Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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' N 1.7 VIISS Ellen Batchelor and her ermtlve Wfltlng class listen for the fine points of story construction 19 Ellen Rothcn herg re lels l prose selection Dr A B1rnettLlngdale Chazrman who felt p lI'tlClllll'lX lnsplreel toole pen IH hlnel lI1Cl entered our own semi lnnlml Richard Young Contest IS xsell IS the mlm othel prose lnel poetrx competitions m lde IX llldblt' The English curriculum gained added depth from the use of grade theme centcrs which unified the liter lture xx rltten expression lnd discussion for e lcll year Entering fre shmcn explored the concept of The Self Rell mt lflCllXlLlll ll Second year students ex lITl1D6d The Ifld1N1dllll IS the Vlember of l Group As juniors we were concerned with The lnellvldu ll md the American Her It lge wlllle IS seniors we studied The IIldlXlLlll ll s ue st for L nlxers ll N llues class offered instruction ln the basic techniques of deb lte lnd offered ample opportunltv for oratlon Ellen Bltchelors Cre ltlwe W rltlng course presented cl challenge to ITIITIN students wlth lm lglnltlxe mlnels lnd l tllent for ex pressing themselves Would be forclgn correspondents beclme flmlll IT with the fundamentlls of reporting ln Ernl R Flelschers 0llI'I'lllI5IT'l cl lss The Dramatlcs Cl lss of Robert Stew lrt ind NI lI'lOI'l Thr lll s R lLll0 Dr un lt1CS cl lss were IV llllble to future Slflll Be I'Ill'llI'Clf5 md john Blrrvmores After eight terms of Minimum Essentllls Exlms students Hnlllx le lrned that they were being grfldlnteel from rlther th IH lust gfltlll lflflg high school At least thes xx ere hopeful Slllllllllt nleetlng, Dl'tDlI'lll0IlS wer: uexer lllse tlns xltllllll rs of the tlISlll5Hl0Yl class org., lnlze l elehlte S -A 5 P-,f -f' K ,, , - V V K5 sep. N , , Q . 2 .1 - . - i i , , , r , I Bxyx V V. 2 Q , . 5 l e e ai aj ' 1 1' . e ' -' ' h 1 YH H . . Q A A P .V I A ty fl . . . , ' A-Z ' . 'e ' , . f' ' . ' 2: ' 1. ' ' 'L ' - 2 'e 'f' a ' ' - ' , ' e ' U ' 2 e x l 1 ' ' 2 z ' - For the verbally gifted student, XVellter Belllettols Discussion English . . c ' Z ' . ' ' ' ' z 1 ' . 4 . . . . I U ' k fl i I I 7 . ' l T I g 1 V-,- . ,-ZA , ,- ee Je az' '- W z ' ' ' e . i J e 'e . 2 ' fe 2 . e ' 1 z ' 1 1 'e e e'z x ' fe 1 ' L ' e e I ' ' ' 'z Xe ', .' ' e 1' e 1' V . . , 2 ' e ' . a e ' , 'Y S . 7 , V H ' 'I 7 ' R 1 l .' ' ' ' ' ' ' f Y ' . ' ' f ' ' ' Ya ' -4 ' 1 '.

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l TEX Iames Kestenbaum searches dlhgently The vxtallty of Shakespeare s Macbeth uptrvates for the source of a literary allusion members of 1 senior class Front to back Isabelle Frledman Mana Menna Rosunmf. Gurrlux A comment on ln essay wms 1 smxlc Carole Depleno from Ira Held and senous consldera tlon from Mxchele Karaban E nglzsh Those who beheved that In Amerrca they havent used It for years and we refer of course to the Enghsh language needed to spend onlv one day in an Erasmus Engllsh class to have thelr OplIllOIlS changed Under the guldance of a dedlcated faculty we not onlv spoke Engllsh correctly but explored the grammatlcal aspects of the language as well Lxterature IH the form of novels short stones essays poetry and plays from mam C0llfltTl6S came ahve through enthuslastlc class readlngs and dlscusslons Those of us ,V S H , ' , 7 K if ,-1' ' J . f ' f -J' Y , . fl 6 45 , is 1 S. Q 7 7 . .1 , I I . , I . 7 1 7 7 ' I ,Y l

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Mr Max Cohen of the Spanish Department performs a post mortem on an exammahon 1 lb a .15 15.4.2 . 3: ...f 'F .':33'4 , ...' :'2'- zffwwa if Walter W Fried Chairman of Spanish Language Many ot us recall the CllI'lOl1S path our lountaln pens fol lowed as we advanced 1n the studv of a forexgn language Dur mg our first year we were slmply told that The pen lb on the table In our sophomore ve If we found our pens on 1 table near a door and IH our 1lll'l10I' velr thex were on 1 table near a door on the other slde of the room Fourth vear students could look for the object teetermg on 1 table near a door on the other sxde of the room about readv to fall on the floor On 1 more serlous note we found our llIlgUlStlCS courses enllghtenmg and enloyable Class conversatrons conducted IH the forergn language and regular drlll rn verb 11 conyuga tlons xdlomatlc expressrons and declenslons serx ed to frmll rarxze us XVltl'l the Havor as well as the mtr1cac1es of the