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

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Velma Ball Claire Bluzal Beafrice Cohen Phyllis Durnin Rifa McGuane Dorolhy Miller Harlow S+evens Jess Wagus Alice Ward Q 1 Ill Uv l 1 P- ' H2f5Y 3? Q h 4 Q wff,!l:7 , Q 8 ' ' 0 La vie en France. Spanish small-Jrallc. l2ll

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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

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Reid STephens ,MJ !0l'y Morris, Buske F. F. Carson James ColleTTi L. H. FriTzemeier 'll T A lv F f l ll T '-5 V Russell Fuog R. T. HeclceTsweiler RoberTa Hinman Mary Hope Zelma Lindem Florence Magowan Blanche Oxborrow Allen Price Eva Pring A. W. Roehm Helen ShaTer JeanneTTe Sorensen To learn The whys and whereTores oT civilizaTion is Tas- cinaTing. ln our hisTory classes we delve back To The Time- oT primiTive man and Tollow his progress Through ancienT Egy,pT, Greece, and Rome To The Middle Ages, The period OT The Renaissance, and on To modern Times. Our hisTory courses do noT sTop wiTh AncienT, Euro- pean, and American HisTory. ln addiTion, Far EasTern and LaTin American HisTory 'help us To inTerpreT The presenT. An American GovernmenT class makes a more deTailed sTudy Than is possible in American HisTory. Courses in Sociology and Economics provide basic TacTs abouT human problems and The producTion and disTribuTion OT wealTh in our sysTem oT business. So we sTudy The pasT and The presenT. , i221