Webster Groves High School - Echo Yearbook (Webster Groves, MO)

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English English was exploding with new plans to take effect this fall. The entire English Department has been revised! Nine-week electives ranging from Mythology and Folklore to This is the End!!! will be offered so that students will have the op- portunity to enroll in courses of interest to them. These courses are designed for ALL students, col- lege bound and non-college bound. The greatest advantage is that teachers, experts in certain fields, will be able to offer a more specialized presentation. This year, junior and sophomore English teachers constantly strove to improve dangling sentences, worn-out phrases, and poor diction. More com- plete sets of novels in the school library were made available for the convenience of all. The senior English curriculum has been based primarily upon a chronological survey of British literature, starting with Shakespeare's HAMLET and progressing to the present. However, for the first time, Sophocles, Camus, Sartre, Tolstoi, and others were read, while composition skills were refined by writing literary critiques of these authors' works. Seniors also had the opportunity to take Hu- manities, which studied the relationship of man to his civilization through art, drama, music, dance, philosophy, and literature. This two-hour course enabled students to attend . . . Art Museum ex- hibits . . . Old and New Cathedral . . . jewish Tem- ple . . . Christ Church Cathedral . . .Monday Club . . . and much more. Independent study was em- phasized to stimulate individual thinking power, supplemented with texts and outside reading. Q l I Mrs. Sandra Albright la AQQP Mrs. Elise Coleman Director of Publications Camera Club Mr. Lee Holtgrewe junior Class Sponsor Mrs. Minnie Phillips

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Mr. Paul Brackens Mr. Earl Quist Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Sophomore Class junior Class Guidance Council Student Council l rw? . 4 ' ' an 43-021 nf. ' fix gm ,,: , , 'az'.:.. A - . .A-1 nw? 1 'iff - ,ff ' :-MS'::f,,viWEf3:Lv:i7,i,:, . , f f 0 f 0 ,5 1 gg Ay, . -- fa, hc MQ .f ,,.,f,,- . -,M.,1,t..tz:, .rf Mr. Robert K. Smith Administrative Assistant Senior Class Student Council Sponsor J . Mrs. Lillian Gay Mrs. Nell Bopp Miss Ruth Ridgway Secretary to Mr. Brackens Secretary to Mr. Quist Secretary to Mr. Smith Administrative Assistants Art Flexibility in the new fine arts curriculum gave the art students a more meaningful use of their time. Such semester courses as basic design, drawing and paint- ing, printmaking, ceramics, art history, and advanced commer- cial design were offered to give Mr, David Hill Missloyce Williams Cross Country Coach Head Coach Track Chairman of Art Department Chairman of Methods Council the student a basic art back- ground, as well as provide an op- portunity for each student to work at his own level. This cur- riculum was directed toward the growth of young people in aware- ness, appreciation, and knowl- edge of the visual arts. Mrs. Mary Wilson

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