Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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The French course of study in- cluded learning geography and how to tell time. Oral drills in the lan- guage lab and French slides pro- vided a break from daily routine. Writing their own conversations for Thanksgiving and having a pi- fiata party at Christmas were only a few of the unusual activities of the Spanish classes. Eleven students were given a chance to use their knowledge of the language when a group from PHS visited Mexico over Easter vacation.

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modern languages stress communication, cultur In most respects the modern lan- guages at PHS, concentrating on communication and culture, were taught similarly. Learning the sounds of their second languages, students spent much of their time memorizing dialogues and vocabu- lary lists and struggling with the in- comprehensible verb endings. As Latin was phased out, students were delighted to find German being offered in its place. Consequently it was necessary to form four first year classes. In addition to perfecting their gutteral sounds for the t'Frau, students had word bees and wrote studies of famous German people. Paris est . . soph. Debbie Riddle teaches the class some geography of France. Standing on chairs, soph. jeff Roberts and jr. Mitch Vogel stretch to hang another pifiata for the Spanish Christmas party. Eagerly planning their trip to Mexico, jrs. Cinda Telfer, Peggy Morris, Eva Lowery, Linda Montgomery, Michele Hagan, Kathi Mitchell, and sr. Linda Riddle look over li- brary material on Mexico. Trois heurs et demie soph. Dan O'Hcrn tells soph. Coleen Phillips the time during a French drill. Listening and readin , first year German stu g . dents are introduced to the language lab and its value to developing a good accent. 26 LANGUAGE

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GERMAN CLUB: First row: Sha- ron McDonald, treas., Dean Dare, sec., Tom Ulrcy, pres., Ginger ltees, v. p., Mrs, Pflumg 2nd row, Becky Kelly, Debbie Simpson, Sabrina Pierce, Denise Urshel, james Moreland, Lori Smith, 3rd rowg Martha lobst, Mark Beaman, Frank Curtis, Kathy Battershell, leff Hancock, Richard Rosa, Scott Rivers, 4th row, Mark Wurfel, lim Leonard, Greg Lind, Stcvc Welker, Kurt Gimbel, Doug Huss, Tom Clymer, Ray Fishery 5th row: Bill Friel, Mark Maxwell, David Miller, jeff Martin. Food was the common ingredient of the 1972 language clubs. All spent part of their year tasting foreign dishes-those of their Usecond countryf, The new German Club was in- troduced to German style foods when they held a dinner party at the Stockholm House. In addition, they sold cookies and sponsored the trike race-both at Field Day. Rene's in Broadripple was the set- ting of the French Clubs excursion into cuisine francais. The groups interest in France was increased when a speaker from Chicago dis- cussed the pleasures and costs of touring Europe. 28 LANGUAGE CLUBS MQ AQ l i i l i FRFNIIII CLUB1 First row: Sandy Stilwell. Vancla ltobison. Marilyn Margiulli. Nant: x ,,, ira-s Kisi Hnbcrls Lisa Clark Susan lVlUSS!?l' Kr ti -' ' '1 J ' 1- ith sm. Iinus.. lniilyn lmlmrils. I 1 t , , , , '1'l1f,mIigf,,i, vp, Miss liingliani: Znfl row: XfX'arc14th row: liclwarcl llalclurr. lady Sla lcifsri Hin! hlcr Nluilrnz llu his Pain ton Vallix llalslfucl Nlaislia Nlillri Paul ?'?.' E SIU 3 K, .1 I ., .. . . ,. l3arlwi'. 'lainniy 'l'ri11sf'liuli, Debbie Alyrrrs. Caste, liafliy Long. .'X'a1i1'i' lirown. l.ari'ltu flwrri dialling: 3rd row: ,Xlargarrrt ltrracl. lltllllh. Dan Cl llfrrn.