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

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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.

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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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E! ll Q!! f! at ' 5 'Q n-.i i ff. , . M ' . ' Q. V - f-ss Hs. 2, 5 W, N I ., I . . .. x 4 43. .. 1 I gs Ruth Verwoert, James Floyd, Susan Sullivan, and James Chambers ex- Miss Irene. M' Ferguson: B54 Aquinas amine a slide tor viewing under the microscope, Bugs, slugs, and ughs, all these are an essential part of the biology class. Actually, biology is the study of living things. It is here that we learn to recognize the stomach of a startish on sight. The first semester was comparatively mild, however, in the second semester, we rolled up our sleeves and dug in-to the frogs. As if the smells in this class weren't re- pulsive enough, the chemistry class also insisted upon leaving behind their acrid odors. Mr. Jay Vanderveen: A.B,, Calvin College, University of Michigan. College. Biology, sponsors Senior Y-Teens. CIGHCE Paul Riewald, Tom a physics experime In general science, the students come in contact with sound waves, ocean waves, and permanent waves. The latter being studied when an ultraviolet light was used to detect the presence of bleach in human hair. Lift pump, force pump, and centrifugal force kept these students in a spin. At the end of the year, they touched up- on the essentials of biology, which is re- quired of those geniuses that are lucky enough to pass general science the first time around. Th0mPS0H, Gordon Konyndyk and David Crow perform nt on the heat ot vaporization. NN-Z ggi I i -I