John Adams High School - Album Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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1 A Four years of English, a little Warriner's, and a test book M entrance exams, Prepares ary Lou Alberts and Sue Valentine for college Students meet Dickens, Webster, Wcurriner. Grammar and literature make up an Adams glish course. Many hours are spent learning :l reviewing the Whys and wheres of the comma. :tle Warriner's Handbook is the English students' wleg Webster and Bergen Evans are also authors check. Diagnostic tests mark progress. Writing puts grammar rules into practice. ok reports, themes, and term papers are usual ignments. In four years, students study the Qlwmkwutww -qv, English works, Great Expectations, Silas Marner, and Shakespeares Tragedies. Juniors study Ameri- can literature from early journals to The Scarlet Letter to Hemingway's novels. Seniors examine authorls concepts. Oratorical ability is also devel- oped. English urges students to be critical, original, and imaginative. Teachers encourage students to THINK. 'ading the New York Times, Al From finds information T0 calm her nerves, Sue Gobdel reads aloud her report back up the theories which he plans to present in on Shakespearean drama. Her classmates listen for errors speech. 8

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Shaping dough into a firm roll, Sheila Hoffman promises Patty Aaron a cookie within the hour. Homemakers follow directions, gain know. Learning is doing , but Suzanne Boggs is not entirely alorm. She relies on Miss Frey's basting directions. From salad through dessert cooking students follow the recipe. They buy the ingredients, shop- ping for the best bargains. Students learn that housekeeping is more than washing dishes and dusting. They plan homes and make budgets to cover all family expenses. Child care is also included in this course. HOME ECONOMICS Knowing some day they will be homemakers, many girls take home economics courses. They cut financial corners by making their own clothes. After the difficlut choice, what to make, the girls tit the pattern, straighten the material, and pin the pieces to the cloth, all these steps are taken before the cloth is even cut. Beginners sew simple dresses while advanced seamstresses make suits. rn. if '-4 Nancy Horvath is pleased with her lightly-browned dinner rolls.

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New language lab helps perfect accents. Pantomining the myth of Midus, Sue Thompson, the bar- ber, is about to discover the secret, donkey ears! She un- winds the Turbin of Toga-clad King Midus, alias Sue Val- entine. A stubborn burro gives two Spanish students trouble to the amusement of the PTA audience. Marc Volland, Swiss foreign exchange student, portrays a Frenchman in the skit for the PTA. Changes overhauled the language department this year. Mr. Carroll's famous Valeta dismissed classes from 1213 Miss Kaczmarek, Senorita Law, and Mr. Mutti also moved to new rooms. German was offered, but the bigest surprise of all was the language laboratory. Entering listening booths, students heard records in French or Spanish. Imi- tating the pronunciation, they recorded their voices which they could later analyze. Overcoming grammar required the concentra- tion of 1st and 2nd year students. Advanced lin- guists translated books and conversed in their respective languages. Spanish students practiced their book learning in skits. They dressed in pon- chos and sombreros to provide the South of the Border mood. Classes learned about the customs of the country by celebrating its holidays. In honor of the god Satan, Latin classes celebrated the ancient Roman Saturnalia. Some language students entered the state language contests. -,RWM if Two French students listen to the disk which they have just cut in the language laboratory.