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

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All the world s a stage or at least that s the way Shake speare put It Puttmg the words of the Bard 1nto actual prac t1ce Pat Kler and Grldley Harrls were caught by the camera as they were dramatlzmg the scene from Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre 1n wh1ch Jane meets Mr Rochester for the first tlme Jane Eyre 1S one of several llterary works whlch Commerc1al Enghsh students read 1n conjunctlon Wlth the1r work 1n gram mar Commerc1al Enghsh classes also learn to Wflte clear con CISG letters both personal and bus1ness Thus they become useful 1n the bus1ness world and assured 1n the1r personal con tacts Thls then IS Enghsh 1n 1tS pract1cal appllcatlon Students are often prone to say that they need not study Engllsh because lt w1ll not be useful to them 1n makmg a l1v1ng But what could be more pract1cal to the c1t1zen of tomorrow than the assurance that he IS expressmg hlmself clearly and adeptly'7 Th1S IS Engllsh 1n ACTION' M1ss Rabey s sen1or Engllsh class watches two students dra matlze a scene from the novel Jane Eyre 44 7 77 7 . . . ' . - ' 7 ' ' 7 CC 3, . . . cc aa - - ' ' . , , . . , , . . . . 3 . . 64 77

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The Enghsh faculty Standlng MISS Bess Noble l1brar1an M155 Fay Mr Rolfes MISS Van Horn M155 Haeseler M155 Gaumer M155 Rabey Seated MISS Ball 1n er M155 Neer M155 R1tch1 Mr Racer MISS Raup Engllsh merely a necessary 6V1l7 Not at Spr1ngf1eld Hlgh School' Whether lt IS a d1scu5s1on of the best salutatlon for a busmess letter or an argument about the lnterpretatlon of a l1ne from Shakespeare each Engllsh class IS a l1velV lnterestlng one The Engl1sh faculty real1L1ng that Enghsh w1ll be essen t1al to us lf We are to become useful c1t1zen5 co ordlnate thelr courses so that we Wlll FECCIVG a good cultural background 1n Enghsh l1terature as well as a work1ng knowledge of usage and d1ct1on Unt1l we are sen1ors we w1ll all study the same course Then we are allowed to choose our course by dEC1d11'1g whether we w1ll flnd commerclal Engllsh more useful to us 1n our da1ly l1ves or whether we w1ll need the background of l1terature provlded by the college preparatory Engllsh course College Engllsh classes study Shakespeare 5 Macbeth Slr Walter Scott s Ivanhoe and A Tale of Two C1t1es by Charles D1ck ens as well as poetry short storles and other llterary forms Nelther do they neglect the practlcal appllcatlon of rules of grammar punctuatlon and spellm Thus Engllsh helps us to prepare for the future ' , ' ' , ' 4 - I . . . . . - , . , , . . . l 5 7 . . . Q n 5 . Z - 1 - a g 1 v . new - 7 r ' Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. Lena Noble, ' ' 1 B ' ' , - ' ' l y . . . . . , . 5 ' 7 KL 77 : 7 7 CL 7? if ' ' 77 ' 7 - ! Q ' . . O. . 7 D' 7 '

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Starlet Barbara Dennerlexn reads a Span1sh paper to her classmates The French Club portrays on a broadcast the happ1ness both g1ver and recewer ex de Sa1nte Anne at Plougastel France perience through our adoption of L'Ecole