New Athens High School - Vespa Yearbook (New Athens, IL)

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Dorothy Oelrich, B.A. We need to know about our world as it was yesterday and as it is today. To know and appreciate the rights of ever)' individual, rights that have been assured us onlv through long and studious years, is to learn the “story of mankind.” The world history students learn about our world as it is today through the study of various maps, world cultures, and our great forefathers. Such projects as mock elections, a detailed study of the Declaration of Independence, the Federal Constitution, and other great documents of our heritage help us to understand the history of the United States of America. M rs. Dorothy Oelrich has the task of instructing and helping the history students achieve the highest degree of understanding in both World and United States history. Besides teaching the history classes, Mrs. Oelrich teaches the boys’ sophomore English class. In this class the boys read poetry, short stories, and novels, such as Silas Martier. You can gain a wealth of information from history. The voters of the future get into the swing of a presidential election . . . Lee Schaller points out the main mast on the Flying Cloud”, the fastest clipper ship of the mid 1800's, to members of the U.S. history class . . . How many answered all the questions on Silas Marner correctly? . . . The study of the French Revolution is made more interesting with the showing of The Tale of Two Cities.

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The students of NACHS were honored by the ' presence'' of the noted Sir Robin when the 8th hour freshmen English class presented Sir Robin of Locksley . . . Due to a shortage of girls, long blond curls covered Mike Goodall's crew cut as he portrayed Herbie's sister in Herbie's First Dote . . . Sophomore English is really fun with spelling bees to climax our weekly spelling assignments . . . Members of the senior English class anticipate how gay the room will look after their posters on Canterbury Tales are hung . . . Hunting ads for one of their assignments on forceful and persuasive advertising are members of the 3rd hour English class . . . Is this right, Eugene? asks Mrs. Gladys Stookey during a grammar review in the 7th hour junior English class. Is English really important? Just as water is necessary for life, English is essential to understand each other. To attain this understanding we must acquaint ourselves with the many words in our language, their meanings, and most effective use. Linder the efficient and skillful direction of Mrs. Gladys Stookey, we begin to master English and express our ideas and thoughts in a lucid, proper, and meaningful form. Some of the latent talents of our students were revealed in the projects of the English classes. Dave Kammler was chosen to represent NACI IS in the “1 Speak for Democracy contest, I larold VViegand won everyone's approval with his tall tale, and there were some excellent sketches of characters from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales strung across the blackboards. At an assembly during National Education Week the freshmen presented two plays, Sir Robin of Locksley and Herbie's first Date. 8

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Don D. Schriner, B.Fd., M.S. Mathematics is the bridge to better understanding and the development of reasoning powers. Whether the engineer is constructing a bridge, or the housewife is doubling a recipe, mathematics is the basis from which they work. Mr. Don Schriner presents the in’s and out’s of calculations to all his mathematics students from the 8th graders to the seniors. Longest in teaching service at NACI IS, Mr. Schriner gives freely of his time and knowledge to all who seek it. Now, set the index of the C scale above the 3 on the D scale, explains Mr. Schriner to the members of the advanced math class, as they become proficient in the use of the slide rule . . . The inquisitive students in the third hour algebra doss present many preplexing square root problems for Mr. Schriner to explain . . . Mr. Schriner explains the Pythagorean Theorm to the puzzled members of the geometry class . . . Practical problems, such as computing interest, are tackled by the 8th grade mathematics students . . . Finding the value of X in an equation seems much easier to the fourth hour algebra class when they compare their work at the board. 10