Lyons Township High School - Tabulae Yearbook (La Grange, IL)

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allows all freshmen fo elecf a modern language Marie Meyer Frank Pelronailis Eva Pring Lillian Purlcyf Florence Rafherl' Charlo'He Schwariz Byron Tousignani German Russian Counselor Spanish German Spanish Spanish Lalin Counselor Having maslered lhe iurnlole of Tapes, earphones, and buH'ons in her language lab boolh, 'lhls Spanish sludenl compares her own pronuncialion wilh Thar of an experl. Barbara Unna Doroihy Walker German Spanish 'ms Jane Wilson Joseph Zdenelc Larin French. Spanish 21

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Eloise Birney Chairman, Language Deparfmenf Lafin Marge Florio Ellouise Ford Spanish French Policy innovafion Marguerife Carnal Consfance Spanish Comiskey French, Spanish This year, for fhe firsf fime, fhe Language Deparfmenl permiffed freshmen fo enroll in lan- guage courses formerly offered only fo sophomores and upperclassmen. This change allowed more exfensive sfucly in a parficular language and pro- vided each sfudeni' wifh a beffer background for college. A combinafion of oral drills, fape record- ings, dialogues, and fhe use of fhe language lalo helped fo develop each sfudenf's conversafional fluency. Grammar lessons emphasized and supple- menfed grammafical maferial infroduced in oral work. As fhe pupils acquired skill in a specific language, fhey became familiar wifh fhe culfure of fhe foreign counfry. This diversified paffern of insfrucfion mofivafed fhe language sfudenfs foward higher achievemenf. Jean Guldager Wayne Alberl' Hoch Richard KoHler Alice Loffredo Frances Luiz Irma Mafouselr Spanish Hammerlund German Spanish French French Spanish Lahn

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Deparfmenf adds Team-Teaching aT Soufh Harold BiTTing Chairman, Social Siudies DeparTmenT STriving for a more exiensive coverage of The causes and effecfs of imporTanT hisforical evenfs. The Social STudies DeparTmenT exTended iTs suc- cessful Team-Teaching program To world hisTory classes aT souTh campus This year. Each combined class, ofTen including as many as sixTy-five sTudenTs, was offered various films -and lecfures, while indi- vidual sTudenis prepared research proiecTs. A furiher advancemenT of The deparTmenT was The insTiTuTion of an open door policy for American hisTory courses, which permiTTed The enrollmenf of any iunior or senior. The inevifable resulfs were an unusually large enrollmenf and a consequenf lack of insTrucTors. To solve These prob- lems. many soufh campus Teachers were enlisfed To aid The overburdened norTh campus faculfy. The deparTmenT hoped ThaT This year would be a Transifion To a leveling-off poinT in fuTure enroll- menf, since many seniors would already have com- pleTed American hisfory in Their iunior year. John ATTig James Blaha Edward Brogly Thomas Davis Linda Diamond RcberT Edie French Flynn Counselor David Franklin Barbara Garber David Gianuzzi Donald Haas ScoTT HamilTon Lewis Hankenson James Hemenway Counselor Counselor