Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MR MICHAEL URAM B S.. M.A. University of Minnesota Spanith and Ijilin LANGUAGES This year another language, French, is being offered in the Upper School. It is taught by Mr. Kouyoumdjian. In the 1962-63 school year it was offered only in the fifth and sixth grades. Thus if a student maintains good grades, he can complete his language requirement for college by the end of his sophomore year. It must be mentioned here that in the last few years, more colleges arc requiring three or four years of a language in high school for entrance. The idea behind this is to allow more time to concentrate on a major, or other subjects, while in college. Also required in the Upper School is Latin. It is taught to all seventh and eighth graders and becomes an elective in the ninth grade. Other available languages offered to all high school students am Spanish, taught by Mr. U’ram, and Gennan. taught by Mr. Neher. It is felt that with this greater diversity of language, no Breck student will be denied entrance to the college of his choice for a lack of Itarkground languages. 22

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Student worship in the Breck chapel. RELIGION In a day when public education is being narrowed in scope and life is becoming more compartmentalized and specialized, Breck continues to emphasize the importance of the maturing boy as a whole person. Mental. physical, and emotional are all seen as vital, growing components of a single personality. The Judeo-Christian understanding of man as a special creation of God made in His image with the freedom to work out Mis values and purposes of life undergirds everything we do at Breck. Each boy is encouraged to grow in spirit as well as in mind and body. Wrestling with questions of faith and ethics in Sacred Studies helps a l oy expand the horizons of his faith and keep him apace with intellectual growth in other subjects. The Ota pel service gives him a chance for spiritual refreshment with the opportunity to gain new perspective and strength. Worship helps him look beyond his daily experience to the losing, continuing purposes of God. Chapel worship gives him an opportunity to offer himself to God in adoration and unselfishness. It lias been made painfully clear to us in the light of violent wickedness of national import this sear that it is not enough to educate a man's mind. For education must have moral and ethical guide lines and values which direct it to human good, not destruction: to set moral and ethical guidelines to help give life a Christian perspective, to start developing a discipline of worship, and put Breck in a unique position. There is no greater opportunity than this in our time. 24 Chaplain Jenkins read benediction.