East High School - Echoes Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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German Club Wiens, Kathryn, spanish Club BON APETITEH, a French game, amuses Suzie VanSlyke, Beverly Doll, Joyce Moore, Linda Northcutt, and julie Waskiewicz, all '65, while they learn to improve their command of the language. Leaper, Mildred, B.A. Scholarship Committee, French Club Lohrenz, Blanche, M.A. Latin Club Stratton, Angela, MA. Spanish Club Wallis, Ray, M.A. M.S. X X LATIN TAPE RECORDERS, the only ones in the city, bring the dead language alive to listeners Don Blythe, ,67, and Wayne Wagner, '67. 17 V: 7 In s f. ' f x

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Foreign Language- Communicating To Understand Acquiring the ability to understand, speak, Auer Mary Lou B.S. read, and write a foreign language is the goal Sophomore Class, French Club of East's French, German, Latin, and Spanish students. Because of more extensive travel in the world, and increasing opportunities in careers requiring knowledge of foreign lan- guage, today's students realize a growing need fs., to know a second language. For these reasons, emphasis now is being placed on the con- versational rather than the literary aspects of the language. Three speech laboratories pro- vide listening and oral practice for the entire class simultaneously. V - L I . ff ,XVA my f. ,, 1 'fn ' A-'LA ' -- 2.-li..t.xn4w: W 'f' fi: '- , I ., , First year students study the structure and Huff, Carolyn jean, vocabulary of the language. Second, third, and B A fourth year students study the customs of the Future TCHCWYS Assofialifm- . . . German Club country and strive to increase their under- standing of the language. The principle objec- tive of this department is to provide adequate 2 background for further study in college or abroad. f NWI-IO'S BLOWING IN MY EARS? questions Mrs. glean I-Iuff as she listens to individual recitations given by students in one of the three language laboratories. LISTENING TO TAPED RECORDINGS of French, German, or Span- ish speakers discussing the textbook is one way students learn foreign languages more efhciently. V.

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ALLELUIA... sing the boys section of the mixed chorus in preparation for the annual fall festival. BLOWING A MELODY from Cam- elot, a Broadway musical, Lowell Hershey, '65, practices for the orchestra's fall concert. if s,.. Huffman, Mary, Hershey, jay, B.A. MS, Assembly Committee Department Head, Y-TCSHS Thompson, Kenneth, M.S.