Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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lfagmenfa mr!! mace 'H-4 il 3 2. fini' gs gt, V1.9 9 'Sf . ss t35g3i's 6:55 world, languages are important because the people that speak and write them are important. At Proviso a foreign language department, combining for the first time this year its classical and modern divi- sions, offers courses in Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Through these the student sees the common ori- gin, the similarities of construction, and the elemental ideas expressed in all languages. With improved transportation and communication, dialects of isolated areas have already given way to a few broad language groupings. with study and the desire for a united world. we may one day use a common speech. They say that France is really wonderfulslanguage and all. Thereis no time like Christmas -even in France! Ah! -Brazil! Fascinating, eh, Seiora? Those Romans were quite the people! . . . At least Miss Robinson thinks so. Did those Germans wear sloppy joes and bobby socks? My, how times have changed! Page 25

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,W t Boy, we're really gettin' educated! Even reading Spanish papers and listening to Spanish songs! Miss Phelan gives an approving eye to the Roman togal Gee, isn't that a classy outfit? That's nothing compared to the Empire State Building, but it's purtyl Wouldn't you love to see the whole world? The kids think that's a heavy load for one man. If tha1's what they do, we'll stay in the U. S. Page 24 Foreign angvwage aglfnafg The differences in language throughout the world eon- stituted, in times past, a serious barrier to understanding and peaceful relationships among the nations. As the language of culture and religion, Latin afforded a partial unity in the Middle Agesg it remains for todayls wider study of languages, past and present, to wear down the walls of our inability to understand Words that are only audillly different, liut spiritually the same. So necessary is the disappearance of language barriers that Eleanor Roosevelt has proposed that everyone in the united world speak two languages, his own and one other --ideally fan international language. In a deimocratic

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9 KS ocia Llncfied lfwidion Then, as now. the navy is the center of attraa-tion nrouud liere. Miss Trost ponders the fate of the nation with ambitious slucles. Mr. Stuhlxs points out the salues of educ-ation. W67l'8 worried about that new 1-ar. Mr. Finstad. And this is Provisoli' Miss W1-st and students View the world with interest. Page 20 In no Iield ol' study is titers- greater opportunity to lIlllll0llN'l1i the progress of world unity than in the social studies. lt is pn-1-ist-ly a study of mankind in relation to his physical enviromnent and tha- Civilization he has liuilt, for himself. ,X twelfth 1-enlury ehronirler, Henry -uf lluntington, observed that one of nian's most distinguishing -g'haracter- istirs. as K'0lllilill'f'll with those of other animals, was his iilten-st in his past. The modern student of social science has a broader COIli'ClJtl0Ilr- man in relation to his past, present, and future. Through its offerings in social studies, Proviso Inalces