Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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P.u i. John Cookk Chairman Department of Foreign Languages A.B., A.M., Ph.I)., University of Illinois The language department offers two years of French and Spanish. Advanced courses in both I'rcnch and Spanish are open to girls who have had previous training in both languages. In order to help students practice their conversation and add to their understanding of the Spanish and I'rcnch people, the Language Lounge is open at all limes. I lere are records of their native songs and book shelves lined with novels, dictionaries, and reference books. The walls are decorated with sombreros and colorful travel posters. French and Spanish magazines and newspapers are available so that the student may find out recent developments and trends of thought in these countries as well as practice her translations. ClfANKIKG MACIrADON B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., University of Minnesota Herbert A. Woodbury A.B., Harvard College; Gradute study, Washington University

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English Department Every Monticcllo student is enrolled in an English class where she is given the opportunity of learning to write clearly, to read critically, and to think for herself. Juniors are placed in an English composition course which teaches them to write correctly and expressively. Criticism ol themes and discussions ol essays, short stories, novels, poems anti plays are the techniques employed. A course in Biblical Literature is o lie red covering both the Old and New Testaments in the King James Version, which is treated not from a theological point of view, but rather as a cultural heritage of English speaking people. English literature, a course open to seniors only, is a study of classical literature from the 8th century to the present. One of the more advanced courses in the English Department is American literature combined with American history, known as A.C. and C. (American Culture and Civilization.) John D. Schweitzer A.B., Westminster College; M.A., University of Chicago Nancy Walthall B.S., M.S., K a n s a s State Teachers College Florence Wollerman A.B., Illinois College; iM.A., University of Illinois

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Visual Arts Department Hki.kn Frances Patton Chairman Department of Visual Arts B.S., George Peabody College for Teachers; M.A., University of Chicago At Monticello, the art department provides for the individual differences and interests of its students. A primary objective of the department is to develop in the student an understanding and an appreciation of the visual arts, and to institute a sound foundation lor achievement in fine or applied arts. M ijor emphasis is placed on practical experimentation in the studios. Students arc offered a wide variety of courses, including sculpture, drawing, painting, textiles and weaving. History and appreciation is also offered, which gives the student a good introduction to art forms oi various civilizations, and shows the effects of past art on contemporary forms. The Fobes arcade provides a colorful and well-lighted gallery for traveling exhibits, and display.; of faculty and student work. Hili.is Arnold B.A., University of Minnesota; Graduate work, Minneapolis School of Arts William Kennedy B.A., John Herron Art School; graduate work at Art Institute of Chicago and University of Wisconsin W. Vladimir Roi sseff Bulgarian National Gymnasium; L’ Fcole tie l’Assomption, Varna, Bulgaria; Art Institute of Chicago; studied with Randall Darvv, George Bellows, Albert H. Krehbeil. Carl Buehr