Glynn Academy - High Tide Yearbook (Brunswick, GA)

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Barrier While Having a Whale of a Time LANGUAGE While the halls of the Prep Building will not actually echo forever with the sounds of students cn route to the language lab, both the halls and the sounds will be remem- bered. Only hours of practice in that lab will give the Span- ish student the ability to roll his r’s, and the French student will never be able to correctly combine the French “u” and “r” in that word-of-all-words, “rue.” In Latin it is the desire to read the orations of Cicero that drives the student through ablative absolutes and unwieldy indirect discourses. Madrid, Rome, and Paris become realities to the students who study their languages. With pen pals, records, tapes, and films, they absorb much of this culture, along with a pinch of wanderlust. A knowledge of the literature of a country is vital to an understanding of its people; hence, Glynn’s linguists read such classics as Don Quixote, Les Miserables, and Caesar’s Commentaries. Projects range from working models of ancient ballistas to papers on the modern Frenchman. The art and philosophy of foreign ways of life become familiar, rounding out a most complete study. Voila! MR. LOUIS WALTON University of Mississippi; BA, Delta State College; French and English; Entre Nous sponsor. fit MRS. MARIE WHITNEY BA, Western Carolina College; Spanish I and II; PAL sponsor. MR. LARRY N. NOLAND St. Charles College; BS, Louisiana State University; Latin I, II, and III; Latin Club sponsor. 17

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Linguists Break Language LIBRARY AND STUDY HALL MISS SARA STEPHENS BS, Jacksonville Stale College; MA, Georgia Peabody College; Librarian. MISS IRMA WILLIS MLS, Peabody College; Librarian. MRS. W. E. RAYBURN Study Hall. 16 An air of quiet busyness pervades the library. In pn effort to find a place to study amid the rush and roar of a busy high school, students sooner or later wander into the library, there to discover a haven for harried scholars. In this calm atmosphere reports and term papers are started almost painlessly, and finished most gratefully. A course in library science is offered as a half-unit, which supplies a bevy of library assistants who are always around to be of help. If the quiet is ever desecrated by an unwary student, the librarians, Miss Willis and Miss Stephens, soon take steps to restore the silence. Study Hall is considered by some as the saving grace’of many Glynn students who are pressed for time. Here they are able to catch up on homework and last-minute studying for upcoming tests. MRS. JOYCE HIGHT Marion College; Study Hall.

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Scholars Are Concerned With Controversial MR. HAROLD E. JENNINGS BS, Middle Tennessee State Univ.; MA, George Peabody College; American History and Anthropology; Student Council Adviser. ■ w V---------------- mrs. w. f. McDonald BA, Univ. of Ga.; American Government and Psychology; in charge of girls’ clinic, absentees. While many students know nothing about certain subjects, Glynn Academy’s powerful social studies department in- sures a thorough understanding of the history of America, from colonial days to these of the Great Society. Since both past and current events are often debatable, a liberal spectrum of interpretation is allowed the student. In the spring the department brings its various branches together in the annual social science fair, culminating another year of studies. This is an important department, for if any one can keep the fabric of interpretation intact, it will be those who dare to open their minds to an honest evaluation of world events. MR. MITCHELL L. BARRETT BS, Cumberland College; World Geography. 18 MR. DONALD E. HIGHT BS, Marion College; Univ. of Ga.; Indiana Univ.; Ball State College; American History' and Twentieth Century Problems; IRC sponsor, head of social studies department, director of social science fair.