Exeter Township Senior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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A TASTE OF EUROPE Using Hal Day to show EHS that he's an Eagles fan. Mr. Ernes reads aloud to his class. The Foreign Language Department agrees with Goethe, Whoever does not know a foreign language does not know his own.” Frau Brown and new teacher Senora DelVecchio traveled to Spain in the spring with a group of students and visited such cities as Cordoba and Seville. Travelling to Italy, Mr. Ernes, Miss Steinberg. and a group of Lantin students spent Easter Sunday in Rome and sampled tartufos and pastries from many pasticerrias. Advanced classes spent four weeks with Mrs. Leininger in the home economics suite learning how to prepare foods of the appropriate country. Other methods used to broaden the scope of the language were the designing of Christmas cards in various languages and the showing of filmstrips and Guten Tag” films. Foreign language students learned the modern languages first hand by utilizing their vocabularies almost constantly in class to ask and answer questions. While the rest of the class finishes a class assignment, junior Cindy Hagan, having finished her work, takes time out to daydream. academics 21

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French witch Madame O joins junior Stacey Lee in celebrating Halloween during autumn's spirit days which rally teams to victory. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT. row . David D. Ernes, rowl. Carolyn E. Ortwein. Imelda P. DelVecchio. Chairperson Anna C. Brown. Spanish irregular verbs give Jennifer Weisman pause. 36 academics

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The health and well being of the student body concerned all. but special attention was devoted to it by several staff members in related fields. The juniors received physical and hearing tests, while all students received vision tests. Nurse Nancy Francis was joined by Dr. Kent Weaver in running physical examinations for each sport. Mrs. Francis also measured each senior for his graduating cap and gown between emergency situations. The physical education mimi-courses continued, with the addition of Fitness for Life, Tumbling, and Weight Training. Mrs. Teresa Fry rejoined the department two days a week for adaptive physical education. Sports Day and the choreography display were only part of one of the most innovative programs in the state. Required health classes, many taught in the new science wing, included the memorable childbirth film. Mandatory classroom driver education instruction stressed knowledge, safety, common sense, and basic skills. Over 170 students received behind-the-wheel time to add to their viewing of Signal 30. Continuing her physical activities after class, soph Gloria Garber runs cross country. While members of the pinney team attack her position. Kelly Pieja looks for a classmate to lob the ball forward for a goal during Touch hootball class. academics