Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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i ROBERT JOHNSON GETS help putting on his toga from Latin students Judy Cunningham and Marsha Hobin. FR ENCH FLASH CARDS aid first-level students Lou Ann Purnell, Ellen Washburn, and Diane Hinckley. Se elie le i | a) Students in a fourth-level Spanish class pre- sented a play they had read to the Spanish Club. For the first time, juniors as well as seniors par- ticipated in the fourth-level French class. This ad- dition was effected through a change in policy two years ago, which allowed ninth graders in level two. In a French culture unit, the fourth-level stu- dents read literature from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. First and second-level Latin students mastered basic sentence structures and word declensions and studied the Trojan War. Cicero’s orations and Ovid's poetry challenged the advanced Latin class- es. The five level-four students wrote term themes describing evidence of Vergil’s patriotism in his Aeneid. The inclusion of juniors in the fourth-level French class meant the possibility of adding an AP French course next year. During the spring semester, underclassmen interested in taking German in the ‘69-’70 school year completed survey forms.

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AP Spanish Students Give Original Play ¥ SECOND AND THIRD-LEVEL Latin students Kat O’Dwyer and Meg Majors find projects helpful. Saatirizing of famous public figures enlivened an original play, De Pequenas Mentes, written and performed by the 12 students in the Advanced Placement Spanish class. In place of a test on Spanish Nobel prizewinner Jacinto Benavente, these fifth-level students took stock characters from one of his plays and incor- porated them into their own dramatic creation. The AP course included an intensive study of ten Spanish and Latin-American authors, including four members of Spain’s famous literary group, the ‘Generation of ‘98. The Mexican movie “Dona Barbara,” adapted from a Latin-American novel, read by the AP class, entertained the students in February. Students in first and second-year Spanish and French classes conjugated the principal tenses of verbs and utilized the language lab to acquire a basic vocabulary from dialogues and oral drills. In third and fourth-level classes, students read short stories, plays, novels, and other literary genres. Third-year French students tackled Racine’s Phedre. On March 6, French students from. all four levels attended a performance of Phedre presented by a French traveling troupe at SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium. | 3 | i ; e FOURTH-LEVEL SPANISH students Renee Trahan, Webb Spradley, and Grady Butler present Mafana del Sol for the Spanish Club. 76

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78 MIKE MANTAS studies the techniques of clay-modeling in Mrs. Childress’ art class. TRYING TO ASSURE Julie LeVelle’s safety, choreographer Mr. Phil Johnson shows Tom Prejean, Don Fowler, Bobby Johnson and Buzz Boto how to balance her gracefully during a musical practice. Music, Art Departments Stress Patriotism For a contest sponsored by the Rotary Club, art students created posters depicting the theme of “World Peace Through World Understanding.” Expressing their impressions of daily experiences, art students worked with craypas, tempera, and charcoal. In a crafts unit, they carved figures from linoleum blocks. During the Christmas season, the orchestra per- formed for the staff of Parkland Hospital and for a vesper service at SMU’s Perkins Chapel. Partici- pating in a tribute to Abraham Lincoln on Febru- ary 14, the orchestra played patriotic songs of the Civil War era. To prepare for the University Interscholastic League Marching Contest in November, the High- lander band competed against 37 other high school bands in the L. D. Bell Hurst contest. During Thanks- giving, the band marched in the Great Balloon Parade in downtown Dallas. In addition to three traditional appearances, Lads and Lassies performed in the malls of One Main Place and the Northpark shopping center and for the women of Highland Park Presbyterian Church. The choir and orchestra combined their efforts in the presentation of Thomas Jefferson’s “Testament of Freedom” in February and the musical Carousel held March 19, 21, and 22.