Wayne High School - Sentry Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Your mother ' s tongue

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Johnny has finally learned to read, thanks to those liter- ate teachers of English. Johnny can write effectively, speak profitably and read advancedly. Johnny has read about the effects of war, learned to write a research paper, and examined several short story authors. Fiction has seen into the future and become a mystery, the Greeks have been dramatized, and the Seniors composed on the advanced level. The basic rules of grammar are learned, memorized, used, and used again, and then, alas, forgotten. Numerous lit- erary devices are condensed into a comprehensive course of study. It ' s this course that develops the creative juices that flow from the pen to the paper . . . j fr 1 i i p t ™ — Geraldine Mansbach Allen Peters John Sawyer JohnSepter Robert Stookey

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Parlez-vous francais? HablaEspanol? Sprechen sie deutsche? or what ever you want to call it. It ' s an escape from the reality of English. During one period a day for one, two, three, or possibly four years those students yearning for a little more culture, escape to their class rooms that soon translate into France, Spain, Germany, or The Roman Empire. In these dream worlds, one loses their mother tongue for a sister tongue or a brother tongue. Whatever you call it, it ' s an experience. Sometimes the experience gets rough, and sometimes it gets easy; but it ' s different, educational, and always interesting. Most stu- dents still wonder why most countries have a different word for dog, cat, boy, girl . . .