Chamberlain High School - Totem Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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'MON CHERE AMI, writes Sully Wood as she composes u letter to her French pen-pal. Students taking French have on avid interest in writing to their pen-pulls. S tt tg ' 1 -it V is X a I Q! I YA NE ZNAYOU, sing Julie Cooper, Paul Smuill, and Kathy Livsey, dur- ing Russian class. It seems as if no one understands them! FIRST STEP TO UNDERSTANDING OTHERS IS KNOWING THEIR LANGUAGE IN THIS SHRINKING world of ours, it daily becomes necessary for one people to know more about another. By the study of others' languages, we learn more of them, and even gain appreciation and deeper understanding for our own culture as well as theirs. Chamberlains Language Department of-lets just about the most varied courses of any school in the state. Latin, with its agelessness, offers students, not a dead language, but one very much alive. Of our own vocabulary, more than 60 per cent is based on the Roman language. Not only through ours, but also through many Romance languages, Latin still lives today. Spanish, with its color, brings rich and often exciting life to CHS students. We in Tampa, can realize the importance of this language even more because of the Spanish ancestry claimed by some of our Tampans. After a thorough foundation in Spanish I rt FQ 'Q . L. ' t. '. . MRS. ALMA BENSON MRS- VERTA COX and ll, students are offered a Spanish III class in which the entire year is devoted to conversing in Spanish only. French, with its beauty and diplomacy, transmits to those who study it the eloquence of expression, and vivacious quality of speech that is always associated with it. French, the language of diplomacy can be used in many ways-even in modern day science. Something new has been added to the Language Department at CHS-a course in Russian. The class of ambitious boys and girls who have a keen desire to try to understand the amazing people of that vast nation have learned a new vocabulary, practiced sing- ing folk songs, and read classic short stories in Russian. They en- joyed a brief incident of conversation with the wife of Russian representative to the United Nations, Madam Kusnetsova. if., MR. FRANK FERNANDEZ MRS. JOAN HERNANDEZ MRS. ELIZABETH STONE

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HT' W. f-. -s.- THE COLONIAL DIARY of James Essex is one of the many projects undertaken by Violet Hicks in her eleventh grade English class. CHANGING THE FLAG on the typical Elizabethan theater to announce the com'ng of Macbeth is Roy Nelms. FUTURE TEACHERS OE AMERICA LEARN TO TEACH WHILE THEY ARE TAUGHT DONT THROW ERASERSV' pleads a future teacher in the midst of chaos, during her first attempt to substitute teach a pri- mary grade. Although the atmosphere may be boisterous at times, potential recruits of the teaching profession are encouraged by Mrs. Thelma McDonald, and Mrs. Lallie Godschalk, co-sponsors of the Future Teachers, to take advantage of such an opportunity to gain prohtable experience and increase their interest in the teach- ing vocation. Projects undertaken are the selling of doughnuts to raise money for a scholarship for a worthy F.T.A. member, and the presentation of an apple to each CHS teacher during National Education Week. Members must maintain a C average and an interest in the teaching Held in order to sustain membership. The club also pre- sents annually, an award denoting outstanding devotion and service in the Held of teaching to a faculty member as 'Teacher of the Year. FUTURE TEACHERS-Front row: Mrs, Thelma McDonald, Saundra DeAmbrose, Merilee O'Berry, Alberta Davidson, Karen Krebs, Sue Knopke, Bonnie Jensen, Jullia Cooper, Sara Abbott, Donna Blanton, Mrs. L. M. Godschalk. Second row: Judy Bowman, Janice Smith, Linda Ann Gilchrist, Rosalyn Knight, Pam McCollister, Peggy Netterfield, Lynne Holland, Sherry Higgins, Liana Vande-Spiegle, Sue Holt, Sally Holt. Third row: Lillian White, Frances Hannaway, Mary Louise Falcon, Laura Leclford, Sharon Brad- ford, Carol Sue Moore, Margaret Burlington, Sharon Ann Bailey, Sally Glomp, Susan Vierday, Virginia Horton, Doris Mickler. Fourth row: Diane McBride, Sharon Lee Myers, Terry Hunter, Edith Ann Mayo, Mary McCreary, Heide Brose, Lynn Crowe, Jean Ann Genau, Mary Marrone, Hillary Ann Davies, Sandra Johnson. Fifth row: Sue Bearss, Linda Reils, Ann Davids, Bonnie Behrman, Lana Lawrence, Faye Littell, Sharon Howell, Carolyn Volllrath, Ann White, Virginia Dowling, JoAnn Lavender, Sandy Hazelton. Sixth row: JoAnna Flinn, Karen Seith, Gertie Scarcella, Shirley West, Beth Joeb, Gretchen Graves, Diane Miller, Nancy McGoan, Charlene Messier, Maureen Prieste r.

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. , . ,c 5 figs 397 THREE! DO I HEAR FOUR? shouts the auciioneer as he sells another slave at the Roman Banquet sponsored by the Latin Club. THE VOICE OF THE GRAPEVINE, known to the Latin students as Vox Uvae Vifis, is being examined by Linda Cline and Lillian White. SOCIETAS LATINA GAINS RICHER APPRECIATION EOR ROMAN CULTURE GOING, GOING, GONE! Sold! Another slave is auctioned off at forthcoming Latin Forum, and annual convention with contests and the Roman Banquet, an annual event sponsored by the Latin Club. scholarship opportunities. Membership eligibility is determined by a prerequisite course in To further cultural education, a trip to the Sarasota Ringling Att Latin and an expressed interest in the romance language. Museum, as well as other activities to expand cultural appreciation, Under the co-sponsorship of Mrs. Alma Benson and Mrs. Verta highlight each year, Cox, members of the Latina Societasn prepare diligently for the LATINAS SOCIETAS-Fronf row: Rosemary Thomas, Windellla Moll, Judy Chambers, Dotti Tipton, Dean Miller, Betty Schell, Bonnie Parry. Second row: Ann Carlton, Linda Queen, Libby Lee, Alice Ann Beniomin, Carol Loucks, Chris Boyd, Judy Edmondson, Rosalyn Knight. Third row: Lloyd Newcity, Jackie Droeger, Robin Hoerer, Mari Lynn De Friese, Victoria Neky, Judith Kennard, Julie Thol'l, Pam Davies, Barbara Heflelfinger. Fourth row: Tom Dunlop, Vincent Castellano, Bill Thompson, Paul French, William Bailie, David Bolling, Eric Lowery, Martha Williams, Faith Stone. Fifth row: Clayton Merriett, Paul R. Taylor, Gerald Sage, Preston Odom, Dave Marshall, Don Loucks, Kathy Fisher, Fredda Crisp, Willis Kitchen. l MW4ZW.HMQZ1l5.5WMl ' A QW i 1 + WMM