Walter Hines Page High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Language department offers Latinum, “Habla ud. espanol? “Latinam dicitis?” “Parlez-vous franjais?” Foreign languages are becoming increa¬ singly important as our world grows smal¬ ler and smaller. Page has attempted from its first year to meet this need of linguistic knowledge by offering Latin, Spanish, and French to its students. The language classes have added much gaiety and variety to the curriculum, as well as meeting the needs of college-hound students. The Latin courses, taught by Mrs. Rosa¬ lind Brooks and Mrs. Marietta Allen were not only classes in grammar, but historv courses. The geography of Rome, the stories about famous mythological characters, the heroes of the days of the Empire, the life of the Roman people, all were revealed as the Latin students translated the stories in their textbooks. The importance of Latin can not During registration, Charles Gruehn patiently awaits to be placed in one of Mrs. Fredrickson’s Spanish classes. MRS. MARIETTA S. ALLEN Latin MISS RUTH A. BRILES French Charles Wilson shows pictures of the old Roman way of life to Mrs. Allen’s Latin class. 16

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MR. DAVID T. SHARP Biology MR. DONALD STOWE Biology Science department challenges students ter, energy, force, motion, heat, sound electricity, and electronics. Certain problems were set up for nine groups of students to experiment and present to the class. Milligrams, mixtures, atoms, valences, formulas, and hydro-carbons were familiar terms learned by the chemistry students under the direction of Mr. Harold Evans. With the exception of burns and broken equipment, the “chemists” benefited by doing actual experiments in the lab. Inorganic chemistry such as water and its elements, element families, or- ij ganization of chemistry, and a unit on organic chem- Lee Carr’s resignation is a direct contrast to Don Brooks’ curiosity about this experiment in Mr. Deans’ physics class, (above) Have you read the book How to Skin a Cat, by Muff Caffey, and Lisa Owings? (below) 15

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francais, and el espanol be overestimated when one realizes that so many English words are derived from Latin. Spanish was taught at Page again this , year by Mrs. jane Fredrickson. In her clas¬ ses, she added the spice and flavor of geog- l raphy and current events, since so many | Spanish-speaking countries have been in the I news. The usual grammar, translation, and vocabulary drills composed the main amount | of class time, hut recordings, films, guest j speakers and Spanish music enriched the course. The language of “gay Paree” was taught J to French students by Miss Ruth Briles and Miss Adelia Linnemann (who was new at Page this year). The customs, music, litera- 1 ture, geography, and everyday life of the |l people of France enriched the study of the | language. Drills on vocabulary and gram- !| mar, and translation played the usual part i in the course. MISS ROSELIND M. BROOKS Latin Bobby Bettis shows where Spanish-speaking people live to in¬ terested students, Diane Ward and Liz Lasater. (above) Sue Med¬ ley and Jane Vincent practice the finer accents of French as Cookie Birgel operates the tape recorder, (below) MRS. JANE FREDRICKSON Spanish MISS ADELIA PARK LINNEMANN French 17