Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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the first day of school Confused students pour into the principo1's office for schedule chgriges on the first dgy of school. With cr big smile, William Eynon gives his Ameri- can government class the first assignment. Tom Downs tries to control Gerhard Boleri, Iudy Lune, Carl Conrad, cmd Kris Knepper and to get the first Ngtiongl Honor meeting under Way.

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The bell rings and the halls are filled as the students rush throuqh their first days ot school. September 8-the end of summer-was a humid, swelterinq day when hundreds of Fostoria students returned to school. The halls of FHS buzzed with ex- citement as the tirst day was torn from the calendar of more than 180 days-days when summer tans would tade, the swimming pool be drained, and the tennis courts vacatedg days when assignments would evolve into tests, and then into exams. But on Septem- ber 8, FHS students had few worriesg the whole year was ahead. x 10

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Ioyce Cushman: English HI, French II: Y-Teen adviser. Iessie Ridge: English H. Dorothy Shine: English I 7 Dean of Girls, Y-Teen ad- viser. FHS English makes a full schedule The English instructors of FHS continued to set high scholastic standards for English students. Realizing the importance placed on an informed and creative student body within recent years, the depart- ment increased its emphasis on a Wide, literary background and on acceptable composition. Beginning in the freshman year, an EHS student learns basic grammar. For the first time he becomes systematically acquainted with the short stories, poetry, plays and novels of a variety oi authors. The student practices elementary critical anaylsis on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and The Odyssey ot l-lomer. As a sophomore the student continues to work with English gram- mar and to supplement his reading background. Tennyson's ldylls oi the King is the major literary Work studied in the second year. ln the third year of high school, an EHS student begins a rigorous composition course. To coincide with the required American history course, the development of American literature is traced from jeffer- son's Declaration of Independence to the short stories of Hemingway. The senior student concentrates on English literature and advanced composition. He studies contributions of English Writers from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton to the modern poetry of T. S. Eliot. Outside reading is encouraged: one book report each six Weeks is required. The senior English course is designed especially to prepare college- bound students. Daryl Saldausky becomes Thom- as Iefierson as he delivers the Declaration of Independence before his junior English class. Memorization is required of most juniors throughout the year.