Philadelphia High School for Girls - Milestone Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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IIINBIIAISI DEPARTMENT Miss Margarei 'Leiper IHead of Deparfmenfl, Miss Bessie Bernslein, Mr. Jerry Caponigro, Miss Anna Carlin, Miss Margueriie Fisher. SECOND ROW: Dr. Jessie Glenn, Dr. Ruih Hoffsien, Miss Adele Horion, Miss Naomi Johnson, Miss Reba Medlar. THIRD ROW: 'Dr. Beniamin Rigberg, Mrs. Naomi Zieber. FOU RTH ROW: Miss Marie Weeks, Miss Nellie Wursier. -Our siudies oi foreign languages have Iaughi us Io appreciaie and unclersland culiures and peoples alien Io ourselves, and have made us familiar wilh Iheir hisiories and heroes. Toclay, when our horizons are slreiching Io lake in Ihe whole world, Ihere are mar- velous opporiuniiies for Ihose who spealc anoiher Iongue. AI a lime when ihe Iaie of 'rhe world maybe ai sialce, undersianding is of vi'raI imporiance in choosing The road Io peace. Thank you who have poinied ihe way. MUST WE SAY IT IN SPANISH?

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OUR VERSION OF HAMLET. INISIISH DEPARTMENT FIRST ROW: Mr. Jaclr Edelson lHead of Deparfmenll, Mrs. Selina Adams, Miss Mary Baylson, Mrs. Helen O. Brisfol, Miss Eloise Bullman. SECOND ROW: Miss Margarel Dungan, Dr. Clemenl Fousl, 'Dr. Rose Glaymen, Miss Margaref Guerin, Mrs. Frances Murray. THIRD ROW: Miss 'Doro+hy Noe, Miss Margarei' Sullivan. FOURTH ROW: Mrs. Dorofhy Churchill, Mrs. Harrief Morgan. To give a compleie evaluaiion of all Ihal' Ihe English Deparlmenl has given us in These four years is impossible. Our s'rucIy of grammar ranged from 'rhe undersianding of The simplesi senlence io an apprecialion of Ihe inlricaie delails of rheioricq our siudy of liieralure, from I-Iomer io Hem- ingway. We are indebied Io Ihe members of The English Deparimenl lor opening Io us new concepis ol beauiy. Now we can offer only a simple, Thank you, and hope Ihal' our growing appreciaiion of greal Iiferaiure will coniinue io express our grail- Jrude.

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MATHEMATICS IIIPAIIIMINI FIRST ROW: Miss Elizabellu Wood ll-Ieacl of Deparfmenll, Miss E. Ka+I1ryn Clark, Miss Mary L. Conslable, Miss Clara Kehler. SECOND ROW: Miss Evelyn Owen, Miss Helen O. Shollenberger, Miss Marie E. Wilhelmi, Miss Olive A. Williams. THIRD ROW: Mrs. Anna Grimsley. HOW CAN X EQUAL Y, MISS WILLIAMS? Noi many years ago, we wondered whelher we would ever learn 'ro add Iwo and Ihree. Now we have learned more diflicull problems, lor our malh 'reachers have developed in us Ihe abilily lo 'rhink wilh clarily and underslanding. Whelher or noi we remember formulas and 'rheorems seems unimporlanl. when we realize Ihal' we have been endowed wilh Iwo Iasling gills: logic, and sound discipline ol mind. For I'he sunshine and growlh-suslaining elemenls you provided lor 'rhis seedling called lhe mind, we are graleful.