Effingham High School - Signet Yearbook (Effingham, IL)

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ENGLISH LITERATURE PRE-COLLEGE RHETORIC English literature is an elective course and is taken College bound students look to Miss Burtschi's pre by those students who have a fine appreciation for wllege Yhel0fiC COUISC HS 3 gfeal help I0 them. literature. Marilyn Strobel, Donna Stanton, Emma Harold EUb3Uk5- 10110 AUSUH and D00 Th0I'H8S are Lou Edwards and Sylvia Townsend are in a discussion Coflfeffmg with NUSS BUIlSChi- period with Miss Burtschi. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT English I, English II and American literature are required subjects. There are five teachers in the English depart- ment: Miss Burtschi, who has been teaching at Effingham High School for the past eighteen years, Mrs. Strobel, Miss Statler, Mr. Hager and Mrs. Tatge. SPEECH I SPEECH ll Students in speech I learned the international pho- Richard Wooley. Ted Gravenhorst, Rita McDaniel netic alphabet. Mrs. Tatge, Billie Ann Chance Sally Siddens, Edith Matthews and Frank Davis. and Wilmeta Loy observe as Pat Lankford translates Speech Il students. preview the senior class play, English into phonetics. The Babbling Brooks. Mr. Marshall, student teacher, and Mrs. Tatge enjoy a laugh with the students.

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,O .aff CLASSES Effingham High School is proud of its curriculum. For graduation from Effingham High School. a student must have successfully completed sixteen units of work. A unit is the credit earned for one full year in a subject. The following units are required before graduation: 1. Three units of English. 2. Two units of social studies, one of which must be American History. 3. One unit of science. 4. One unit of mathematics, 5. Four years of physical education. The other units may be made up of elective courses. :ff QSMW3 XA 'U 5 , .. s:,.'- fha- ir 's fix. Yo. .w,Q.i'flf'1g.2ai . at S it 'w ' :st r E hex KV 1 . f 'f ' 1 h fl f .4 ts g Q -91:1 ' , 5'-rj.. , .. r ENGLISH Il Mr. Hager and Miss Statler teach English Il classes. Ruth Davis, Sharon Davis, Lola Lee Scott, Janice Mc- Callen. Sharon Petty, Patsy Thomas and Wilma Loy are correcting tests in Mr. Hager's English ll class. ENGLISH I English I is taught by Miss Statler and Mrs. Strobel. This picture shows a cor- ner of Mrs. Strobel's room when her classes turned their classroom into a small museum last fall. This display showed the arts and crafts of the various countries whose literature the students had been studying. Mr. Marshall, stu- dent teacher, Ruth Anne Angel. and Mrs Strobel are in the picture. AMERICAN LITERATURE American literature students, Gerald Broom, John Castella and Shirley Wines, confer with Miss Statler.

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1 Yr lf? CIVICS Linda Gasser, Sarah Gravenhorst, Artie Babbs and Mr. Beals are talking over world affairs in a civics class. Civics is a freshman subject. 41 WORLD HISTORY World history is a sophomore subject. First row: Janice McCa1len, Cecil McWhorter, Sharon Davis Judy Pagel, Karl Probst, Janet Plummer. Second row: Terry Foreman, Clarice Shadwell, Clarence Steele, Gerald Van Dyke, Rex Foreman, Dale Yemm. HISTORY DEPARTMENT Mr. Morgan, Mr. Beals, Mr. Swinger and Mr. Richardson are the instructors in the history department. Mr. Morgan is the senior member of this group. He has taught at Effingham High School for the past twenty-three y88l'S. AMERICAN HISTORY Helen Sinkler, Mr. Richardson and Vernon Babbs are discussing the crisis in the Egyptian-Israeli area. American history is required for graduation. It is taught to juniors. SOCIOLOGY Bottom row: Tom Utz, Ronnie Brown, Edith Matt- hews, David Hammer, Kathy Zimmermann, Mr. Swinger, Frances West, Janice Gillespie, Paula Eng- el, Larry Pagel, Donna Stanton, Ted Gravenhorst and Judy Lewis are having a political discussion in sociology class. The second semester the class will study economics. Sociology is an elective course open to seniors. v - X