Miami Palmetto High School - Palm Echo Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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Creative Arts Courses Develop Students' Talents Courses in the creative arts strived to add new dimensions to communication. Students who padicipated in these classes learned the importance of expression through speech. mu- sic, art. and publications. Pupils taking dramatics experienced the enjoyment of acting and performing in front oi audiences as did students participating in Concert Chorus, Girls' Chorus. Singing Men. Doubie Quartet. and Band. The feeling of ac- complishment after meeiing final publication deadlines excited studemg on newspaper and yearbook staffs. Experiencing a desire to create. art and speech students stressed originality in ideas. DRAMA INCLUDES MOVEMENTS AS WELL AS SPEECH. A5 MR. CHARLES DANIELS DEMONSTRATES TD JED MILES AND IUELL FALKEY.

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J. Batchellor E. Hayes Library-A.V. Adds Teaching Devices to Complex Three librarians. clerks and assistants gave the library a face-lifting. Students iound that necessary data re-grouped in the subject-matter areas helped increase depth of classroom teach; ing. By adding the Audio-Visual Department to its services. the library. as the research center for the school. provided an atmosphere can- ducive to academic work. Enlargement of the college catalog room assisted and stimulated students as the library continued to provide further ef'ficient aid. HEAD LIBRARIAN MRS. J. BATCHELLOR LEADS somomoa: SEMINAR N. Swinney 3 ; J J J I DAVID KLEIN MUD GEORGE HOOVER SHILE hPPROVINGLY AT AUDiO-VISUAL DEPERTMENT RECORDER.

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Foreign language Tapes Aid Teaching Conversation In a time when communication is vital. the teaching of a language can broaden the scope of the world's horizon. The study of foreign lan- guage educated the students not only in the lan- guage but also in the customs and life of the country. Five years of Spanish and tour of Ger- man were offered, Most emphasis was placed on the development of comprehension tor fluency of speech. Our language department had the second largest enrollment in the state and was one of two schools in Dade County to obtain a new thirty-post lab set that hung trorn the ceiling. s. Shumuad 1:. Smith .: '-T.- tarr'k'ew 1t Y HEARING I FRENCH DI'RLMUE. MISS SANDRA SHERWOOD SEEMS SURPRISED AT A PUPIL'S PRONUNCIATION.