Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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X he purpose of every school is to educate. The school Morton fulfills that purpose. There are few better places at which to be educated than at Morton, a school that holds the highest standards of scholarship. Each day Morton leads its students into a world of new things, a world where one can travel the globe by learning, a constantly changing and challenging world, re-formed daily by current events. Morton ' s faculty is of the best quality, and so are the students. They help make Morton what it is—the Governors ' Mansion. 23

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Governors Explore Mysteries ENGLISH LITERATURE students Eugene Misner, Judy Reeves, and Sherman Waring act out a scene from “A Man for All Seasons,” a play studied in Mrs. Moylan’s class. English, “ye olde language,” is studied for at least seven semesters by all Morton stu¬ dents before they graduate. Through the ex¬ ploration of our intricate language, Governors increase their ability to comprehend and ab¬ sorb the knowledge made available to them. Freshmen study basic grammar and com¬ position skills. They usually read, as a class, one novel per semester along with individual book reports each six weeks. Since this pro¬ gram of study is continued into the sophomore year, books such as David Copperfield, Ivan- hoe, and A Tale of Two Cities add to the store of literary knowledge of underclassmen. Semester courses in composition and American literature are taken by juniors at Morton. Comp. V teaches juniors to express themselves in clear, concise English. American Literature VI provides students with a work¬ able knowledge of the great American authors and their works. Some seniors take another full year of composition while others elect to divide their last year between composition and English literature. In this last semester of composition, “The Atlantic Monthly’ is a teaching aid. RESEARCH PAPERS present a great scholastic obstacle for junors in Composition V. George Bewley uses the library’s sources to begin work on a term paper for his class. HISTORY AND ADVENTURE come alive for freshmen English students through the pages of books. Dave Mustoe and Diane Burke discuss their latest literary “venture.”