Great Neck South High School - Vista Yearbook (Great Neck, NY)

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Language Courses Enrollment in foreign language courses reached an all-time high as a greater number of students went on to a fourth year of lan- guage study. For the first time, pupils who qualified took an advanced placement course in French. Under Dr. Louise Scheer, chairman, the Foreign Language Department continued use of the latest teaching technique, the audio-lingual approach. The use of tapes (prepared by natives of France, Spain, and Germany) helped to improve language skills. This year's senior class was the first to complete language courses using the Chilton-Didier method introduced five years ago. Because teaching methods change so rapidly, the foreign language faculty met daily to dis- cuss implementation of new methods and improvements in the curriculum. An up-to-date teachers' library familiarized educators with the latest devel- opments in their field. For the first time, students in advanced French courses received Le Petit Larrouse, an authorita- tive, illustrated dictionary. Mr. Samuel .iskind Mr. John Satels Mi Nancy Rosado Mi Janet Mealy 19 Dr. Vladimir Rus Mi Rina Sciaky

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More Pupils In Fourth Year I)r. l ouise Scheer, chairman Mrs. I'rsula Beltran Dr. Maria Omeltchenko Mrs. Jacqueline Menage Mr. Ray Mitchell 18

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Mr. Bernard Borevsoff, chairman, directs Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Theatre South’s Fall 1966 offering. 20 Miss Clare Feldman Speech Department Offers New Course For Foreign Students For students who are native speakers of foreign lan- guages and have little or no command of English, the Speech Department added English as a Second Language to its conventional offerings in dramatics, radio workshop, theater arts and speech. Two special part-time teachers and selected students from the Speech in Public Life course gave small-group and tutorial instruction to these students. Participates, who were allowed to drop some regular courses in order to receive the instruction, often worked in the school system’s new mobile classroom. The program is an extension of the work done in speech therapy. Under Department Chairman Bernard Boressoff, the department instituted a sequence three years ago which participating seniors completed this year.