Garinger High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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English Expands Experience Wtijl a»ur opfM-lSuut f»r w ' .ii 9 m i h V h ? Mr. Ray Alston Mr. Gilbert Ballance Miss Mary Balle Miss Leonora Broughton Mrs. Ruby Caldwell Miss Carolyn Dean Mrs. Faye Deese Mrs. Jeanne Fitzsimmons Mrs. Mary Fort Mrs. Grace Flail Miss Suanne Haney Mr. Harold Hood 22 mm

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Mrs. Mildred Morrison Mrs. Sarah Parrish “But I am a slow reader, Mrs. Garner!” . Mr. McMullan also likes to read. Now THIS is the way a library should be. 21

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Miss JoAnn Kirsh Miss Helen MacManus Miss Pauline Owens Miss Ann Peacock Miss Philecta Reinhardt Mrs. Irene Travis Miss Gray Vincent Miss Sarah Wallace Mrs. Jean Withers Mrs. Imogene Yongue “An education does not consist of how many books you read, only how deeply you go into them — like a stream; if you widen it without deepening it, it stays shallow.” Although college book lists often appear to ex¬ press the concept of a wide stream, it is the devoted purpose of the English courses at Garinger to deepen, as well as widen it, at its beginning, middle and end. At its source, the stream offers Greek tragedy and Homeric adventure, both seasoned with applied mythology. As the waters sweep onward, the current increases into contemporary novels by Golding, Hem¬ ingway and Steinbeck. Toward the middle, the waters arc wide into the cycle of American literature, flowing over works by Hawthorne, Poe and Melville. Continually deepening with intensive reading, disc ussion and ex¬ pository departures, this education runs on into re¬ search and experience in style analysis. It is towards the end that the stream runs rapidly and the snags are most frequent and sharp. The studies 3re of man’s nature as expressed in his writings on tragedy, comedy, satire and the Utopian desire. Shake¬ spearean undercurrents line the waters which encom¬ pass Huxley and Swift, Shaw and Chaucer, as well as a remnant of Sophocles. The concern is for a deeper understanding of man, his actions and his reactions, as portrayed in skillfully constructed works by authors who have reigned supreme for just such expoundings as MacBeth, Brave New World, and Canterbury Tales. In the end, this education flows out to widen and deepen the river of life. Being head of the English Department does cause headaches.