River Forest High School - Ingot Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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MRS. JUDITH WATSON MR. RICHARD WATSON Mr. Gene Adamczyk goes over a point in Russian grammar with his Russian seminar group. LARGE SELECTION OF LANGUAGES OFFERED Today many colleges and universities require at least two years of a foreign language. For a school the size of River Forest, a wide selection of foreign lan- guages is offered. These include Spanish, French, and Latin taught by Mr. Richard Watson, French and German instructed by Mrs. Judith Watson, and Russian taught by Mr. Gene Adamczyk. The department is proud of its well-equipped language laboratory. There stu- dents can hear the language they are studying on tapes by natives of that country. Also, languages are being taught in the junior high. For every year of foreign language study, junior high students get one semester of high school credit. French and German are the only languages offered in the junior high as yet. Shelly Disney and Jim Dixon receive individual instruction on their French lessons from Mrs. Watson. Mr. Watson stands by while students listen to Spanish tape record- ings in the language laboratory. 10

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COMPLEX BRINGS ON INNOVATIONS Construction for the new $650,000 ad- dition to River Forest High was.completed in July 1966. The complex includes new classrooms, individual study rooms, an auditorium, and a two-story library. The addition brought many changes and innovations. The junior and senior high will now be combined, with classes held in both buildings. With more complicated curricula, com- puters will be used to arrange scheduling. Students will carry only six classes which consist primarily of four solids. For the able student, more time will be given over to research, with the auditorium used for lectures under the new team-teaching program. Above: The new addition is shown in. its early stages in September 1965. Left: As spring arrives the addition be- gins to show signs of completion. A large color layout of the new complex was displayed during the year in the main office.

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ENGLISH DEPT. EMPHASIZES COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS The students at River Forest are required to have four years of English. The English department of- fers composition, literature, speech, journalism, and the opportunity to work on the Melting Pot news- paper, the Ingot yearbook, and the Reflector literary magazine. Academic English classes are scheduled for col- lege bound students. They prepare the students by going deeper into the structure of the English language, by analyzing classic and contemporary novels, and by writing critical papers. Non-academic classes mainly prepare students to take good English into the business world and into everyday living. Head of the department, Miss Betty Major, feels that English is really learning communication in all forms. Mr. Garcia explains a grammatical detail to Al- ice Allen, while other members of the senior English class work on their semester term papers. Members of Miss Vitkovich ' s junior English class enjoy a moment of humor before returning to serious class activity. MRS. NATALIE KELLER MR. TOM HONTZ MR. SERGIO GARCIA MISS BETTY MAJOR MRS. JUDITH PRICE MRS. VIOLA SODERSTROM MISS ZORINE VITKOVICH II