Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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1' T XLLAJJ 1 si 'V Mr, Howard Wheeler examines the work of one of his English students. 'Porgy, a recent Broadway play, is the topic of conversation between Mr, Kendall Falke and wife of Mr, Charles King, guest soloist, English Cffers Variety O be or not to be, that is NOT the question. The question is: Have the students learned anything in English this year? There seems to be no doubt that they have been studying a wide variety of things. While Mr. Kendall Falke's English classes were busy giving arguments for and against Henry David Thoreau, his joumalism class was working on the school paper and the annual. Mr. Howard Wheeler taught his seventh and eighth grade classes the fundamentals of grammar and litera- ture. The students of Mrs. Naomi Weibe's English class- es were reading such classics as The Ancient Mariner and Treasure Island. Under the direction of Mr. Donald Hamess, the speech class put on several plays, one of which was student written. An outgrowth of the class was the ra- dio program, Club Seventeen, with disc jockeys, Ted Smith and Alan Robinson. lt was heard every Saturday on Station WEOL, Elyria, from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. Another outgrowth was a radio program, Teen-Age Rec- ord Party, which sports joe Murray and Bill Cash, over WLEC, Sandusky, Saturday aftemoons from 2:30 to 4:30 Kendall Falke Howard Wheeler B.S., M.A. B.S., inEd. Ohio State University Bowling Green State :lawns M 5 6' f '7' Naomi Weibe Donald Harness A.B. B.S.in Ed. Bluffton College Wilmington f 1' ! f'g V I'

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-Z During his busy days, Mr, James Ross meets frequently with Mr, Lowell Ruggles to discuss enroll- ment and schedule problems for the school year, MR. RUGGLES JOINS COLE STAFF R. LOWELL RUGGLES has finished his first year as principal of the seventh and eighth grade divi- sion of the high school. He has ably handled the prob- he taught a class in Ohio govemment. He previously held the position of principal of Bene- dict School. SECRETARIES GIVE VALUABLE SERVICE BLE and cheerful service was given by Miss janet Twaddle and Miss Elsie Miller as secretar- ies to Mr. james Ross and Mr. james H. McBride. Students met Miss Twaddle when getting ab- sence slips and Miss Miller when obtaining working permits . Not pictured: Mary Hesselkus, Librarian. 17 l lems of the pupils under him. Aside from this position, fsgg an ffiffif f r . f it ,S -r 4 .gsffy YA i as-4, Lowell Ruggles B.S. in Ed. Ashland

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Languages Present Challenges . s ,sr O many people, Latin may be considered to be a dead language, but not to the students of Miss Madge Mossman's Latin class. Here they leamed N6 the conjugation of the various verbs and, most important, how to understand .,,,,, the language. Pupils of Mr. P. 1. Garcia's classes went around speaking Spanish to all they met. With fellow classmates this worked out fine, but those who did not take the subject had just to nod in agreement to save embarrassment. Madge C. Mossman Ph. B. Denison University .- nl 4 4 ,F 'ff I Charles Fadley points out the Roman ruins located in P G . France to Peter White and ' arcla Judy Carpenter in Latin B' Th-1 B- D - class. D Colgate University 'W Learning the proper use and details of radio is Pall of the fundamentals Mr, P, J, Garcia pronounces and sounds out the Spanish words, La lec- included in Mr. Harness's speech class, as shown by Stan Chapin and cion para manana to Shirley Marion, Martha Motsch, and Mary Finch. Alan Robinson. 19