Cincinnati Country Day School - Archive Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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SECRETARY SECRETARY MRS. C. R. GAMBLE MISS THELMA KRAMER ATHlEl'ICS MR. J. DAVID MCDANIEL University of Ohio B.S. in Ed; ART MRS. JANE WRIGHT mgimw $311,233? :lERCE upper school librarian

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LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HEAD MR. LESLIE G. IRWIN University of Cincinnati A.B., M.A. MR. PETER MACHEN University of Durham BA, MR. JOSEPH P. THESING Ohio State A.B, Throughout the years the objectives of the language department have remained the same but the methods have been changing. In order to further the ends of being able to read, write, comprehend, and speak the language, the prac- tice has been to use increasingly the spoken language even in explaining grammar. The same basic things are, therefore, taught in each successive year a student takes a language course but with a continual broadening and ex- panding of the scope of these methods. Reading, for example, goes from short stories on up to Fong novels. With the emphasis towards spoken languages, the language tab, records, and lec- tures are becoming increasingly useful in the attempt to get the student to write and speak extemporaneously while thinking directly in terms of the lauguage. In order to improve the department this year two new teachers were added to the faculty. Mr. Joseph Theusing teaches the Latin courses, and Mr. Thomas Coates has been added to help in the instruction of the French language. Mr. Leslie Irwin, head of the department, and Mr. Peter Wachen, both French teachers, and Mr..McClarey, who instructs an interested few in German, round out the rest of the department. MR. THOMAS R. COATES Princeton A.B.

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