in the 1986-87 academic year at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights are a brand-new physics laboratory and a poet-inresidence, says Peter T. Esty, headmaster.Constructed during the summer on a grant from the E. E. Ford Foundation, the new physics lab will provide Packer students with several experiment stations allowing them to work more effectively in teams. Designed by Packer physics teacher Daniel Lapham, the new facility will increase the level of effectiveness of Packer physics students in the Advanced Placement physics courses.In a second new program, Gina Maria Caruso, a published poet who has been working with Packer%u2019s Lower School, has been appointed the school%u2019s first poet-inresidence. Caruso will be expanding her work to include both Lower and Middle School students.' Among her plans will be a published anthology of the poetry of Middle School students to join the annual collection produced by the Lower School. These works will become part of the permanent collections of the Packer libraries. The anthologies are bound and catalogued like any other book and may be checked out by Packer students.In a third area, Packer Plus, the school%u2019s extended day program, will add wordprocessing, dance, soccer and clowning to its wide variety of course offerings including judo, jewelry-making, origami, day %u00adwork, French and other courses.Poly Prep Opens Doors ToLargest Student EnrollmentSummer is ending all too quickly for most Poly Prep Country Day School students.The 900 young people attending the school%u2019s Day Camp, Summer School and Summer Institute are leaving Poly Prep%u2019s 26 acre Bay Ridge campus to make way for returning students in September.When Poly Prep opens for the 1986-87 school year, it will have the largest enrollment in its history as a day school. Joan Wright, the School%u2019s Dean of Faculty, said that this year Poly%u2019s curriculum will seek to foster students%u2019 international awareness and increase intellectual dialogue within the Poly community.International awareness will be emphasized at Poly in two new ways. First, the School will have a three year foreign language requirement for all students beginning the study of a foreign language this fall.An International Visitor Program will bring grantees from the Institute of International Education to the Poly Prep campus. Both the foreign nationals and Poly students will derive great benefit from exchanging ideas and experiences and learning about each other%u2019s countries.This year, too, Poly Prep%u2019s curriculum will foster greater intellectual dialogue within the School community. New ways of teaching to increase students%u2019 writing ability will be investigated and tested in every area of the curriculum.Poly%u2019s unique Senior Plan in which Seniors are examined orally by a faculty panel on a topic which the community has chosen will continue to prepare Seniors for intellectual stresses which they will meet in college.Faculty members Peter Taubman and Donna Cattell-Gordon, who will share the Kastendieck Chair of English, and Sandra Stone, holder of the Livingston Chair of Science, will present scholarly addresses in their respective fields to the Poly community.A new interdisciplinary course %u201cWarfare and Society,%u201d will focus on World War I. Students will discuss the economic, social, cultural, political and technological ramifications of the war in addition to its military aspects.New at Poly this fall is a more advanced physics course to be offered to a select group of seniors; the new course will be an extension of the Advanced Placement course in physics already being offered at the School. The Art Department%u2019s new kiln will enable more students to enter the Ceramics program.Poly Prep sophomores will continue their required community service. If your nonprofit organization would like to have a student worker, please call Susan Heitner, Poly Prep%u2019s Director of Community Service, at (718) 836-9800 for more information.Election Day, November 4, is the date for Poly Prep%u2019s traditional Open House. Prospective students and their parents will be able to tour the school and its campus and meet faculty and students. For information, call Maureen Walsh, Poly Prep%u2019s Director of Admissions, 836-9800.St. Ann%u2019s Expands In SizeAnd In Course OfferingsSaint Ann%u2019s School in Brooklyn Heights will reopen its doors September 10 with more space, rested students, and invigorated faculty %u2014 and entering will be the school%u2019s largest senior class in its 20 year history.The purchase and renovation of the building at 124 Pierrepont Street provides new art studios for high school projects and new classrooms for the Ixiwer School which is expanding by two classes. Gabrielle Howard, Head of the Lower School, says these and the new common room for specialty classes %u201cwill make it very cozy for them over there.