Middlebury High School - Middiette Yearbook (Middlebury, IN)

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Language Students Learned to Communicate Young, energetic minds need a way to express their thoughts. Language, whether English or Spanish, can provide the media needed. Through themes, term papers and the presentation of oral book reports the English students received considerable practice in expressing themselves clearly. The Spanish students learned to express their thoughts creatively through impromptu skits, conversations, and formal speeches and reports. The portable lab and tape recorder aided the Spanish students by permitting them to hear a native speaker. The students learn to understand and appreciate universal literature styles before attempting such specifics as American and English literature. A variety of authors, settings, plots, and styles of writings are studied in prose. Poetry consists of a study of rhythm, rhyme, style and all the techniques that make it a universal language in idea and technique. learning by the use of the self teaching mobile language laboratory unit. Third year Spanish students Sally Yoder, Sue Bal-ycat, Steve Yoder, and Dennis Rheinheimcr are discovering the advantage of new techniques in Taking his turn at giving an oral book report in English is Tim Rassi. This helped to promote additional reading.

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Business Techniques Broadened Know ledge The business students found good training for the future in the business curriculum. The typing I classes were introduced to the typewriting procedures while the typing II classes were stressing speed and dexterity as well as learning how to use other types of office machines such as adding machines and dictaphones. They also learned correct filing methods . By learning the fundamental steps of note taking, the shorthand I students were able to overcome this problem. Those looking forward to a secretarial career improved their speed in shorthand II. The bookkeeping class learned the importance of balanced books and were also confronted with the dilemma of filling out tax returns. The correct filing procedure was learned by Josephine Stutzman and Winifred Rassi in the Typing II class. Caught in the act of working with the adding machine on her tedious Typing II assignment was Rhoda Watson. 25

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Above: Judy Troyer tests her knowledge of vocabulary words, while completing her Readers' Digest assignment. Right: Freshmen, Larry Miller and Joe Boutersc, enacted a scene from a play they had studied in literature. Kathy Kauffman pointed out a scene from Argentina to other first year Spanish students, Larry Miller, Mary Frederick and Ben Corson. 27