Ridley Township High School - Archive Yearbook (Folsom, PA)

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e ...mf 44 As the day of 1he bug les? on Irterafure draws near sophomores rn Mrs E uaftey s Errglrsh class dulrgently revnew the authors and Therr works Whrle rumors are deeply engrossed nn an rntensrve study of one of Emerson s essays Mrs M Burke ex plarns the meanxng of a drfflcult passage to D Lake the slgn 0 an educated man fx Svudenfs rn Mr C Buchanan s Englrsh class ponder over the age old adverb and adlectuve problems which are being explarned by F Toney 711 .fer sg ,, 'dnt Arrr M K is L D lb- , A , K P .- 5. .-... ,Q .J . ni Lv' Ml f r . s' f ' 5 , .A . L ,. X, , . f I 'rx I 'S V ' r Q A 2? -R r V' r 3 1 n g , f, 1 3 X r U I r r 4' rf QR . ' A x . - K - 5 . R I tx - rg

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MISS HELEN HOFFMAN AB Swarthmore College BS Temple Umv Depaflmenl Head MR CLAUDE BUCHANAN AB Penn State MRS MARTHA BURKE MISS ALICE DITZLER AB Duckmson College Seniors pause during classwork ln Engllsh IV whlle Mass H Hoffman suggests an excellent article for extra currlcular reading from the Reader s Digest e ectwe use of ENGLI H Into whatever world we venture as we leave hugh school good Englnsh will prove an essentlal part of our llves It as true that no man llves unto himself for we all have an In fluence on the world In whnch we luve Clear and effective commumcatnon of our Ideas will enable us to make a greater lmpressxon on those with whom we come nn contact One ofthe mam obpectuves ofthe Englush Department ns to encourage lntelllgent crltncal thlnkmg In analyzing and eval uatung that whuch we read and hear Thus IS attained through drull In grammar and composltuon book reports and the study of llterature Each sophomore ns Introduced to the varlous types of later ature the short s'ory blography autoblography and the essay Silas Marner and A Tale of Two Cltles, two of lltera ture s finest works are read by underclassmen An acquanntance wtth the luterature of our own counlry IS necessary If we are to understand the growth and develop ment of our Amer can democracy Members of the lunlor class receive an excellent background un the relnglous polltl cal and purely creative wrltlngs of such American writers as Franklnn Thoreau and Emerson Shakespeare s Macbeth stands out ln the munds of sensors as do the orugnnal essays short stones and poems that cre ahve mnnds have composed The English Department contmually endeavors to relate Engllsh to our lndlvudual everyday lnves since It plays such a vltal role m everythmg we do bfi MRS. EVELYN GATT MR. FELIX MARION MRS. JANE SMITH M.A. Montclair S. T. C. B.S. Fordham Univ. B.S. Univ. of Penna.

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MRS. DOROTHY DAVIS MISS MARIA KOMANOWSKA B.E., Univ. of Colorado B.S., Temple Univ, With compatable expressions, Miss M. Camlin and French Il students listen attentively to a translation by H. Kohlbrenner. FOREIG LA GUAGES mutual unclerstanclmg Mm '3l'TiA'2fC5ZTil 0 the world s people Department Head With the growing emphasis today on a world unified in peace there is an increasing need for an understanding of our fellow men Our Language Department strives to have students recognize the differences in our ways of living in addition to learning to read and converse in a foreign tongue By acquir ing this additional knowledge of others cultures we may better understand their feelings and problems The study of a foreign language also aids us nn understand ing our own English as we know it is derived from many different languages Most of our scientific terms come from Latin and Greek the literary words from French and the great malor ity or our everyday words are of Germanic origin Spanish too has an influence although not so much in the language as in customs and culture Pupils at Ridley Township are fortunate to have the opportunity to study Latin French German and Spanish LA To the satisfaction of Mrs D Davis J Madison successfully completes Difficult passages in advanced German are simplified by the expert the canlugation of the Irregular verb declr in Spanish ll c ss explanations of Miss M Komancwska