Oak Park and River Forest High School - Tabula Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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John Gehlmann Margarer Hardie Max l-lohn Rulh Horner Rodney Kimball Mildred Linden Ralph Malihews Margarel O'Donnell Ellen Shuarf Nina Grace Smilh L. D. Swanson James Thompson From The Yearlingm +o . . . . Ml-lamle'r -in four years! X J i U91

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Erank Pla+'r Elizabelh Abel Lydia Allen Helen Barclay Grace Boies Ada Bofhwell Rebecca Burl Bessie H. Cook Knowles Cooke Agnes Davis Elsie De6roff Kermir Dehl Variefy is Jrhe spice ol our English classes. The freshmen mix Jrhe pleasure of reading The Yearlingu wilh Jrhe slruggles over paris of speech and pass lo Jrheir sophomore year for a lasle ol Dickens and drama and a dose of clauses and verbals. The iuniors ex- plore American lileralure and wrile lheir lirsl research paper. The seniors elecl a year ol English liferalure or a semesler ol lilera- lure and a semesler ol speech or wriling, exposilory or crealive. A work period in Exposilory Wriling.

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Clflgblflgefi We may sTudy French, Spanish, Ger- man, and l.aTin under men and women who have Traveled and sTudied in The counTries whose language They Teach. In modern languages emphasis is puT on conversaTion, and addiTional oral work includes presenTaTion oT reporTs, sTories, and slciTs To class members. In l.aTin The language comes alive Through songs and plays and The annual LaTin bangueT puT on in The old Roman sTyle and aTTended by sTudenTs oT The sec- ond, Third. and TourTh-year classes. And we become inTeresTed in The resT oT The world! We correspond wiTh sTudenTs in many counTries oT Europe and CenTral and SouTh America and Thus geT more closely acguainTeol wiTh The people and Their cusToms. Under The sponsorship oT French and l.aTin classes, we have collecTed a large amounT oT cloThing and school supplies and over 15700 in cash To send To The children oT Europe. Florence Lois Walker Helen Geller Brubaker Grace MclnTire lVlarTha Farrand Baker Mabel lVlonTgomery Ellen Muir Pomeroy Irene Whaley LaTin scholars-I947 ediTion. AchTung! T201