Medford High School - Crater Yearbook (Medford, OR)

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new Dinah Hutchison and Barbara Gor- don hear some of the Spanish rec- ords that will be played in class To further The students' knowledge ot Spanish background. In any of The three class levels students speak Spanish instead of English a good share ofthe time. vm-W f Noel Noel. Three French carolers step down from a Christmas card to sing The famous old song. Elaine Williams leads as Shirley Lynch and Carl Gordon come in on the harmony. Elaine and Shirley are second year students, Carl first year. The French classes have organized a club, Le Rendez-Vous Francais. To receive an award pin one must be a member of The French class, have a B average, and contribute some constructive project to promote The learning of French cus- Toms. ln class students have regular oral assignments in which They carry on conversations in French. Here also They present their proiects to benefit the entire class. Advanced Latin students Doug Culy, Dotty McGraw, Dotty Rhymes, locate Troy and Carthage on a map of the ancient world as they work on the historical background of Virgil's AENEID. Even today lines tom the AENEID are quoted, Dux temina facti - there's a woman in the case. 4-wr'

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H H+ I 5 P-if L ' 1 lr 4' HIM? UM? ,Q P on ...N BOTTLE NECK STAIRWAY A stock excuse for tardiness'P Above is exhibit A The bottle neck stairway lead ing to all points north south east or west This venerable causeway Cth s little tale has a moral for future scholarsj has become the social center of student lute between classes Now statistics have proved that a few steps to another stairway would cut ones traveling time in half but still the throngs surge to the central staircase and mill an a congested herd while the two minutes between classes wane. What draws them here? Perhaps it is the chance to see some new tlame, or more than likely to get a hot tip on some looming exam.

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Friends, R o m a n s, Countryrnen, l e n d me your ears till Saturday night. - Hey this is fun! exclairns Tom Daniel Webster Gail as he polishes up a lit- tle on his gestures. Speech work takes lots of practice but the stu- dents know how to han- dle thernselves w h e n called upon. +2 Uldiosyncrasy-What a word! comments Chuck Case as Nancy McKewon takes down the definition. HOW TO USE THE LIBRARY PROPERLY was a proiect of the English De- partment this year. Classes went one by one to the library to learn the proper rnethod of using the card catalogue, Readers' Guide, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. All the Sen- ior English classes wrote research papers based on work done in the library. QQ b A I , i, W i.,,,.?,,w -, ' ff' .312 ,222 fi asf Mfr , U lnfirm ot purpose' Give me the daggers The sleeping and the dead a but as pictures Tis the eye ot hood that tears a pa nt devil Pat Fraase as Lady Macbeth and Doug Culy as Macbeth, su- dents in Miss Willers first period English class, drarnatze a scene from Shakespeare.