Pembroke High School - Corsair Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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Language Students Learn Jane Wyatt and William Bullington ponder over those strange foreign sounds. Mr. Home disbelievingly listens to a student’s translation. Bridgette Beisner frantically tries to get her Spanish homework done. French student, Leslie Fink gives an oral French report to her class. 20

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Department Receives Three New Teachers Nancy Lake shows Mr. Home that she really does know where Berlin is. Katherine Moore looks over her notes during a Spanish class. The study of foreign languages is a very essen- tial element in the educated person. The Lan- guage Department strives to meet this challenge by providing the student with the knowledge to speak a foreign language. The department, di- rected by Mr. James Horne, offered Spanish, French, Latin and German. Cecelia Covington reads the minutes at a Spanish Club meeting. 19

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More Of Foreign Countries Miss Mary Sandy has time for some punch during a Spanish Club party. Miss Sandra J. Melton The ability to operate a film projector is a requirement for being a German teacher, as Mr. Horne displays. Andrew Bassette concentrates on his Latin classwork as Mrs. Frazier looks on. Language students participated in a variety of activities last year. Among them were field trips relative to the language and country they were studying. Many students carried on correspon- dence with people living in Germany and France. All of these activities gave the students a better understanding of the people, country and language they were studying. 21