Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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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.

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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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P.E. Recognized as Essential Miss Koopmans instructs underclassmen. Physical fitness is one of the most important goals of the physical education department. The interesting but strenuous program includes training in team sports such as volleyball and basketball, and individual skills such as swimming, and tumbling. It is hoped that each P.E. student can be rated in the top half of the nation’s average, physical-fitness wise. These good-natured instructors, who direct the physical fitness program of our school, are: Donovan Phillips, Eliza¬ beth Koopmans, and Jerry Mosby, athletic director. Not pictured is Priscilla Gauthier. Ready, go! Mr. Phillips leads the boys in their daily calisthenics.