La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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John Chalik ay Good Morning” in French to Judy Grandorf. Mr . Stevenson’s Spanish class enjoys rciding papers, magazines, and books in Spanish. through language about the Spanish festivals and holidays, and the con- versational aspect of the language is stressed in all classes. All the foreign language groups put a display in the showcase sometime during the year. At Christ- mastime the French and Spanish classes sing Christ- mas carols in their respective languages through the halls of LPHS. Students, representing each foreign language, are sent every year to state contests. Conversational French, a one semester course, is taught in LPHS by Miss Dick. This year conversa- tional Spanish, another one semester course, was also available to the students. Mrs. Stevenson taught con- versational Spanish. Through the study of foreign languages we arc constantly becoming more aware of other peoples and their particular ways of life. A Jo Fran Griffis points to Terry Decker’ sweater, he points to the French translation of the word. Both are students in Miss Dick’s conversational French class. 11

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Rosalie Piasecki lead» her Latin class in verbal conjugation. We Secern 'Jamiiar With Other Pecple Jean Magnuson checks her declension of the Latin noun spear.’’ Around LPHS a student has the opportunity of taking the foreign language of his interest. A choice of three foreign languages is offered. In Miss Horne’s or Miss Hittle’s room may be heard famous Latin phrases. Four years of Latin may be taken in high school. During the first year, one learns the declen- sions and words. In the second year Caesar is taught, and in the third and fourth years Cicero and Virgil are taught. C'cst si bon may be heard from one of Miss Dick’s French classes. During the first year of French, students learn the common French words, songs, and also stories. In the second year the student learns to converse in French. Mrs. Stevenson may be heard saying Buenos dias to her Spanish classes. Verb forms and common words are taught in the first year and an advanced vocabu- lary is taught in the second year. The students learn 10

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Backing up cautiously, Boh Smith checks the surrounding area. Richard Williams scales the rope in gym class. JfW phifMcai irum i' Kenny Bender points out the familiar bones of the body to Joyce Gugliclmetti. 12 Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, alias Tom Grosser and Roger Chesney, search for a solution in The Case of the Missing Lung.