Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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Nancy Case, Joan Hill, Dorothy Metzger, Wylda Longanecker, Thomas P. Linkfield. Audio-Visual Materials Help to Improve Are you sure that ' s the way to say it? says Finnish exchange student, Kirsti Ahonen, to herself, as Connie Beal listens intently to Mr. Haan. T.R.H.S. this year, welcomed four new teachers in the EngUsh and Speech Department: Mrs. Coultes, Mrs. Case, Mrs. Fiester, and Mr. McNeill. Guiding students to clearer communication — both in the written and spoken word — is the purpose of the English and speech teachers. Aided this year by a substantial increase of visual ma- terials and records, their task is lightened and the material is easier for the students to understand. The department works together as a whole to pre- pare the student for his future college studies, his vocation, and role in life. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation and appreciation of both Ameri- can and foreign literature, on learning to speak with ease before a group, and on learning to write clearly and interestingly. One new course, forensics, was introduced this year. This was designed primarily to give inter- ested students experience in various types of speak- ing situations including group discussion and debate. The English and Speech Department is indeed concerned with the whole individual and his ability to communicate effectively.

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Classes Recognize Essential Need for Mathematics Mathematics is one of the most challenging fields of study for T.R.H.S. students. Knowledge of the use of numbers is essential to every person regardless of his future vocation. Students plan- ning to become engineers, scientists, or math teachers prepare for this in high school by four years of math: algebra I, plane geometry, algebra II, and advanced mathematics. To prepare other students for a general knowledge of math appli- cable to everyday Ufe, general and commercial mathematics courses are offered. Plans are being made this year for the ex- pansion of the honors program. This spring the seventh graders in the elementary grades are be- ing tested. Students will be selected from the test results and recommendations of their teachers to begin the program in the eighth grade next fall. The honors program will then be continued for the full five years of high school. The T.R.H.S. Mathematics Department offers every inquiring student an insight into the abstract field of numbers. Whether proving the rationality of a number or finding the area of a triangle, the student is impressed with the complexity of num- bers and realizes how little he knows in relation to all that is known. This realization is a challenge to the student to dig deeper and increase his knowledge. onald J. Riopel L. Arthur Willick, Jr., Robert Thompson, William Jacobs, Robert Jones

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Larry Haan Communication Sl ills an d Litef ly Appreciation Susan Coultes, Ernestine Locke, David McNeill. kills and Liter P- 23