Southwest High School - Sachem Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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An unforgettable sight-the beautiful Plaza at Georges keeps in training with a judo workout. Christmastime. mbassadors of Good Will Participating for Southwest in the American Field Service program this year were two stu- dents from different countries. Georges Ertzer of Strasbourg, France, spent a year with Mr. and Mrs. VVashburn and their son Kit. Highlights of his stay were his activities as President of the French Club and the experiences gained while on the Student Council Executive Board. Dave Foster enjoyed last summer in Heidelberg, Germany, with Dr. and Mrs. Krug and their son Monnie. His visit was climaxed by a Senate reception at Bremen for all the students visit- ing Germany. The boys not only carried back many pleasant memories of their trips, but also served as good will ambassadors for their countries. A memorable scene-the inspiring beauty Dave visits a cuckoo clock factory in the Black Forest. of old Germany.

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excitement and seriousness

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Mastering the 33 character Cyrillic alphabet. Sprechen Sie? For several years Southwest has heen proud, and justly so, of its outstanding foreign lan- guage department. Offering a wider and more comprehensive selection of courses than any other Kansas City high school, our language department this year introduced into its curricu- lum a course in Russian. Even though the study of the difficult tongue proved hard work for twenty-seven Indians, the enthusiasm inspired by this rather unusual innovation remained undimmed. A new aid to learning German, as shown below, was the practice of recording passages and then replaying them to detect the mistakes in pronimciation and inflection. As usual, Caesar's campaigns and Cicero's oratory offered a challenge to the Latin classes, while contemporary literatu1'e captured the interest of French and Spanish students. Surely every Southwest student should take pride in the outstanding advances of our excellent language de- partmeut. The second-your German class c.rperin1z'nt.s' with new After all these years, Gaul is still dilIff1'l'li methods of study. into three parts.