Brandywine High School - Azurean Yearbook (Wilmington, DE)

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EGLIH WORD ,WORD , WORD Pause, Tone, Mood, Pace, Eye Attention! Public speak- ing students employed these techniques in their speeches, pantomimes, impersonations, and other presentations. Each of Mrs. Goodmanls students had the opportunity to perform before the school in a play. This year the Workshops, as the classes were called, performed 4'The Twelve Days of Christmasf, The Skin of Our Teeth,,7 'gSpoon River An- thologyf, mllhe King and I, and HI Remember Mamaf' 'cl Remember Mamaw was presented at the Delaware Drama Festival and also on closed circuit television for students at Forwood Elementary School. Twice, groups of selected students, known as the Basketeers because they carried their props in baskets, went over to Foulk Road School to dramatize versions of suchfavorites as HThe Three Little Pigsf' They gained a concept of audience reaction and participation through this experience. Later in the year a group of students demonstrated tele- vision techniques while putting on the performance, 64What's in a Name?H for the benefit of fifth' and sixth graders. World Literature was offered this year as a full-year course to selected seniors. Reading from books of the past and present, these students not only were introduced to the worldls best literature, but acquired a better knowledge of people and of the world. On opposite page two students contemplate but a few of the books studied. Miss Galloway conducted this yearls Creative Writing class. By studying the styles of renowned authors and by writing compositions, plays, short stories, and other creative works, these students were transformed from amateur scribblers to skillful writers. MISS DIANE CAMPBELL C11 fBloomsburg College, B.A.D, in her first year of teaching, instructed students in English 1-0 and Public Speaking. She replaced MRS. KAY REIS- SING fill fDe Pauw University, B.A.D, who moved to Chicago in February. MISS MARY ANNE GALLOWAY f2j K Swarthmore College, B.A.g University of Pennsylvania, M.A.j taught English I2 and Creative Writing and also was in charge of Brandywine's literary magazine, Arcadia. MRS. CHARLOTTE GOODMAN f3l fNew York University, B.S.g University of North Carolina, and University of Pennsylvania. M.A.l taught classes in World Literature and Speech and Drama. Her maior extracurricular activity was directing the senior play, A Mid-summer Nighfs Dream. Spoon River Anthologyf, a workshop production, center far right, this page, was one of many such presented in assemblies and to parents and friends in private evening performances, as was also The Skin of Our Teeth, lower right.

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5 VK X.. Y, Ersxctxse LS . ljm NO, ls Seamus, Sotemm, E H kjilimd qc rams 9ua I1 .Dkma Union. LIE OR LAY? The English Department, due to the steady increase of pupils, has doubled its staff over the past five years. The tenth graders, after making the trek over to Foulk Road School, boned up on grammar and were introduced to a cross section of literature-short stories, novels, poetry, and Shakespeare. Americ n literature was studied by the juniors in coordination 1th the required American History, as well as the fin oints of grammar and writing styles. In the twelfth e, emphasis was placed on Shakespeare and other ish writers. Learning vocabulary, giving speeches, d writing term papers f except for those lucky so s English students busy all during the year. J . . GARY BOOM KU fBrown University, A.B.g Mans- ield State College, Bucknell Universityj taught English 11 and advised the Junior Class. MRS. A. F. COOK, III f2D fLake College and the University of Pittsburgh, B.A.l taught English 11. MRS. TOOMS fMarshall College, B.A.3 came in March to take Mrs. Cook's classes. MR. ROBERT M. BARTO f3l fUniversity of Delaware, A.B.g graduate workl was one of the tenth grade English teachers who taught at Foulk Road School. He also served as adviser to the Sophomore Class and coached the Baseball Team. MR. DAVE L. CURTIS U1-J tWheaton College and The King's College, B.A.g West Chester State College and the University of Delaware, M.A.3, a tremendous singer and teacher of English 12, was also kept busy with the Cross Country and Track Teams. MR. ARCHIE HENDERSON f5l fSlippery Rock State College, B.Ed.3 taught English 10 during his first year here. MR. MARTIN L. BRINER f6l tMuehlenberg College, B.A.g University of Delaware and West Chester State College, M.Ed.J that great impersonator, taught English 10 and directed the activities of the Bridge Club and Folksinging Club. MR. NORMAN D. GILLAN f7l fWest Chester State College, B.S.g University of Dela- ware, M.S.l was a teacher of English 11 and coached the Debate team and the Track Team. MR. JOHN A. KOWAL- EWSKI KSU f West Chester State College, B.S.g University of Delaware. M.A.l was a teacher of English 11 and the director of the musical, Best Foot Forward? DR. THEO- DORE M. ZINK f9l lUniversity of Delaware, B.S.. M.S.: Temple University, Ed. D.l, who taught English 12 and was in charge of the Chess Club, also eagerly collected nickels for the Zink Vacation Fund from students guilty of speech mis- demeanors. Three of Mrs. Coodmanls World Lit students, at bottom of page, present a book report in different style.

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