Delta Secondary School - Lampadion Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Mathematics Fritz Viola John Hitchens William Bell Marie Jacobs Ed Bracken Zena Miller Edward Graff Harry Traini a(x2tbxi-c.)=ar(x-hA) +4acJb l:a(xi- b ) 4ac-b ° a ■ 2a 4a J 25 4

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Art ART is a think-for-yourself subject. The theories of such things as colour and perspective and the tech- niques of handling certain media and materials are taught but these are merely tools like the pencils and brushes. It is when the student uses these tools to ex- press himself that Art comes into being. The main measure of success is original creative thought not technical quality alone. Carman Harrison Art and Music Music The Delta Music program is designed to provide effective training for music students whether their aims are to become professional musicians, teachers of music, orchestral players, composers and arrangers, or educated listeners of music for per- sonal enjoyment. Instruction is provided on woodwind, brass, percussion, and string bass beginning at Grade 9 and continuing to the end of Grade 12. Instruments are provided by the Board of Education for the City of Hamilton. Although our music students in Grade 9 have never played their chosen instruments before, most of them qualify for the school band by the end of their first year. The Delta Concert Band, one of the most active groups in the school, is formed from proficient music students and is open, by audition, to oth er students in the school. Its repertoire ranges widely and includes major works for concert band. The band has travelled extensively having visited Edmonton in 1967 and plans a tour of Nova Scotia this spring. The music presented by Delta over the years has been of high standard. We have been fortunate to have men of out- standing ability - Mr. Howard LeRoy, Mr. Joseph Ward - directing the program. Our present music director Mr. Murray Black and his assistant, Mrs. Marie Jacobs, are dedicated to maintaining Delta ' s fine reputation in this field. Murray Black

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7 GORDON ALLISON WILLIAM CHILD EDWARD COLE KEN DAVIDGE PHILIP DEROO JOHN KILABERTO MARGRET HARVEY SYLVIA LENNON English KATHLEEN MATHESON GAIL RUSNELL ELSIE THORN DONALD THORNE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT: Our aim has always been, and continues to be, to make our pupils as literate as possible. That is we try to teach them to write simply, clearly, and cor- rectly; and we try to introduce them to a variety of literature during their four-year stay at DELTA. Last spring our grade 11, 5-year classes were given an op- portunity to choose any four of six options in their English lit- erature programme. This plan was put into effect this fall. The choices were: two Shakespearean tragedies, three novels of the supernatural, three modern plays, modern short prose, twent- ieth-century poetry, and a survey of English poetry. The year is divided into four quarters, and so four times a year the pupils move to a new section of work, often having four different tea- chers, this is an experiment allowing the pupils some choice in pursuit of their special interests in English literature. The other grades continue in the traditional fashion, but perhaps the winds of change will strike them in the future.