Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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 Oh, it has to come out!” moans Dr.” Pam Reida to her agonized patient, Tom Delaney, as Cindy Steckel, Jannet Ault, Joyce Godwin, and Barb Danielson act as critics for a dramatics class characterization. Speaking, Acting, Creating ... Arts, too MISS MARGARET WEST American Literature English MISS DOROTHY 8LACKMAN French Spanish Speaking skills assume authority in the dramatics, public speaking, and speech courses. Promoting artistic discrimination, dramatics meets its goals by teaching first the appreciation of drama and then its interpretation. Speech affords speaking opportunities, while educating students in expressing and in good listening. Although public speaking attempts to do the same, it teaches at an advanced, more detailed level. Journalism emphasizes newswriting and the essentials of a newspaper, in addition to evaluating newspapers. Latin emphasizes the classical world. Students of the modern langu- ages, French, German, and Spanish, learn to read with comprehension, to write confidently, to pronounce with ease, and to understand the oral langu- ate — the four communication trends. MR. ELIHU COOPER MR. RONALD MAERTENS English Audio Visual Office Latin German MRS. CHERYL WHITEMAN Spanish 20

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MISS HORTENSE FINCH Department Head English Literature English MRS. MARY IMHOFF American Literature Grammar MRS. FRANCES PAPENBROCK American Literature English Proving that all poets aren't famous, Marilyn Likeness reads her original poem to Miss Margaret West's American literature class as Bill Walker puts it on tape. Where do I put my footnotes? and But, I only have two references for my bibliography! are typical wails of Mrs. Mary Imhoff's grammar students as they prepare the long-awaited” term paper. 19

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MISS SHERRY KILPATRICK English Journalism Publications Advisor Whether the topic be planning a new United Nations or just trying to strengthen the old one, discussion groups in speech classes aid in developing more poised, assured public speakers. MRS. MAE ELMA TORNQUIST American Literature Dramatics English Modern language students are able to listen to and to imitate the voices of true Frenchmen, Germans, or Spaniards in the new language laboratory. Miss Dorothy Blackman operates the control board for French students Vickie Peter- son and David Close. 21