Montgomery High School - Valhal Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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58 PRECISE, APPRECIATIVE USE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAJOR AIM OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT To use English with appreciation of its precision and variety and the richness of its literary heritage is the goal of all English classes at Montgomery High School. Academic courses emphasize the kinds of reading, writing, and speaking needed for success in university and college courses. lnter- mediate English classes maintain high standards of usage and writing for those who will be facing practical and immediate problems of language in iobs or at iunior college. A third group of classes offers a realistic program to students who do not plan to go to college. ln sophomore, junior, and senior English classes alike the notebook is an important requirement as a supplement to regular reading assignments and exercises in English grammar and composition. ln it are kept much at the classwork and homework, vocabulary lists, and notes. The notebook grade is an important one in the final evaluation of a student s achi- evement in the course. As forthe future ofthe English department at Montgomery High School, Mr. Douglas Campbell, department chairman, fore- sees no radical revision. The biggest obstacle, said Mr. Campbell, is the lack of enough time to devote to the writing ability of students. Time is devoted to this area to a certain extent in the general education program, speech and drama classes, debate team, and Creative Writing Club, but the problem still remains in English classes themselves. . Q , 4 ' 15 l Ve-L PANEL DISCUSSIONS such as the one shown above in which Tim Eagan, Pauline Wilson, Steve Maximov, and Janine French, sophomore English students of Miss Bernice Parish, are participating, give students confidence in speaking before the group. FRIENDS, ROMANS, AND COUNTRYMEN... Mark Calleri, Joan Langland, Eleanor Gurevitch, Margie Stillwell, Karen Delimant, and Frank Reed, drama students of Mr. John Hays, rehearse a scene from Shakespeare. MR. RICHARD STARR congratulates Judy Reed, senior, on the excellence of her notebook, a good example of neatness and completeness.

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I MR ROBERT ACQUISTAPACE Amerlcan government Instructor points out the areas of conflict between Communist China and lesser nations In the Near East to three of his students Jean Dahlgren Bob Dawson and Frances Llnehan Stuclyof current world problems according to Mr Acqulstapace IS an Important area ofthe socual studles curriculum l w - I I ' 1 1 - , . , .