Clifford Lamere in BCHS Yearbook Photos

Clifford Lamere in Yearbook Photos

of Bethlehem Central High School

Delmar, NY

by Clifford Lamere February 2015

Clifford Lamere arrived at Bethlehem Central Junior High School in September 1967 to teach Earth Science and Physical Science. He had previously taught Biology at Burnt Hills - Ballston Lake High School (Saratoga County) for 1 year, and Biology and General Science at New Lebanon Central School (Rensselaer County) for 3 years. During the 1966-67 school year he earned a Masters of Science Teaching at Cornell University, after which he attended a National Science Foundation Summer Institute at Florida State University (1967) to study earth science subjects (Oceonography and Meteorology).

In September 1968 or 1969, ninth grade moved from the Junior High School to the High School (making the former a Middle School). Although he primarily taught Earth Science (non-Regents), in some years his fifth class was Regents Chemistry (once), Non-Regents Physics (two or three times), General Biology (several times), or Excel Earth Science (low level, several times).

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

Shortly after this 1975 photo was taken, Cliff Lamere learned that it had never been intended that he should wear glasses all of the time. A 1962 Springtime job requiring many hours a day looking through a microscope counting pollen grains had caused only temporary eye strain. Nobody had told him, so the glasses became a habit. In the summer of 1975, however, the glasses were lost on a Canadian fishing trip. New glasses were not purchased.

1976

1977

1978

The globe was a special one which showed the volcanic chains on the bottom of the oceans. It was used in the teaching of plate tectonics (continental drift).