%u201dMany students are returning from summer projects that took them far afield. Five traveled with Chinese Teacher Yuming Guo to China for five weeks of study. Zachary Buck, Christian Collins, Jennifer Groves, Amanda Smith, and David vanMeerendonk studied at Beijing Teachers College, toured major Chinese cities, and visited %u201cTownships,%u201d formerly called and run as communes.\they%u2019d ever seen,%u201d says incoming senior Amanda Smith. %u201cWe were warned that people would stare but it was worse than I%u2019d imagined. Many a time I%u2019ve come close to stepping on a child who was standing and staring up at me.%u201d%u201cI can%u2019t believe how much I%u2019ve seen,%u201d continued Smith, who had looked forward to this trip for two years. She and the other students, three of whom are just entering the ninth grade, have studied Chinese for as many as four years.The Deep Springs Teluride Program and Jackson Laboratory also accepted students for the summer.Planned for the coming year are the traditional school trips to France and Spain. Recently new trips have also been implemented in the Classics and Science departments by Barbara Seddon and Ginger Berman, respectively. Seasoned students of Latin will travel to Italy and members of the Marine Biology elective journey to Jamaica for on-site education in these areas.Many faculty have also worked in their fields over the summer. Dance teacher Elise Bernhardt conceived of and presented %u201cLiberty Dances,%u201d a collaborative celebration of dance involving dance companies from both France and America.Vivian Swain, Spanish department, and Barbara Seddon, Classics, took summer seminars under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Swain participated in %u201cOrigins of a Central American Ethos\Classical Lyric%u201d at Harvard. Jim Busby, Music, and Sara Chambers, Science, were two of 50 teachers chosen to receive Joseph Klingenstein Summer Fellowships at Columbia Teachers College. Chambers and Ed Brady, Science, also received grants and studied recombinant DNA at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Further interdisciplinary studies during the course of the year should enrich the school%u2019s curriculum.The incoming senior class of 80 students will be the school%u2019s largest ever, and last year%u2019s senior record bodes well. Some 42 percent of the class of 1986 were National Merit Scholarship Finalists or Commendation Winners. Three students were awarded National Merit Scholarships and one a National Achievement Scholarship. 79% of those eligible won Regents Scholarships andJernpCe Seth Cmetk %u2018JCat&uikTCetfegiatM S c fo o tKindergarten through 10th Grade7 5 t h J U B I L E E Y E A R !83 M a rlb o ro u g h Road, B ro o k ly n W illiam K lo ner, R abbi A R eform T e m pleWelcoming Family Service,Friday Night, September 5thReligious School Opening,Saturday Morning, 10 AMSeptember 13th%u2022 Highly Individualized Weekday Hebrew Instruction%u2022 Hebrew Resource Center%u2022 Outstanding, Innovative Saturday Classes and Sabbath Junior Congregation%u2022 Classes for Older Beginners %u00ab Special Holiday Events%u2022 Bar/Bat Mitzvah PreparationFOR FURTHER INFORMATION/REGISTRATION CALL718-282-1596A Jewish Education For Our TimesThe religious school at Congregation Beth Elohimengages our children in the Jewish quest for knowledge:It is a religious school which upholds the self worth ofthe student through the value of inquiry into Jewishhistory, Jewish tradition, and Jewish ethics. Our childrenare enthusiastic about learning because w e offer a positive atm osphere and effective role model teachers. Ourgeneral Temple program is geared to support the educational effort of the religious school.The main elem ents of the Congregation Beth ElohimReligious School are:* * * 'S unday and W ednesday sessions* * %u2018 *A com m itted and dedicated teaching staff* * * - Full classes forpre-K through high school age* * * 'A rt, music and drama integrated into oureducational program%u2018 * * * A creative and engaging atm osphere* * * \200 Students Are Now Enrolled In OurReligious SchoolFor more information and registration forms please call:Mr. Jeffrey Sirkman, Principal or Rabbi Gerald I. WeiderFor mdre information call the Temple officef768-3814). A Reform congregation, located atGarfield Place and 8th Avenue, Park Slope.Congregation Beth EiohimGadidd Temple C ' m S n 7 V ZBROOKLYNFRIENDSSCHOOLEstablished 1867Pre-Schoolthrough 12th Grade375 Pearl StreetBrooklyn, New York 11201Ralph Gillette, PrincipalCall school for furtherinformation (718) 852-1029August 28, 1986, THE PHOENIX, Page 23