Linton High School - Lintonaire Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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0 EQ 0 0 PERSONAL TYPING Personal Typing is a half year, half unit course open to 10th, 11th, and 12th year students not in the Busi- ness Education Department. The course provides experi- ence in typing letters, manuscripts, outlines, and other projects of a personal-use nature. Knowledge of the keyboard and typing techniques are developed for accuracy and reasonable speed. Habits of neatness and accuracy are stressed. 4 BooKKEEP1NG II Bookkeeping II is an elective course including book- keeping, accounting, and a two-week period spent on the study of making out income tax forms. Primary emphasis is directed to the analysis of business trans- actions and financial information afforded thereby. This course gives the student some insight into the objectives of the course as taught in the first year of college. Miss Bucci helps Phyllis Cohen, set the margins on her type- writer in Personal Typing. ' Q The proper use of an adding machine is taught by Mr. Denofio. V

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is I-I ' Mrs. Klemm talks about the Berlin crises with some German I students I GERMAN I WIR LERNEN DEUTSCH. In German I the basic forms are acquired with emphasis on understanding and response in the language. A cultural reader about the Revolutionary Was hero General Steuben, a German- American, is introduced in the second semester. All stu- dents attend the audio active language laboratory once a week in addition to regular class work. Films in Ger- man about modern Germany are shown monthly. SPANISH III Spanish III class has several objectives. First, the stu- dents learn to speak and comprehend i the language fluently and accurately by hearing Spanish spoken in class and by hearing authentic Spanish tape recordings and two recordings of our exchange student, Maria del Carmen Micamas. Second, the students gain an apprecia- tion of Spanish literature by reading selected stories of outstanding authors and memorizing poetry. Third, the students acquaint themselves with the culture and life of Spain and the Spanish speaking countries. 66 A Spanish lab is directed by Miss Tipple.

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Qclwlostw NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ANTHOLOGY-ART OF YOUNG AMERICA Wendy Andrews, Kurt Stein and Judy Cunningham. ART AWARDS Art work of three Lintorl students was this year ac- cepted to be published in Art of Young America, an anthology. N.C.T.E. ENGLISH-ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS JoAnn Strom and Ruth Rotundo. NCTE The National Council of Teachers of English pre- sented Ruth Rotundo with a cerfificate for excellence in English under its annual English Achievement Awards competition. Jo Ann Strom was named runnerup in the same contest. They both were cited for excellence in writing performance and literary awareness. There were 436 winners and 436 runnersup inthe nation from over 5,800 nominees. NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS Anne Oja, Joyce Altieri and Ruth Ann Rotundo. NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS Three Linton seniors were named National Merit Semi-finalists as a result of superior performance on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The test was taken in March, 1961, by more than 15,000 high school students. sw I