Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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Phil Walker, Rita Overturf, and Keith Kruk compare Latin notes. Tape recorders help French and Spanish students improve their speaking techniques. S. Engstrom and J. Krull use the recording ap¬ paratus, as P. Struebig learns how to use it.

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for future jobs their own homes. Male CPHS’ers are not idle either. While the girls learn culinary arts and dressmak¬ ing, the boys make wood articles and learn how to weld, fix a car, or sketch their dream houses. They also learn how to fix all kinds of machines and gain the basic knowledge of the soil. The some day breadwinners will be able to seek professions or do odd jobs around their own homes through their train¬ ing at the Hub City high school. Jean Cooke sews on a dress as Mary Fran Glassford presses a seam in senior home economics class. Jane Pugh and Heather Stacks bake a cake in a first year home economics class.

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Besides Greek, familiar to all students, GPHS also offers courses in several other frequently used foreign languages; Latin, Spanish, and French. Three years of Latin are taught in which students delve into works of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil. The intricate nuances of the French tongue seem to fascinate some and lure them on to three ye ars of also study. Spanish answers its stu¬ dents’ questions about its dark, exciting people; Conquistadores and Moors. To aid students of foreign language, a versatile set of equipment is available. Seven tape record¬ ers and thirty-six earphones are used for prac¬ ticing and detecting errors in speech. For additional practice and information there are two filmstrip projectors and two record players. Individual booths accommodate apparatus. Spanish students P. Vinnedge points out the place in Mexico she ' d like to visit to classmate B. Wagner. junior linguists S. Krestan and E. Enockson bone up on their French with the aid of “Match” magazines. 27