Amarillo High School - La Airosa Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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Lab Improves This is your pilot speaking, says Mrs. Gibson as she adjusts the master controls in the language lab which serves all language classes. 'The purpose in teaching foreign languages in high school is to promote communication between students of different nationalities. The people of other nationalities appreciate you much more if you take the time and trouble to learn their language, instead of expecting them to try to understand what you are saying in your own languagef, said Mrs. Mary Gibson, teacher of first and second year Spanish. Besides Miss Maria Donnell, who teaches first, second, third and fourth year Latin, there are four new language teachers at Amarillo High this year-Mrs. Jane Stephens, who teach- es first and second year Frenchg Mrs. Janet Mueller, who teaches second year Lating Mrs. Collen McKechnie, who teaches second, third, and fourth year Spanishg and Mrs. Gibson. Que? questions junior Debbie Adams as she lis- tens to a tape which will help improve her pronuncia- t10Il Students listen to recordings that serve primarily to perfect the speaking of a language.

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use Sparks fly as another experiment is conducted in a chemistry class. Bobby Mays, senior, watches in the background So that's what's so funny, laughs Grover Barnes as he points out a chemistry equation to Craig Corbin, senior. With the coming of the Space Age , science has become one of the most popular courses of- fered at AHS. It instills in the studentls mind a greater knowledge of the world around him and brings him closer to the wonders of nature. Science courses are offered in biology, chem- istry and physics. Biology is the study of all living things. In- cluded in its study are more specialized courses in botany, zoology, physiology, ecology and bacteriology. Chemistry is a study of the basic make-up of matter. Through experiments and analyses the students get a better knowledge of the com- ponents of different organisms and what chang- es take place in them. Physics is the study of physical phenomena. These are interpreted by theories and laws and the use of math. The head of the Science Department is C. A. Campbell. His counterparts are Grover Barnes, Mrs. Atlanta Kaye and M. L. Roach.

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Foreign Speech French is one of the languages taught at Amarillo High. Bobby Rogers, senior, writes a sentence on the board to illustrate a trans- lation in Miss Stephens' class. The geography and history of Mexico are studied in connectio.. with learning the Spanish language. Ben Ingham, junior, des- ignates a,point on the map to the third year Spanish students in Miss McKechnie's class. w Translating sentences on the board in Miss Marie Donnell's Latin class are Helen Booch,.Malcolm Lang, Ronnie Barnett, and Lizabeth Lewis, all sophomores. 2I