Lee High School - Echo Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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01. Ai Mrs. Grace VanDomelen: A,B.p Hope Col- lege. English Ligemw,-e' public Speaking, Bob Grunwell gives his book report before the English literature class sponsors Student Council, Future Teachers and Hall Monitors. speec qovennm nt Knock - knock - knock, no one is at the door, it is iust knees knocking together in speech class forthe first couple of weeks. Soon the students become accustomed to speaking before the class and begin to prepare for spring forensics and dramatics. Bob Klok, Judy Johnson, and Roy De Boer review the counties in the state of Michigan. Ding, Ding, Ding! Oh dear! Someone was not behaving himself in Mrs. Osterink's civics class. The main purpose of eighth grade civics is to give eighth graders an introduction to government, American style. Along with this comes a generous taste of homework and memorization. Mrs. Alice Osterink: A.B., Calvin College. 8th grade history, civics and English.

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1 ..... . Y'5e -5... x PX Seated: Mr. Gabriel Quakkelaar, Treasurer, Mr. Peter Waalkes, President, Mr. Robert Schellenberg, Secretary. Standing: Mr. Morris Kronemeyer, Trustee, Mr. John Han- kamp, Trustee, Mr. lloyd Fry, Superintendent. Beano of eoucatlon Front Row: Mrs. Herman Kunnen, 2nd Vice Presidentp Mrs. Henry Kamrcdt, Secretory, Mr. Peter Van Doorn, Treasurer. Back Row: Mrs. Walter Robson, lst Vice President, Mr. John Lenger, President, Mrs. Bruce Satterla, Publicity Chairman, Mr. Jack Mc Kindley, Director, Mrs. Don Johnson, Historian. DIA. sz 1 4 . vw'- BAHC BGGSIIGRS Mrs. Philip De Heer, Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ernest Forgette, Corresponding Secre- tary: Mrs. C.V. Crow, President, Mrs. James Korf, Treasurer, Mrs. Dale Watts, Vice President.

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Miss Joanne lanahan: A.B.p Aquinas Col lege, English, English Literature, Latin sponsors Latin Club and 8th grade Y-Teens. Miss Esther Seymer: B.S., Western Michi- gan University. English. as . www Ann ' ,gr my L LX ,I language Ubi ignis est? l don't know where the fire is, but I think I hear Nero fiddling! Most of the students who survived the mid- Basic to all English classes are the parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adiectives, verbs, and . . . ah . . semester exams were thoroughly exhausted by the time they finished fighting their way through Caesar's Gaullic Wars. The class had to coniugate, translate and decline - and most of the grades did. In all serious- ness, Latin does help the student gain a better understanding of the English language. The Latin class goes through vocabulary drills. anyway there are eight. We learn never to consciously split an infinitive and that a preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with. Three years of English are required at Lee.