Highland Park High School - Albadome Yearbook (Highland Park, NJ)

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MARJORIE DEAN AB Barnard College A M Columbla Teachers College ELLEN FILEAN B A State Unnersnty of Iowa M A Columbia Unlversxty GILBERTA WALLACE B A S5 racuse UHIVCYSICY IN THE language department, offer mg two years of German, three of French, and four of Latm, the dlf ference ln the way these three lan guages are taught lS due to the dnf ferences Ill thenr uses Slnce no one needs the ab1l1ty to converse easlly IH pure Cxceronlan Latm, the greatest emphasls IS placed upon translatnon ll'1tO Englnsh, none on conversatxon the Latm course taught by Mnss Fllean, by emphasnzmg readlng, en ables students to read Caesar Cxcero, and Vergnl rn only sllghtly shortened form However, an understandmg of spoken French, even more than of spoken German, IS deslrable because of excellent French movxes A read mg knowledge of German IS also 1m portant, partlcularly to future scnen tlsts Mlss Dean IS the German teacher, Mlss Wallace the French rn structor Mlss Katherme Lyons also teaches first year French LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT l Pugr Tm I V Y ' - .- X l . . . Y 1 as in the other two languages. Thus M ma - - 1 3 I s 1, s ., . y . 0 . . . ., - s 1, V ' '

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As THE only aeademlc subject re qulred of every student ewery year Engllsh should be fam1l1ar to all Un der the guldance of Nhss Lou Bunce department head thls course IS de sxgned to prov1de each student wnth a thorough foundatlon 1n Engllsh for college buslness or SOCICIY Mr Ward Ehrenfeld stresses 1n hns freshman classes vocabulary, letter wrxtlng and the Hblllfy to dlscuss books mtellxgently Mnss Wnlma ohnsons sophomore classes recexve a good groundmg nn grammar and an appreclatxon of anelent elassncs and modern wrntmgs The junlors under the tutelage of MISS Grace Welker, go further 1nto the mechan 1Cs of grammar, study Amerlean llterature and do a great deal of ere at1ve Wflflng and publlc speakmg For the sen1or years, MISS Bunce cor relates all the grammar Wfltlng, and llterature learned and goes lnto these subjects much more deeply The ma1n emphas1s IS land on a term thesns based on Engllsh llteraturt These mann objectn es, plus mter estmg class projects round out a well balanced and serxlceable course LULL P BLNCE A B Goucher College Ed N1 Harv 1rd Colltge WARD EI-IRENFELD BS In Ed Rutgers Columbn Colltgt XX II NIA IOHNSON Ph B Lnlvtrsntx f Wnsconsnn X1 A C olumbn Lmxtrslts GRACE WELKER BS In Ed Unntrsltx of NINSOLIFI Nl A C0lLlI'l1bll Lnntrsntx ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Pu qc Niue

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-'fi '-.sf ,ie MUSH28 CONDIT ATKINSON New ersey Law School Certnficate of Niusnc at Rutgers LE HOAGLAND Pennsy lxama School 'viustum of Industrnal Art KATHERINE LYONS Trenton Normal School BS Columbia Teachers College 1de'l l ART DEPARTMENT THERE ARE certaln departments of the school curriculum whlch are ac tually mdlspensable to thelr students and the school as a whole Two such departments are those of Art and Mus1c The Art Department 1n ad d1t1on to 1ts regular courses, works through the Stagecraft Club and other groups to provlde all scenery for school productxons and decora tlons for school dances The Mus1c Department also does more than IIS hare toward axdmg ID the school actlvltles The mam achlevement m thls field for the past year was thc memorable operetta The Mnkado but thls was by no means its only work A svcty volce Glee Club, the gamzed band have all part1c1pated ln several programs The Concert SCYICS featurmg professlonal musl clans was a new and successful ndea for thns year A Jomt offermg of the two departments Whlch proved an even greater success than that of former years was the annual Chrlst mas Program of muslc and tableaufc Page Elm cn .XI I . . Q , - 1 , ' - ' 1 U S s . 7 ff ' Y, 7 T U.: E- B . I A .f, ,v:f1 , school orchestra, and the newly or- 'fifty ' I A . A jig? Y ' f ' ' -