Lorain High School - Scimitar Yearbook (Lorain, OH)

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,aw Rohrbuugh Lqkue Mikegell Carol Powell Warren Rodgers Department Lorain High school library is used throughout the driy lay students working on research papers, preparing reports, or lust looking for a good book to read. At LEFT, two students are using the card catalogue file as a means of gathering information on their parti- cular subject, -S S? Edol McDowell To better understand the English lan- guage as it is today, the students trace the language to its origin centuries ago. LEFT: Two advanced writing students re- fer to the map in their study of the language. Gus Ferguson and Karen Sun- man discuss the origin of the Indo- European family of languages. Bernice Sergeant Nancy Wurm Vera Tipton

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trnard Crabtree Helen Frisbie John Gibson Sara Mae Gruey Joan Jameson nrguerite Kingsley ahn Marlwlcis helma Pitts These students, college bound seniors, are learning the art of creative writing in an Aclavnced Writing class. Through Advanced Writing, the students will become more proficient in the funda- mentals of writing, Proiects of the stu- dents include composing short themes ana later, longer stories. A research paper introduces the students to the library and prepares them for col- legiate study methods. This course is elective and prepares seniors to undertake the challenge of Freshmen English in the the halls of higher learning. English A sophomore English class shown here RIGHT begins high school English with Miss Frisbie. During the course of the year they study short stories, the basic rules of grammar, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Later in the semester, they compose paragraphs and short themes. Sophomore English is the step- ping stone to a better and more skillful use of the English language. i

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X Fideliq Cummings Ida Stone Mary Ellen Weaver Elizabeth Wright Language Department Fas Williams Fahye Gruber Sara Beckwith s. Latin, French, Spanish, and German are taught in the foreign language department by Miss Stone, Miss Wright, Miss Cummings, and Mr. Everitt. Foreign language credits have become in- creasingly valuable to the student because of the ra- pidly shrinking world. Not only does two years of ian- guage teach the student the foundation of a foreign tongue, but it enables him to become acquainted with the people, their customs, and their way of life. LEFT: Miss Stone helps to translate Latin. Home Economics Department Home Economics is now expanded to include child care, family relations and home furnishings, as well as cooking and sewing. This program is aimed at the in- creasingly complex iob, termed keeping house. LEFT: Miss Graber salts the soup.