Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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Reading aloud from Scholastic Magazine 9 IHS, We Current literature offers a challenge, and believ like it. Ot course we study the masterpieces of the old World, but who could be more fun than Chaucer or Shakespeare when they are at their best. So Why all this fuss about English being so uppity-uppity ? We find it a living subject, not a dead one. And no Wonder. Are you acquainted with all the up-to-date methods of instruction? Hearing classical record- ings read by Maurice Evans, Orson Welles, and Iudith Ander- son makes for delight, and poems become exciting when ' Grammatical games put vim, studied in choral reading form. ' ' ' nouns and adverbs. Radio script vigor and vitality into pro Writing and radio broadcasts take their place in program organization and otfer fun for all. Even Broadway steals into the classroom as we discuss the best plays of the year. When one actually puts Lady Macbeth on trial he lends new spice to Shakespeare . . . So if variety is the spice of lite our ' ' l Well-seasoned. English Dep artment is certain y Q--49... --.i W RUTH Youna ELIZABETH S. Hoc: HELEN LOCKARD E Lvmii IANE OWEN MARIAN G. Vnnmzn

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x..N Radio Script work. V.-H. Ss! nqlflifn fbefzafzlnzenl' Is it true that it takes a rugged individual to keep up with current literature? MARY D. GLENN Chairman AMY V, BOLLINGER IESSIE E. CRNRN ALICE M. Gocl-Inn

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