Bishop Ireton High School - Flight Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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l .A X 173 rg P13 Often, students assist by running the equipment in the classes em- ploying the new Chilton languages methods. +- ,,,...u-.un-san A tape recorder and a projector- bizzare equipment for a language class of years ago-are a few of the modern aids that make the learning and the teaching of lan- guages easier today. A World To Be Translated Life, people, history, moods, loves, hates, art, war, discovery-these are as much the pre-requisites of language as are conjugations, declensions, and vo- cabulary. lreton is privileged to have three modern language teachers who have spent anywhere from 4 to 16 years living and studying in Europe. These men are qualified by experience to convey to the students the real French and German as spoken and interpret- ed by its native-born speakers. Latin presents a challenge. Her orators, her interpret- ers have long ago died. Through mock speeches, complete banquets and other devices, the spirit of Rome lives on.

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A New Goal One, two, three, four! The gym echoes the cadence of calisthenics. Sweat and energy drain from each student as he goes through a punishing series of strength-tests. This year, however, he endures not just for a grade, but for recognition and honor-for advancement. ln a program adopted by lVlr. Jack Stanton and Mr. Iver Magnussen, the physical education student has been given a goal: self-satisfaction and a shirt. To ob- tain both, one must meet a set of requirements, one for a gold shirt, the highest, the other for a red, a step higher than the lowest white. Pride has now be- come part of the vocabulary of the physical education student. A little sweat and strain by Mike Costello during an after school ex- ogenics class. an-nag Anchored to the wall, Joe Zell pits his strength against the appar- ent super strength of Steve May. Mr. Magnussen whistles the start of a game of legalized murder called dodgeball between his freshmen and Mr. Stanton's sophomores.

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He And Him Man is the subject. Perhaps for that reason, science is a poor word to use in connection with him. His ac- tions are often unpredictable, erratic. Yet, despite the complexity of man, the function of the social scientist is to find several common denominators from which man can be studied. World History is the initiatory stage. Here, the freshman is introduced to a world view. The student is urged to try for an appreciation of man's dependence on the past. He is what he is because of what was. In the junior year, the student makes an in-depth study of his own heritage in Amer- ica. Finally, the senior receives a type of citizenship course. Government is a complex study. There are so many legal devices, loopholes, checks and balances built into the American system, that a year's study makes the front pages of the newspapers only a little less superficially understandable. As a last challenge, Sociology is offered as an elective. Now history be- comes personal, the common, not the great is em- phasized. All in all, man, his folly, achievements, fail- ure, grandeur, is the subject and the object of social study. Even from outside the room, one can see what kind of tests Mr Gordon gives in history. Pooling their efforts, Steve Reichart, Neil O'Callaghan, and Jack Kirby nervously look over their Government notes for the test next period. .Q 4 What do you know about Logotherapy, Mr. O'Brien? asks Fr. Ha gan in Sociology. FranklfyJ, nothing, quips Bob O'Brien.