Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Sidman, PA)

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Smiling. Waller Celmer explains the American Cultures assignment to Terry Logue. Mr. Celmer is also the Ranger golf coach Above During a sophomore American Cultures class Victor Balog outlines some important material for an upcoming test. Mr. Balog also teaches POD Right: Fred Vespa pauses briefly after dictating some supplementary material to his World Cultures class Mr. Vespa’s extracurricular activities include director of se- nior and junior plays as well as the athletic trainer for all Ranger sports. 24

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Spanish Honor Society advisor Haul Robinson jokingly explains a word to Dave Adams as Bernadette Aliquo looks on. Much Practice, A Requisite “Learning a foreign language is not only a mental activity, but a physical one. It is a little like learn- ing to play the piano or learning to hit a baseball It requires a great deal of practice (Paul Robinson) Spanish and German teachers made use of headsets and tape re- corder console in familiarizing stu- dents with the special phonetic sounds of the foreign language. Visual aids in the form of charts, films, and maps proved valuable assets to the foreign language teachers. Hans Ruddcck, who leaches German I and li. adjusts the control hoard which controls the individual student headsets.

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Social Studies Department Plans for Modular Courses Social studies teachers initiated plans for modular courses, their department’s answer to the English mini-courses. At after-school meet- ings, committee members of the de- partment formulated, organized, and designed 24 twelve-week courses which are to be implement- ed in the 1974-75 school term. Stu- dents will have at least two choices in each of the three divisions during their high school years. Utilizing results from a survey, teachers tried to incorporate student wishes into the new social studies curriculum. “History, like any other course, should be more practical, and a stu- dent should be able to use that material in his everyday living. (Mr. Victor Balog) In the modular set-up. the teachers will take a more matter-of-fact approach to infor- mation covered by the traditional method, supplementing it with de- tails on new aspects of history. This newly devised program will also offer several courses dealing with the student and the law. Above Sara Marie Honadle checks Beth Hull’s World Cultures assignment, a map of Asia. Miss Honadle also teaches American Cultures and is the adv isor of the National Honor Societv Left: Handing out the U.S. News, a magazine of current events used in his POD classes, is social studies chairman Anthony Turchetta. who likewise teaches sociology and philosophy 25