Springfield Senior High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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FRENCH CLUB ADOPTS GIRL All Meetings of Club Are Conducted in French French Club Action: Janet Newell, Bill Keifer, Ruth Birch, Jeanne Thacker, Margery Ward, Ronald Mezger, Judy Howell, Barbara Rewey, Carolyn Edwards, Richard Osborn, Joan Schneider, Jane Hopkins. Do you know what it is like to adopt a child? Maybe you don't, but sixty- three Springfield High students do! These students are members of Le Cercle Francais, the French Club, who have made a Hpackage adoption of a seventeen year old French girl named Madeleine Abeille. Two packages, containing food, cloth- ing, and little nicknacks, go each month from the French Club to Madeleine. This intensely interesting project is not only educational to both parties but also immensely helpful to a girl in a country where food and clothing are pitifully scarce. The French Club offers to its members, enrichment and recreation in French. The large picture on this page is an excellent example of how the French Club makes the classroom studies live in vivid and exciting action. For in- stance, in class, students study about Paris and famous Parisian couturiers such as Lucien Lelong. With various scenes, such as the one pictured on this page, the French Club has enhanced the ordinary conception of French life. Under the capable direction of Mrs. -..sal 98 Eg..- Nina Ladd, the club has prospered and now is one of the foremost clubs in SHS. The active executive body for this year is as follows: Jeanne Thacker, president, Carolyn Edwards, vice-presi- dentg Judy Howell, secretary, Jane Hopkins, treasurer. The membership of the French Club is sixty-three and there is almost a one- hundred per cent attendance at all meetings. To start out the year, the club had a Wiener roast at Snyder Park. Other meetings featured games, singing, and original plays written in French by the students. At the annual Christmas meeting the initiation of new members takes place. Also, the French Club has each year one outside speaker and a French movie. French Club Group .wld if 4 1 l 1 ,l 1 tw l. r l li 4 J. I 1. 'i li . 1 , l

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CLUB LEARNS ABOUT GERMANY Music, Movies, and Guest Speakers Highlight Meeting of German Group Among the favorite serenades in the German lang- guage is Du, du liegst mir im Herzenf' which trans- lated means, You, You Lie in My Heart, This is one of many songs sung by the German Club when they present musical entertainment. Other meet- ings consist of movies on Germany and guest speakers. Both are very interesting and furnish excellent information on the German way of life. One of the most interesting accounts of Germany was given by Franz Benjamin, a student at SHS, who formerly had lived in Germany. He told the students about their school system and pointed out some of the disadvantages that a poor boy has in gaining an education. Other information about the geography of the country and his trip to America was very interesting also, and was followed by num- erous questions from the members of the club. On another occasion Mr. Elmer Leffel presented his magic art and succeeded in baffling the students, especially two boys who were securely bound to- gether when they tried to escape his rope trick. To end the year the German Club will have a big outdoor picnic party, probably at Snyder Park, where all sorts of games will be played. During the past year the club has offered an op- portunity for the students in the different classes to become acquainted and get a better understand- ing of the language they are studying. German Club Action: Gene Durmnt, Paul Aldrich, Minton Brees, Marguerite Elliot, Nancy - Lewis, Mary Ellen Ramsay, Curtis Gibson, and Donald Neff.

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LATIN CLUB PROBES PA 'I' Study of Ancient Times Informs and Entertuins Club Members The Latin Club has met with success again this year. With Miss Ruth Fitz as advisor, and Miss Dorothy Kraut- water, and Mr. Clarence Smith as co- advisors, the club has had excellent direction. Elizabeth Raup presided as president and conducted the regular Latin Club Action: Robert Renner, Richard Shank, Gene Eakins, Damon Kaufman, Paul Peck, Randolph Deer, George Getz, Phillip Hanes, Ann Mellinger, Elizabeth Raup, Delores Sheets, Joanne Sallee, Virginia Phillips. monthly meetings of the club. This club carried out its purpose of giving background and entertainment to its members by a variety of inter- esting programs. At an early meeting slides relating to the life of Virgil and showing ancient buildings, Roman Latin Club Group dress, customs and furniture were pre- sented. Interesting and informative talks were given on the life of Virgil and a detailed account of the plot of The Aeneid, Virgil's great work. At another meeting stories about early Roman times dealing with the tales of the mythological Gods and their duties were told. At Christmas time, the club members witnessed the ceremony of the lighting of the Saturnial Candles. There was also a discussion of the Ro- man Christmas Customs and festive refreshments were served. In February, in keeping with the spirit of Saint Valentines Day, the members exchanged valentine cards which they had made and which contained verses written in Latin. The love stories of the mythological characters, Cupid and Psyche, Pyramus and Thisbe and Orph- eus and Eurydice were also related to the club members. Through programs of this type, the members were both amused and educated. 99 ie-