Muhlenberg High School - Muhltohi Yearbook (Laureldale, PA)

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MIRIAM E. MOYER ESTELLA E. HARRIS Englijh Engluh, Hulory B.S. in Ed., Kutztown State Teachers A'B Wllson College College Mrs. Harrisls ninth grade classes found that after talking into. the tape recorder they d1dn't sound quite as they thought . . . freshmen Were given their first glimpse of Shakespeare in reading Julius Caesar . . . Water, Water everywhere was chanted by many ninth graders . . . Miss Moyer prepared her eighth graders for their later years by giving them a taste of different languages-French, German, and Latin . . . the Prince and the Pauper and Evangeline, were read and analyzed by the pupils in the eighth grade . . . Mrs. Ramsay's seventh grade tots combined study With pleasure by dramatizing stories with puppets . . . technical grammar was disliked by all classes . . . We were impressed with the necessity for adequate self-expression in all our undertakings. Seventh gmderr pull the' rtringf. HAZEL A. RAMSAY Englifh A.B., Albright College l9l

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JEAN B. CURLEY Englirh A.B., Albright College Sfniorr collabomtz on yfarboole write-upf. Sfudy of English Provides a Means for Self-Expression The English Department strove to develop our backgrounds in the field of literature and to perfect our skill in oral and written grammar . . . seniors went as far back as the fifth century for their source of literature and eventually arrived at the seventeenth century to read the tragedy of Hamlet,' . . . Tale of Two Citiesn caused many seniors to chew on their well-manicured nails . . . diagraming left many ofthe senior boys in a state of disgust . . . senior write-ups proved a problem to those who needed descriptive adjectives . . . Juniors brought many interesting souvenirs from home and told the stories behind them . . . sophomores stumbled through Portia's famous speech in the Merchant of Venice . JAMES A. MARTIN CAROLYN I. TREXLER Englirh Englirh, fournalifm A.B., Elizabethtown College B.S. in Ed., Kutztown State Teachers M.A., University of Wisconsin College T81 1-1 l l l

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M. CATHERINE WERTZ JOHN E. HARRIS Ciwicf, Hiftory Hixtory B.S. in Ed., Lebanon Valley College B.S. in Social Studies, Schuylkill College Sfudenfs Learn fo Be Good Cifizens in 0 Democracy History-a study of the past and the effect it has on the present as Well as on the future . . . the goal toward which the teachers in the department strove is-to produce better citizens by giving the students a clearer under- standing of past events, politics, and World situations . . . ancient peoples living in the Near East, highlighted especially by Egypt and her Nile, introduced our students to the study of history in grade seven . . . soap carvings of famous Greek architectural treasures made the journey into Greece more realistic . . . eighth graders visited the Ancient World with Marco Polo and sailed to the New World with Columbus and Pizarro . . . they marched from Valley Forge to Gettysburg and listened here to Lincoln's unforgettable classic...ninth graders toured,' Pennsbury Manor and Went with Penn as he made treaties with the Indians and beat them in athletic contests. Seeking trzaxures from ancient worldf. EDITH E. STAUDT Hiftory A.B., Ursinus College M.A., Columbia University E101