Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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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

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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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W Science Promotes World Progress Wig.: 5 HILE Miss Ruth Bell's biology classes were busy dissecting earthworms and learning the bones of the body, her science classes spent their time studying the general science field. Mr. Maurice Fowler's physics class conducted experiments to find out how much energy is needed to run up a flight of stairs. His chemistry class became well aware of the hazards of that class after a few of them became ill when some gas they were working with got out of hand. Mr. Harry Shadle taught seventh and eighth graders science. ln this class they leamed about the scientific side of nature and life. One of their projects was to see how many types of leaves they could find and name. Maurice Fowler A . B. Rio Grande ,JOLT Q' vi' 43' Irene Ferrell, Marge Gfell, Charles Miller, and Ronnie Morehouse dissect a fish in biology class. Ruth Bell A. B. Oberlin College M. A. Wellesley College 2 Harry S . Shadle Creating an electric spark in an ex- A , B , Mount Union periment are Bob Mitchell, John M. A. Western Reserve Schauss, Alan Wickert, and Don Young.