Haddon Heights High School - Garneteer Yearbook (Haddon Heights, NJ)

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WILLIAM L. CONNORS West Chester State College .. Intramural Soccer Cnow new teamj, LOUISE G. MAPP Pennsylvania State University, B.A, Teachers College, Columbia University . . . University of Puerto Rico, Escuela Spanish Club. ,- 1 If ff 'gl -' f L' 51 ,. 3, g, . gag: nigh.. ,:i?.'2 t fAkf4UHQ-f!taqggg'g:,mwi+'f. gft,,.g,4, .- kv f ' ' 4 ' f-.L+ f ' KVM wr . VI' f S if t 1 'F 3 at l BLANCHE M. BOU . .. Hunter College, BA. ... Spanish Club. l 5 Wz'r tratamos plus gravz'us. As travel becomes easier and international relations more important, our foreign language department moves ahead to meet modern needs. This year the department became quadri- lingual with the addition of German to the curriculum. Now students can progress from beginning grammar exercises to literature study with four years of Spanish, French, German, or Latin. Modern language teachers now stress oral and visual methods in their teaching, hoping to encourage Fluency. Mrs. Troutman and Miss Stites teach German with the help of Audio-Lingual materials, which utilize dialogues and records, and the Spanish department plans to convert to A-LM next year. The French section added new records Cin French naturelmentj and now has access to the Camden County film library. We do not mean to slight the Latin department, but we can report no progress. To quote Miss Stites, Latin hasn't changed in a hundred years. l 1 i 1 1

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EDNA GRITZUK . .. Syracuse University, B.A. Handbook. x - f LINDA HOFBAUER ... Skidmore College, A.B. Literature makes us think, makes us wonder, makes usjeel more deepbzf' The approach to English from time immemorial has been a chronological dissection of literature from ancient to modern times. This method of study has had limitations in that it has focused the attention more on archaic styles than on means of creative expression today. Due to the progressive efforts ofthe department's chairman, Mrs. Martha Dederich, the trend in 3HS is now an attempt to adapt English study to a humanities approach. Other creative art forms are being incorporated into the courses in the hope of promoting more vivid self- expression. One concrete result of the new thinking has been the publication of a literary magazine. The selections included MARGARET ELIZABETH WESTERMAIER Douglass College, BA. . . . University of Pennsylvania . . . Scribe Literary Advisor . . . Quill and Scroll Society advisor. essays, poems, short stories and ballads chosen on a competi- tive basis, from all English and creative writing classes. Art students illustrated the magazine utilizing their own interpre- tations. Another highlight was the series of john F. Kennedy Memorial Lectures. Four distinguished speakers discussed varying topics pertaining to the humanities-among them philosophy, poetry, and fiction. Selected classes attended the lectures which applied to their basic paths of study. Audio-visual aids alleviated the routine classroom sessions by adding some spice to Homer and Shakespeare. BAYARD B. LEARY Temple University, B.A. Yale University M.F.A. Assembly Committee.

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MARY R. BOTTORF Wilson College, A.B. Pennsylva- nia State University A.F.S. Committee and Club French Club, PIA M. TROUTMAN Chestnut Hill College Middlebury College . . . Rutgers of South Jersey. JANE E. STITES . .. Gettysburg College, A.B. University of Pennsyl- vania . .. Latin Club.