George Rogers Clark High School - Powder Horn Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Students widen aware¬ ness through. English MR. DAVID TALABAY . . . B.A., Indiana University . . . Junior English ... Sophomore Class, Intramural Sports Sponsor .. . third year at Clark. Mrs. Huber cries, Save those penniesl as she adds to the room ' s collection of paperback books. MR. GEORGE MUIR . . . B.S., Eastern Illinois University, M.S., University of Illinois . . . Freshman English, Commu¬ nications . . . Pioneer News and Powder Horn Advisor. . . Fifteenth year at Clark. On trial this year, an open reading lab presented Clark students with the oppor¬ tunity to increase their reading skills. Students were permitted to take advan¬ tage of reading lab facilities during iunch hours and study halls when no regular classes were scheduled. Juniors concentrated on the American scene in English. Transcendentalism and Henry David Thoreau, witchcraft and Ar¬ thur Miller, and satire, local color, witty humor and Mark Twain, were the distinc¬ tive and initial ingrediants in the collage studied. 1984 in 1970? Reading George Or¬ well ' s 1984 and William Shakespeare ' s Macbeth, students envisioned the past as well as the future. Sixth hour Senior En¬ glish students discussed patriotism and wrote a sequence used in The Fall Choral Concert. A Saturday lost in the jungle of books for a term paper due in a week was a common situation to English students throughout the year, as themes and term papers were required for all classes. Paperbacks stashed in back pockets were common. MRS. CAROL HUBER . . . B.S., M.A., Indiana Univer¬ sity . . . Basic and Developmental Reading . . . Read¬ ing Club Sponsor... ninth year at Clark.