Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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ll ll l Parlez-vous Francais? 4 GMA Besides following with breathless anticipation the local Centennial news which has all les bour- geois of Rock Island interested, the French Club has been keeping up with the latest European status quos through its correspondent in unoccu- pied France. With the co-operation of the Quad- City French Club, information along cultural lines is absorbed the easy way, via a movie, La Vie To all those philanthropically minded students, the contribution box was passed, at the first of the month, for the benefit of their French protege. The results of this subtle suggestion were far above par. Another phase of activity finds all those concerned breathlessly awaiting the arrival of their weekly French journal, L'Amerique, which, in the language of a bewildered student, baffles, but intrigues. de Beethoven, an informal get-together at Mary- crest, and an upper-crust banquet at the LeClaire Sky-Hi. And getting down strictly to high-minded motives from those of the intelligentsia, a study of French etchings at the Davenport Museum and the reading of 4'Les Miserables and L'Abbe Constantini' are a propos to the matter at hand. ' Row 1. Charlotte Curtis, Blanche Geddes, Lelene Geller- man, Marivene Millett, Jeanne Herndricks, Jackie Campbell. Row 2. Frances Davis, Marilyn Johnson, Becky Morris, Miriam Cutkomp, J u n e Krueger, Whitey Barton, Calvin Nelson. Row 3. Barbara Hult, Adelaide Gest, Gerry Miller, Betty Ge- genheimer, Jeanne Banich, Cheral Welch. Row 4. Mar- jorie J. Anderson, Lois Sher- rill, Harry Althouse, Dick Cam- eron, Don Sutierrez, Ralph Bussard. Row 5. Steve Coin, Bill Carney, Darrel Weinstein, Bill Roth, Miss Malvina M. Caloine. Row 1. Bette O'Farrell, Dar- lene Crapser, Genevieve Van DeSample, Judy Mitchell, Mar- tha Johnston, Dottie Wilson. Verna Starofsky. Row 2. Charlotte Fells, Shirley Myers, Norma Snyder, Shirley Platt, Melissa Neal, Adele Page. Row 3. Carol Karr, Donna Miers. Bette Schneider, Ann Mihail, Peggy Eichelsdoerfer, Marjorie A. Brown, Vivian Shipman. Row 4. Gus Coin, Ruth Koch, Beverly Suglian, Natalie Har- ris, Kathryn Zarub, Phyllis Stoit. Row 5. Paul Pearson. Don Hubbard, Lyle Lynch, Carl Hartman, Kenneth Peterson, The French Club of- ficers are, standing, f Barbara Hubbard, vice- president, second se- mester, Geraldine Mil- ler, president, second semester, and Shirley Myers, vice president, first semester. Seated, Betty Schneider, vice president, second se- mester, and Donna Miers, vice president. first semester. Bill Owens. Vi

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Thirteen courses in Latin, French, Spanish, and German are offered to students at Rocky High who are preparing for col- lege and to those desiring a cultural background. MALVINA CALOINE-B.A., likes work- ing in garden, teaches French and Spanish, dislikes curious questioning. ALVERDA DOXEY-M.A., Latin and English instructor, likes to play bridge, faculty adviser for Latin Club. VIOLET MUNTER-B.A., graduate of Augustana, interested in church work, faculty adviser for German Club, friendly.

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The latest Rock Island Centennial news flashes . . or Spanish-Mexican-Pan-American situation . . . one is as familiar as another to the very intellectual Spanish classes. What with joining the student Pan-American League, a first-hand acquaintance with affairs has been developed with their friends south of the border fto coin a phrasej. Then, too, the synthetic Spanish speak- HZ, Habla Espanol? ' Glad ers have gone the way of all cinemaddicts with three all-Spanish movies, one uMeXico Lindo , another, a double-feature bill, '6Carmelita and This Spanish Speaking World , and last, a full- length flicker with all the trimmings at the Moline Orpheum theater. However unintelligible, the movies are enjoyed for their atmosphere and picturesque method of presentation. Row 1. Lovena Clark, Zal- man Gellerman, Dorothy Katz, Verna Starofsky, Arleen Die- rolf. Row 2. Seymour Dal- koff, Alice Levin, Marvin Pes- ses, Bobby Vernon, Florence Gaylor. Row 3. Dick Hearn, Barbara Sala, Arlyne Wiss, Bill Bradley, Jean Saltzman. Row 4. Nick Parashis, Jack Payne, Howie Dort, John Frost, Arnold Karon. Row 1. Kermit Kelly, Mar- jorie Joseph, Evelyn Barch- man, Inez Dobbs, Anne Caleo, Beverly Wiesman, E d w a r d Schweiss. Row 2. Phyllis Fo- bian, Mary' Wells, Elizabeth Baumann, George Dunlop, John Whisler, Bernice Jaeke. Row 3. Adelaide Gest, Barbara Farrar, Don Gipple, Dorothy von Ach, Betty Lou Ellinwood, Jack Manglesdorf, Jean John- son, Row 4. Wayne Burton, Natalie Harris, Jim Bruner, Bill Millett, Harry McCarty, Ray Mahlo, Miss Malvina M. Caloine. Row 5. Bill Schro- der, Bill McCaffree, Bill Car- ney, Charles Erickson, Ray Laisner, Robert Jordan. The Spanish Club of- iicers are, seated, Lu- cille Vernon, secretary. second semester, Arlyne Wiss, president. second semester, and Alice Le- vin, secretary, Hrst se- mester. Standing, Jack Payne, president, First semester, and Bill Brad- ley, treasurer. Another link in the 1941 chain of events was the super-deluxe banquet for all quad-city Spanish classes at the Lend-A-Hand Club, introducing the new theory of quantity and quality. An added attraction was the trip to the Davenport Museum for Peruvian art study purposes. A paper in the strictly accepted Spanish form is another class- room innovation which seems to follow the for- mula, don't get it write, just get it written, and includes, of course, a maximum of typographical GITOTS.