Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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Courses Offered in Language Arts Dewey Tuttle, new sophomore English teach¬ er, is shown here helping Jan Jermann with her composition. Along with his teaching assign¬ ments, Mr. Tuttle coaches cross-country, basket¬ ball, and track. Before coming to Astoria, he was a teacher at Pleasant Hill, Oregon. Mr. Sanders plays background music while students have a free reading period. These four English teachers, Dick Sanders, Priscilla Gauthier, Jo Swan¬ son, and Elizabeth Nopson co-operate in organizing a comprehensive language arts program. 15

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Marjorie Halderman, head librarian, looks over an interesting new paper-back with language arts teachers, Russell Alborn, Louann Schafer, and Nedra Christensen, in the Astor Post supply room, where supplementary sets of literature books are kept. Challenging Taking into account individual dif¬ ferences, the A.H.S. language arts department offers students many challenging courses. After the freshman year is spent in reviewing grammar and spelling, classes are programmed to teach ap¬ preciation of plays, novels, essays, and short stories. Writing assign¬ ments and group discussions are de¬ signed.to help students develop their abilities to-express themselves clear¬ ly. The advanced groups, composed of students who excelled in English classes the previous year, study novels in more depth. Opportunity to develop their speaking techniques is offered to in¬ terested students in the speech courses. The advanced students travel to speech tournaments several times a year, giving them-a special incentive to further develop their abilities. These and other Astoria students are fortunate in having the excellent reference materials and facilities for preparing language arts assignments. The journalism classes that pro¬ duce the Astor Post and the Zephy- rus train their staffs in writing for publication. Russell Alborn, senior English instructor, discusses parts in the play. The Taming of the Shrew, with John Kobbe and Jackie Smith. 14

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Foreign Language Program Expands “Repeat after me,” requests Mrs. Gross of her first year German students as she turns on the tape recorder. Magdalene Gross, our Ger¬ man and French teacher, who transferred here from the As- tori-a Junior High, has spent nine years in Germany. She has a Master of Arts degree and has attended Columbia University in New York and Munich Univer¬ sity in Germany. Lionel Yeaman, who teaches Spanish, comes to us from Long¬ view, Washington, where he taught Latin, Spanish, and French for ten years in the pub¬ lic schools. He is a foreign lan¬ guage major and has his Bache¬ lor of Arts degree. He also teaches French in the junior high part-time. Carl Carlson, Latin teacher, assists Peggy Knutsen with verb conjugations. “Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores . . . Lionel Yeaman, Spanish teacher at Astoria High, teaches a beautiful song, “Cielito Lindo, to his class. To set the mood, he wears an authentic Mexican costume. There is an increasing need for Americans to know more than the English language. With flying time from New York-only 6 hours to Paris and 8 hours to Berlin, we feel Europe is now a very close neighbor. This year German has been introduced for the first time in our ever-expanding foreign lan¬ guage program which also includes French, Spanish, and Latin.