Lake Forest Academy - Caxy Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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M r. W alsh, Mr. Appleby, Dr. Hartman, Mr. Delano, The language department of LFA offers to the student body German, French, Spanish, and Latin. lts members-Mr. Richard H. Delano, de- partment head, Dr. Robert S. Hartmeng Mr. Clarence Appleby, and Mr. Frederick A. VValshfform a very efficient and capable staff. ln these days of world disorder a knowledge of different languages is invaluable in armed services. The world is growing smaller as each year sees new and different inventions which tend to bring together the nations of the world. W'ith a growing awareness of international relation- ships which will soon prevail throughout the world, we, as Americans, have to make a sincere effort to establish a precedent for trying to under- stand our fellow countries. By what better method can we accomplish this than by learning the language of these countries? Cognizant of these facts, the department has strengthened its program and now offers a large variety of languages. There are so many different reasons why languages are important that everybody realizes the necessity of a workable knowl- edge of at least one, if not two, in addition to English. LFA has taken all these facts into consideration, and the result-a definite emphasis on this material. ln past years the language department has stressed the study of a language as learned from a textbook. This year, however, under a program sponsored by Mr. Delano the department has worked with each student in the oral use of language. The student makes records and he' ' ' Thus he learns to speak the language as well ' ' ars iecords. as to read it.

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CIENCE DEPARTME Chemistry, physics, biology, general science, chemistry-physics, tutor- ial physics, and tutorial chemistry are the subjects which come within the province of the science department, headed by Mr. Edgar N. Sanford, physics teacher. The other two members of this department are new this year-Mr. George H. Blackwell, teacher of chemistry, and Mr. Bert H. Grove, teacher of biology. This year was the beginning of a new science program which is de- signed to coordinate with the new curricular program. For the juniors who plan to take chemistry and also physics there is offered a new course which tends to unite the two subjects-chemistry-physics. Other newly inaugurated subjects are tutorial chemistry and physics. All of these new courses were initiated chiefly to further student understanding in normally diliicult subjects. A further addition is the new biology laboratory which is modernized with the newest equipment available under the current conditions. The physics and chemistry laboratories have also been modernized by the purchase of new materials so that now all laboratories have available practically any equipment desired. All of this work would have been impossible without the combined effort of the members of the depart- ment working together, and a debt is owed to this group as great as to any organization of the school. Mr. Blackwell, Mr. Grove, Mr. Sanford.

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HISTORY DEPARTME T In these 1 rea in every daily newspaper, the department of history has a special task to perform. The men of this department link the happenings of today with those of yester- year in a manner that has given the student historian a point of view far advanced over those of different institutions. Under the leadership of Mr. Edward Arpee, whose book, The History of Lake Forex! Academy, was well received by the school and north shore alike, the department was operated in a manner never before attempted. The new plan was to cooperate closely with the English department in written material, so that the student would attempt to write better Eng- lish in both sections. Likewise one senior section correlated United States History with American literature. Time magazine was used extensively in another section of United States History, while the other devoted their study largely to Beard's The Rite Q' American Civilizaiion. The other members ofthe department-Mr. Edward Fleer, Dr. Robert Hartman, Mr. Kendall S. Pennypacker, and Mr. VValton E. Wetzel- closely allied themselves with Mr. Arpee so that the history courses offered this year were among the most interesting subjects in the school. To the men of this department the Academy owes much for its under- standing of history past and present. days when historv is being made and d ' gif, ff Lei 'N , iff. Mr. Arpee, Mr. Pennypacker, Mr. Wetzel, Dr. Hartman, Mr. Fleer.