East High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Dedication Using the bridge of communication arts, this teacher has developed a teaching style in which a friendly teacher-pupil relationship exists. An East High graduate, he received his bachelor's degree from Gannon College and his master's degree in English from Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the faculty at East in 1950, he taught briefly at Roosevelt and Memorial Junior High Schools. As a teacher of communication arts, he has worked with senior high students, including those in the honors and advanced placement classes. In addition he has acted as a cooperating teacher for several student teachers from Alliance and Gannon Colleges. For the past four years he has been chairman of the English Department and is in charge of the Book Room. He has served on the English curriculum revision committee in addition to such school committees as the Commencement, the banquet, the school ring, and the National Honor Society committees. He is a gallon donor to the Community Blood Bank and among his many interests is the outdoors, especially camping and aquatic life. In recognition of his creative, individual approach to the teaching of the communication arts for the past twenty-five years, the Sunrise Staff gratefully dedicates the 1974 edition of the Sunrise to John W. Peplinski.