Alexander High School - Spartan Shield Yearbook (Albany, OH)

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LANGUAGES The English language — Probably the first language that most of us spoke and wrote. We were raised with it being used around us daily. Therefore, our use of it is perfect, without error, right? Wrong! Unfortunately, we were not born with the innate sense of the proper use of prep- ositions, sentence structure, or the cor- rect way to write a term paper. We begin as freshmen with the basic rules of grammar and the definition of vocabulary words, with plagiarism often heading the list. As we put what we have learned to use by writing themes and term papers, we often forget the meaning of that dreaded word. Somehow, encyclo- pedias, magazines, and newspapers man- age “to take the words right out of our mouths.” Top: 1. Robert Shaffer, English, Dean of Students. 2. Janet Peyton, English, Speech. 3. Jim Gibbons, English, Special Reading. 4. Jack Cornell, Eng- lish, Creative Writing. Bottom: 1. Check it out! 2. Debbie Peters. 3. UNdo it! 4. One of Alex’s larger classes. 5. And then Goldilocks said . . . 24

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Ever wonder why the wind blows, or how an air- plane stays up in the air? You may not know it, but these are a few of the things that you learn about in gen- eral science. 2 + 2 = ? If you don’t know the answer, you had better find Mr. Sfakianos fast and get into one of the math classes. There is a wide selection: General Math, Business Math, Alge- bra I II, Geometry, and Senior Advanced Math. Take your pick, they all teach you that the answer is 4. (or is it 5?) Top: 1. Gary Dunfee, Chemistry, Physics, Science. 2. Susan Chees- man. Advanced Math, Geometry, General Science, Business Math. 3. Sharon Ervin, Algebra, General Math. Bottom: 1. Disecting a pig in Biol- ogy. Sherry Shiltz, Nancy Cross. 2. So you didn't even attempt to do your homework. 3. Arc all those plants legal? 4. Eric Bobo. 5. Ev- eryone has an opinion. 6. Keep your mind on class, Mark. Sn 118.69 Sb 121.75 ! 82 Pb 207.1S . 83 Bi 208.980 r rr 1 1 23

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Alexander is full of polyglots. Hey, what’s a polyglot?? Have you seen any running around lately? Well, I’ll tell you one thing, if you eavesdrop on Mrs. Rauschenberg’s Spanish and French classes or maybe Mrs. Kaldis’ Latin class or even an English class or two, you will find out what a polyglot is. Actually we only have a few polyglots here at school. Two of these are Mrs. Rauschenberg and Mrs. Kaldis. This gives you a hint of what a polyglot is. For those of you who still don’t know what a polyglot is, I will now solve the mystery. A polyglot is, one who is versed in many languages. Parlez-vous Francais? Whether you do or don’t doesn’t really matter, in the lan- guage room at Alexander High. You can learn everything from regular verbs to sentence structure. Top: 1. Cynthia Kaldis, Latin. 2. Helen Horn, Journalism, Mythology Folklore. 3. Gretchen Rauschenberg, French, Spanish, Personal Typing. Bottom: 1. Teresa Lyons. 2. Are you sure this is how Farrah got started? Dove Steele. 3. One ringy dingy ... Greg Jolley. 4. Dan Gwinn demon- strates No-Bake cookies in Speech. 25