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

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Language Language lab’ facilitates learning new 'tongues’ Parlez-vous fruncais? Sprechen Sie Dattsch? Hubla usted apanol? Do you speak a foreign language? If you do, one of the above modern foreign languages (French, German, or Span- ish) should be familar. Or perhaps you speak Russian or Latin. Ability to speak a foreign language fluently is what made two new teachers welcome additions to the foreign language department this year: Mrs. Virginia Weidemann was the Latin mentor, and Miss Lotte Echelle was the German teacher. Mrs. Weidemann, Miss Echelle and the rest of the language department had the advantage this year of using new audio equipment in the language lab. A short-wave radio that receives foreign programs was one of the new additions. Another feature added was a series of tape recordings fea- turing native speakers. Perhaps the new laboratory equipment will encourage even more students to elect a foreign language next year; afterall, what other class has equipment that speaks to you? ’ Selecting the nght button to push n not always an easy decision. Miss Virginia Wald inger bos made her choice and maybe the tape will start. LEFT: Kathy Garah, trying to do two things at once, crams for a test and listens to a tape. RIGHT: Pat Hoehn, devoting her attention mtirely to Latm. prefers to do one thmg at a time. Staff and Academic Life 27

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V Afttr having ban crowned Queen for a day by Pat Hogan- son, Diane Wallace reigns in a French class skit. 26 Staff and Academic Life

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V Robert Cullingford needs some help to make sure he solders the metal correctly on his art project. David Ray holds the metal while Frank Bolosh checks the alignment. There's not going to be enough room in this showcase for all these things. lays Miss Marion Carson to Mr. Robert Leveque. mThe showcases need to be expanded to accommodate the students' art uvrk. Printing with reeds and cork is not easy. says Bar- bara Megregian, as Mr. Robert Ferguson points out a few places that she missed. Mr. Ralph Hashoian adeptly demonstrates the technique of making pottery on a potter's wheel for interested art students Sharon Michalak and Larry Kosiba. Art Elective classes provide 28 StoflF and Academic Life