Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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One oT The library's 600 TransacTions per day is Taking place, Books Link Modern Reader to Life, Past and Future Helen Mason MaTilcla PenningTon Again This year Miss MaTilda PenningTon, librarian, and Mrs. l-lelen Mason, assisTanT librarian, have Tried To build inTeresT around The sTudenTs' needs. They add enioyable and helpTul books To The library and give individual help wiTh reTerence problems. BuT whaT a iob iT would be To run The library eTTicienTly Trom 8:00 o'clock in The morning Till 4:00 o'clock in The aTTer- noon wiThouT The help oT The sTudenT library pages! The nine pages are paid Tor Their Time beTore and aTTer school, buT They give Their Time during The six sTudy periods. Their iobs noT only enTail puTTing away, checking ouT, and Tinding books, buT also wriTing overdue noTices and keeping back issues oT The magazines in order. A browsing Table , displaying inTeresTing and valuable books on special Themes, has been made available. AnoTher advanTage Tor l-Tughes sTudenTs To enioy is room 2l4, The annex To The library, which is used during classes Tor more inTormaTion on classroom work. In advance, The librarians place in This room many books dealing wiTh The Topic being sTudied. The Teacher may Then supervise The work done on The assigned research proiecT. Also, Tor sTudenTs sTudying a Toreign language as well as English, records have been made available. Some oT The annual displays arranged by The librarians are Tor Book Week, Careers Conference, NaTional PoeTry Day, and special holiday celebraTions.

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Amy S. Abboff Marv J. Bookoul Ruberf M. Bradford louis L. Brooks Emilie Bullor k Virginia Burke Frances A. Haas Marqarel O. Hall Anna H. Hamlin Ella G. Johnson ...ig ,f Virginia Keck Hazel Kfippenhoefer Edith K. Long Kafhleen Lovell Marv J. Mill!-r English Classes Sparkle The English curriculum is designed fo give helpful insfruc- fion fo all sfudenfs. Those who are deficienf in fhe mechanics of English are placed in English Special. Slow readers receive special fraining in Miss Wycoff's Remedial English classes. Business maiors fake Commercial English. Collegeebound sfu- denfs affend differenf classes from fhose of sfudenfs wifh no college plans. Public speaking, dramafics. and journalism afford fraining in specialized fields. The successful complefion of fhree years of sfudy in fhe Advanced English Course gives oufsfanding sfudenfs fhe chance fo begin college English af fhe sophomore level. From fhis group af Hughes come many winners of sfafe and nafional wrifing confesfs. Yes, fha English Deparfmenf is helping fo prepare Hughes sfuclenfs for life during fhe Sparkling Sixfies. Opposife Page: ln fha library. Mrs. Hamlin's English IV sfu denfs are doing research proi ecfs on The Mayor of Casfer bridge. ln Mrs, Bullockls Advanced Placemenf Class, acfivifies promofg V,-Daiwa Wnllflfl Grid crili-tal fhinking. lg!-. Mary Pollard Leola M. Reynolds Aria P. Schawe Richard Thornbury Marybefh Wycoff

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ln a nuclear age, when naTions are becoming more and more inTerdependenT, iT is necessary Tor Americans To become proTicienT in The use oT Toreign languages. Hughes is doing iTs parT in developing linguisTs Through iTs excellenT Foreign Language DeparTmenT, composed of Miss Gladys Busch, Mrs. Mary Howell, Mrs. Gwendolyn McCullough, Mrs. JanneT Murphy, and Mr. John Purcell. InsTrucTion in French and Spanish may begin in The sevenTh or eighTh grade Tor Those sTudenTs Tollowing a college preparaTory course. LaTin sTudenTs, under The leadership oT Miss Busch, be- come imbued wiTh knowledge oT an ancienT culTure and ac- quainTed wiTh The basis of many oT our English words. Un- der The guidance oT Mrs. Mary Howell, sTudenTs learn French culTures as well as The French language. ln Mrs. Murphy's German classes, sTudenTs gain an undersTanding oT The de- velopmenT of The Germanic naTion and learn To speak The language which was The naTive Tongue of many CincinnaTians' Torbears. Mr. John Purcell and Mrs. Gwendolyn McCullough acquainT Their sTudenTs wi+h The culTures of many Spanish- spealcing counTries, in addiTion To Teaching The language iTselT. Recordings play an imporTanT parT in many OT The lan- guage classes. Through The use of Them, sTudenTs hear The language spolcen by naTives oT The foreign counTries and Thereby learn The correcT pronunciaTions. Mr. Purcells classes. in addiTion, had The unique experience of Tape-re- cording Their own voices in Spanish and Then hearing The recordings Tor The purpose of correcTing errors. Hughes High School can be proud of iTs conTribuTion in language insTrucTion. Knowledge of Languages Helps World RelaTions ' '-1-,. ,ff ' 'Q 'iii' . , . 1 . ' if i 'Q I Cf .Qi I .- . 7 ... . ,Iii Q . 9 Q ' Souvenirs Trom Mexico add color To Mr. Purcell's Spanish classes. Ole! is x n ss- ' . x S, . n-:, Gladys Busch , I Mary S, Howell ' Gwendolyn McCullough JanneT S. Murphy John M. Purcell