Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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Miss Long continues her work, but Jim Hetrick, Horry Sharpe, Tom Moore, Don Shilling, and Harold Swartz are interested in the photographer. Art, Seek A, and tfluAic (jitie PleaAure First on our list of fine arts is the library. As you all know. Miss Mary Long is our librarian. Miss Long went to Hood College and to Clarion State Teachers College. She likes sports, traveling, and reading. Besides all her work in taking care of the books in the library, she is sponsor of the library club, a group of seventeen students that assist her. All in all, Miss Long has very few minutes to herself in a regular school day. Next is the well-known band, which is directed by Mr. Harry Neuhard. Mr. Neuhard went to Penn State University. Besides the band, Mr. Neuhart directs the clarinet quartet and the dance band. If you spend much time at the Y. M. C. A., you'll discover he does too. He works very hard to make our band one of the best, and we are all sure he does his job well. Another group is the Art Department, which is directed by Mr. Charles Park. Mr. Park had his training at Washington and Jefferson. Outside of his art classes, he sponsors the Art Club and the class plays. The Art Club consists of members who are interested in special art work. We all know Mr. Park worked very hard on the class plays, which he made a success. Next and last is the music department directed by Miss Ro-mayne Aumiller, who also went to Penn State. Beside her music classes, she has the choruses and special singing groups. The vocal music department is a success only by much hard work in selecting music, rehearsing groups, and preparing performances for the public. Harry Neuhard, Mary Long, Romayne Aumiller, Charles Park

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ictHquaqe £kill JJj flluaijA CtAential Science may be the future of some of us, and still others may be mathematically inclined; but no matter what we do in life, unless we have a good grasp on the English language, we shall get nowhere. The English Department is composed of seven teachers. Three of these teachers serve the junior high school. They are Mrs. Marguerite Sharpe, Mrs. Mary Ann Jones, and Mrs. Elizabeth Butler. Although some literature is taught in junior high school, the primary work is done in grammar, sentence structure, paragraph writing, and other basic requisites. There are four teachers of English in senior high. Miss Hall spends her day teaching oral conv munication. All sophomores take speech, and many juniors and seniors continue through eleventh and twelfth grade. Miss Black, Miss Patton, and Miss Ellis continue the study of grammar, written communication, and literature. Seated: Marguerite Sharpe, Mary Ann Jones, Elizabeth Butler, Jean Patton. Standing: Violet Ellis, Bertha Black, Mildred Hall.

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Bertha Black, Katheryn Smith, Jean Patton 'Jweigh ianquaqeA fire Practical and Cultural Foreign Languages rank very high in Brookville Schools. French and Latin are the only foreign subjects taught but student participation in these subjects is great. In our French department, we have our capable French teacher. Miss Black, who teaches Francois I and II and is sponsor of Le Cercle Francois. Her aim in teaching French is to get students to learn the fundamentals of the language and then use them in speaking French. She emphasizes that speaking French can be useful and that pronunciation of the words properly is important. In the Latin department, we have Mrs. Smith and Miss Patton as instructors. Mrs. Smith is Guidance Counselor as well as the Latin I and II teacher. Mrs. Smith's problem is to see that the students learn the formation and derivation of Roman words and learn to use them in a sentence. The grammar part of Latin is very important in the first two years of Latin. Miss Patton, who teaches Latin III and IV, spends most of her time in seeing that the students know how to read Latin. Cicero and Virgil are two of the selections she might choose for a student to read. In addition to teaching Junior English and Latin III and IV, Miss Patton is also sponsor of the Argonauts. When speaking of French and Latin, it is known that people can learn to speak French fluently while Latin would be hard to speak. Although many people take French for the purpose of learning to speak it, Latin is not a commonly spoken language; it provides a background meaning for many of today's words.