Adlai Stevenson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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Perpetuateal Ia Language Department Q .47 Lois Heist H WNN ix. . Q, Wx 513 we Robert ViSS61' Coats might he inconvenient and fur hats ren- pursued their courses of study little alaunted lay der hearing impossible, but language students such minor details as heating breakdowns. Scotland's contribution to Ste11enson's Language Department, Mr. Groen, head of the Foreign Language Department, cheerfully Mr. Swift assumed the task of teaching the French 4-C's. pointed the finger of doom at the next student due to recite. ,ik -Q 'SK 25

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German peru for Lunch Animated ircurrionig Swinging with suspicious accuracy, a blindfolded Spanish student at- tempted to destroy a candy-flied pinata. Teaching and studying languages at Stevenson was rarely orthodox, and was therefore rarely bor- ing. Incidents came evenly spaced, so that the an- nouncement that ordered books had not yet been published was soon followed by the accidental erasure of a master tape, both of which were accompanied by the steadily dropping temperature of the language lab. ln between incidents, teachers attempted to initiate students into the mysteries of the subjunctive tense, Goethe, French poetry, and tape recorders. For the first time, Stevenson had fourth year stu- dents, who were able to supplement the lower level courses in methods as direct as making tapes of readings, to those as indirect as singing German VQD6I'3HfTliCll1IiElYt3lDlC in m me A.F.S. also provided an unexpected windfall to language students, and Estella patiently endured, and even encouraged, halting conversations in pid- gin Spanish. And while few Stevenson students were versed in Italian, George was sufficiently Huent in French to participate in an animated discussion of the rellexiveness of a word. Her studies in Mexico hardly prepared Mrs. Freydl to teach Spanish in the sub-normal temperatures that prevailed in the language lah for several days. Margaret Bennett Rosemarie Breckoff 24 june Freydl Michaela Graham

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Social Studies Department Made Marguerite Abromaitis Mary Bruske Larry Christoff Marjorie Jones Joyce Kazmierski The resource center was one of the most suc- cessful additions to the social studies program this yearg much of its success could he attribu- ted not only to its concentration of research materials, hut to the display of visual aids such as the project viewed lay Patty Sidley. Such projects created an atmosphere appropri- ate to the use of new study aids such as the filmstrip viewer used hy Richard Blake and Nick Exharos. The net effect of such innova- tions was to make the social studies courses offered more meaningful and relevant than they had been previously. 26 X . Stevenson's social studies department offered such varied courses as sociology and interna- tional relations to an interested studentry. The variety of courses offered assured each student of the possibility of taking a course geared to his interests and thus one to be looked forward to rather than resigned to. Partly responsible for the increased interest in the social studies was the addition of such courses as psychology that not only offered a new, but a challenging program, as well. The effectiveness of the courses was also increased by the innovations made possible by the new modular scheduling: for example, resource cen- ters, individual conferences, and tailored time periods. Such innovations were a major factor in bringing an important area of study to the students.