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

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al'lgll,a,g06 Through The sTudy oT Toreign languages we gain a vasT knowledge oT The world in which we live. NoT only are declensions and coniugaTions TaughT, buT also The characTer- isTics oT The people whose languages we sTudy. STudenTs are encouraged To do ouT- Florence Brubaker Helen Geller Lois Walker Farrand Baker Velma Ball Claire Bluzal BeaTrice Cohen Phyllis Durnin side research and reporT on Their Tindings. STudenTs also correspond wiTh young people oT oTher counTries and so learn each oTher's languages and backgrounds. ln The Modern Language classes conver- EI Senor speaks. The lady Trom France.

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gingfidk English is required oT our sTudenTs during all Tour years oT high school. In The TirsT Two years The TundamenTals oT wriTing are sTudied and various Types oT liTeraTure, including plays, poems, shorT sTories, and novels, are read. ln The iunior year American liTeraTure is examined and sTudenTs become ac- quainTed wiTh The ToremosT American wriTers. Journalism, which is a senior elecTive, may be Talcen by iuniors Tor Training in wriTing and special prepara- Tion Tor worlc on The Trapeze or The Tabula. STudenTs are oTTered a wide varieTy oT elecTives To compleTe Their senior year. A year oT English liTeraTure may be chosen, or a semesTer oT liTeraTure and a semesTer oT speech or oT wriTing, eiTher creaTive or exposiTory. John Gehlmann MargareT Hardie Max l-lohn RuTh l-lorner Mildred Linden Ralph MaTThews Maxine Redmond Ellen ShuarT Nina Grace SmiTh JeanneTTe Sorensen L. D. Swanson James Thompson Proud oT our American heriTage l'5l

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Rilra McGuane Grace lvlclnfire Dororhy Miller Ellen Muir Mabel Pomeroy Jess Wagus Alice Ward Irene Whaley salion, wilh emphasis on pronuncialrion and idioms, is slressed. Songs are sung, much +o Jrhe enioymenl of lhe sludenls. Greai works of foreign lirerarure are read in ad- vanced courses. ln Lalin, grammar and word derivalrives are emphasized. Afrer Jrhe firsl year Caesar, Virgil, Cicero, and Ovid are read. Whelher we slrudy languages Jro receive a liberal educalion or ro meer Jrhe language requiremenls for medicine or law, our lan- guage deparlmenl has everylhing lo suif our needs. Veni, vidi, vici. Das is'r es. 71