Amnesty Club
Advisors: Ms. Katz, Ms. Bryan
The Amnesty Club is a local chapter of Amnesty International; a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
Art Club
Advisor: Ms. Gomes-Vance
The Art Club meets weekly and provides inspiration and opportunity for students to work on individual and group art projects. Club activities include banner and mural painting, competitions, field trips and exhibitions. We work cooperatively with other clubs to provide services to the school and community.
Astronomy Club
Advisor: Mr. Alvarez
The purpose of this club is to observe the wonders of the solar system and universe with our own eyes through large aperture telescopes. This club is open to all students, parents and siblings at Salk.
Athletes for a Better Community (ABC)
Advisor: TBA
Athletes for a Better Community is a service club, which affords school athletes the opportunity to assist in food, and toy drives, as well as other volunteer activities to benefit our community.
Broadcast Club
Advisors: Mr. Causeman and Mr. Farney
The MacArthur Broadcast Club gives students the opportunity to become involved in all aspects of creating news broadcasts that cover important events at MacArthur. These broadcasts are streamed on the Levittown website to allow people from all over the world to see our clubs work. Students take on the responsibility of capturing video footage, taking pictures, editing video clips, filming broadcasts and delivering the news.
Chess Club
Advisor: Mr. Levy
The Chess Club welcomes beginner as well as skilled players to learn, play and strategize one of the world's oldest and most popular board games. We are an "in-house" program now, but hope for the possibility of challenging other schools to compete in the future.
Color Guard
Advisor: Ms. Graziose
The objective of this club is to enhance the performance of the marching band with flag routines, rings, ribbons, dancing and sabers.
DECA
Advisors:Ms. DiPietro and Mr. Fazzolari
The objective of DECA is to provide students with an interest in business and marketing, an opportunity to learn about the business industry and participate in business related competitions.
Drama Club
Advisor: Ms. Bryan-Porcella
The Drama Club seeks students interested in all aspects of dramatic production to rehearse and perform fully staged theatre pieces.
Environmental Awareness
Advisor: Mr. Friedman
The purpose of this club is to expose students to the world around them. Students who are in this club will do a number of experiments involving ground water and water pollution.
Garden Club
Advisor: Mrs. DiStefano
Members of the Garden Club dedicate themselves to beautifying our school grounds with a variety of plants. Students, with or without "green thumbs" are welcome to join us as we learn about the physical and aesthetic properties of plants.
International Club
Advisors: Ms. Cerritos
The objective of this club is to enrich the knowledge of cultures and languages of various nationalities.
Junior Mathletes
Advisor: Ms. Hoeffner
The objective of this club is to prepare the students to participate in a Math competition.
Key Club
Advisors: Ms. Gomes, Ms. Burns
The purpose of this club is to do community service within MacArthur High School as well as the surrounding community. This club is open to all students.
Lighting and Sound
Advisor: TBA
This club meets on a weekly basis to plan for upcoming events, which includes the use of lighting and sound. Alternate weeks are used to train younger members on new equipment.
Math Club
Advisor: Mr. Pulice
The Math club invites students to actively engage in friendly competition as they work in teams to solve mathematical problems.
Model Congress
Advisors: Ms. Reynolds
Model Congress provides students with the opportunity to study U.S. Congress, politics, and formal debate. Members learn the skills of identifying current issues, putting ideas into writing, and presenting concerns in an open forum.
Musical Production
Advisor: Ms. Hardison
The Musical Production Club is the core of MacArthur's four musical theatre productions. Students who enjoy all aspects of the performing arts (singing, dancing, acting) are encouraged to join us as we learn our craft and rehearse our lines for each spectacular show.
National Honor Society
Advisor: L. Spinnato
The objective of this club is to promote the criteria of the National Honor Society. Scholarship, leadership, service, character; to enhance academic excellence and to provide service to the school and to the community.
Newspaper Club
Advisor: TBA
The Newspaper Club seeks writers, reporters, editors and photographers to develop, create, publish and present a student produced newspaper. The Sentry highlights school news, world and national events, entertainment issues pertaining to the students, opinions and school sports.
Peer Leaders
Advisors: Ms.Reynolds, Ms. Roddini
Peer Leaders is a service club aimed to ease the transition for 9th graders from middle school to high school.
Peer Leaders are selected through a rigorous application process and are expected to make a yearlong commitment to the club's activities.
Physical Fitness
Advisor: Mr. Farney (a.m.) Mr. Burke (p.m.)
The Physical Fitness Club provides a safe, supervised facility in which MacArthur students can weight train.
Robotics Club
Robotics Club
Advisor: Mr. A. Li Volsi
The Robotics Club is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.
The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Techology) Robotics Competition challenges teams of young people and their mentors to solve a common problem in a six-week timeframe using a standard "kit of parts" and a common set of rules. Teams build robots from the parts and enter them in competitions designed by Dean Kamen, Dr. Woodie Flowers, and a committee of engineers and other professionals.
Scenic Art
Advisor: Mr. Spainer
The Scenic Art Club designs, builds, and creates the sets and props for the dramatic and musical productions at MacArthur.
School Store
Advisors: Mr. Leahy, Mrs. Savage
The club allows students to work in a retail environment and gain valuable people skills. Students take care of the school store's inventory, ordering, storing, stocking and selling merchandise.
Science Olympiads
Advisors: Mr. Donovan, Ms. Montauk, Mr. Tompkins
The objective of this club is to prepare the students to participate in the Science Olympiad competition, which is traditionally held at Bishop Kellenberg.
Senior Mathletes
Advisor: Mr. Cambria
The objective of this club is to compete against other member teams from Nassau County in after school meets while attempting to solve challenging math problems.
Technology Club
Advisor: Mr. Spainer
This club provides students with the opportunity to practice and update their technology skills. Club meetings will also present insights into this rapidly advancing field.
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Advisor: Mr. Rufa
The Tri-M Music Honor Society recognizes, through a highly competitive application process, MacArthur music students for their musical ability, academic excellence, school involvement and community service.
Winter Wind Ensemble
Advisor: Mr. Romano
The ensemble is composed of MacArthur students who play woodwind instruments. Participation is open to all students in MacArthur. The club offers students the unique performance opportunity of playing chamber music in a small group setting.
Yearbook
Advisor: Ms. Gomes-Vance, Bryan-Porcella
Booster Order Form
Download the booster form here.
Students would assist in designing the 2006 MacArthur High School's yearbook. Members of this club will be responsible for gathering all of the necessary information. Furthermore, students will gain insight to all phases of desktop publishing and computer graphics.
Yearbook order and booster forms are being mailed home and can be downloaded here.
Boosters payments should be made by check and made out to General Douglas MacArthur High School. Somewhere on the check, be sure to mention the student's name and grade, and that this is a booster order.
When ordering a yearbook, one can either pay by check, mentioning the same information, or by credit card."
You may also purchase Yearbooks online by visiting Jostens Online.
Young Composer's Club
Advisor: Mr. Romano
The Young Composer's Club is an organization open to all students with an interest in composing music. The club is designed to provide a venue for the exploration of various aspects of being a professional composer as well as creating a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst students who share a common interest.
