Marinette High School - Whipurnette Yearbook (Marinette, WI)

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Rebecca Hammes, Carlyle Dewey, and Harry White look absorbed as they translate their Spanish. Languages Marinette High School offers to the stu- dents two languages. One is Latin, the basis of all languages, and the other is Spanish, the main language in over half of the West- ern Hemisphere. ln our modern days of fast transporta- tion, the need for a knowledge of more than one language has increased. Two years of each language is equivalent to one year in college. The second year Latin students study their assignment for the next day. Tom Dewey, Margie Gould, Donna Stevenson, Jim Cook, Ann Tjaden, and Elizabeth Ruby are busy writing a test in Spanish I. 29

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i V x 4 'V-ff-..,,, 1 A In speech class, Billie Jean LaF0nd bashfully tells Santa what she would like for Christmas. Shelly Friedstcin reads a tale he has written in Miss Greene's senior English class. English One of the most outstanding traits of a well-educated person is his use of the Eng- lish language. Our English department strives to impress on the student the import- ance of good grammar, a sizeable vocabu- lary, and a knowledge of the literary works. English is required from the seventh through the eleventh grades and recom- mended in the twelfth, especially for college. The seventh graders look very intent as they study their English assignment. -s we 28

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Mr. Molander explains formulas to his first hour elementary algebra class. , f f 'f' L1 f., .,ff F Mialhematics Essential in our everyday life is a know- lege of mathematics, At Marinette High School, a large variety of courses in mathe- matics is offered. Among them are Elemen- tary Algebra, Plane Geometry, Higher Alge- bra, Solid Geometry and Trigonometry. At least one year of mathematics is re- quired for graduation, while those that plan to attend college, have to take two or more years of mathematics.