Edsel Ford High School - Flight Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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New language labs offer increased freedon 2 Q! M 5-1 I 1 r mx L I li A , J ,l l mu , 3 l r 5 f A ' sa 1? il I I9 French teacher Miss Virginia Waldinger, sponsor ofthe Future Teachers Club and French Club, is at the controls of this seemingly complicated laboratory apparatus. She is preparing to give her French IV class a dictation using the equipment. 2.4 Now can you hear me? is the familiar query of foreign language teachers this year. Problems in learning how to operate new recording machines were responsible for many headaches and some instant lesson changes, but the effort proved worthwhile. Arrred with the equipment in the language laboratory, the teacher can give a student individual help while the rest of the class listens to the tape. With an activated microphone, a student can hear his own voice and compare his answer with the correct an- swer on the tape. Pronunciation and interpretation are also improved. Taped recordings bring many di- versified types of voices into the foreign language classroom and give the student opportunity to com- pare regional accents and dialects. A

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groups ...total society Listening attentively to Mr. William Hackett's interest- ing talk are Joe Suchara, Don Reed, and Steve Petro. Mr. Hackett is tennis coach and sponsor for the Hi-K .rf X L KA' I2 +Main? ...and the Andaman Islanders are located off the coast of... says Mr. Roland Mercier to George Cafego who has probably forgotten the once primitive people studied in the 10B so long ago. Could it be that something is uproariously wrong with this 10B social studies class? Or could Gary Ferguson, Tom Carter, and Gail Cleaver be reacting to a teacher's comment made in the midst of a discussion? All Tuesday-Thursday Human Relations and physical educa- tion classes... Mr. Patrick Daly reads the morning bulletin while his student-teacher, Miss Dianne Joseph, takes attendance. 23

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Using earphones presents some prob- lems as well as offering advantages. Carol Rayment adjusts her headgear so that it will not disarray her hair. 1-... ,K f Q 4 . 4-snug K, , .,,',,- - ,....1s:x- F Librarians are willing and glad to help not only students, but teachers as well, to find books to read for enjoyment and also for reference material. Mrs. Lucille Pethel, one of the librarians, helps Mr. James Ankenbrandt, Latin teacher and sponsor ofthe Latin Club, to locate a bool: on ancient Roman culture. Let's all sing out loud and clear. Put on the record...Uno, dos, tres... Tap, tap, tap... No, no-you're not singing loud enough, amigos...Yes, that's much, much better, says Mr. Edward Skendzel, Russian and Spanish teacher and teacher-advisor of the Span- ish Club, to his Spanish classes each Friday. Mrs. fan Leslie, German teacher, Club advisor, and member of the American Field Service Program, often needs to remind her reluctant students of the German school custom to stand when reciting. However, students do not need to be reminded to deposit books in the new book-return that librarian Miss Elizabeth Lee is emptying. 2.5