Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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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.

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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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William Moore, Charlotte Reid, Myra McFadden, John Chillcott, Charles Phillips fttatkematicA Prepare for fiuAine and Science Mathematics for the Brookville High School has been planned with the idea of filling the needs of two groups of pupils; those who have ability and interest but have little thought of its future use; and those who desire it as the basis for future work in science and mathematics. Teachers try to relate the work as closely as possible to the normal activities of the social and business world. Mathematics has often been called the Queen of the Sciences and is even more important in our every day lives. Ever since man has wanted to know the number of his livestock, mathematics has grown broader and broader, till it includes every field and business there is. Our high school faculty contains five teachers in the Mathematics department. Mr. Chillcott teaches math to the seventh and eighth grades, and he also coaches football and basketball. Mr. Phillips teaches algebra in the ninth grade and is the ahtletic sponsor for our school. Mr. Moore teaches both algebra and General Math to freshmen. In Senior High, Senior Math is taught by Mrs. Reid. Miss McFadden teaches Algebra II, Plane Geometry, Trigonometry, and advanced Algebra. She is also a sponsor of Tru Blu, Student Council, and a member of the student Loan Fund. John Korb, Roy Bowley, and Tom Aiken stud the complexities of a giant slide rule. 29