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

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Hie, haec, hoc —recite the Latin classes as they learn declensions, translate Roman myths or Caesar s Commentaries. Spanish and French students strug¬ gle through conversations in these tongues and find that slight mispro¬ nunciations can result in amusing statements. To add variety to textbook work, language teachers lead Christ¬ mas carols in Spanish and French and sometimes show colored slides of the foreign lands. With the world shrinking, due to improved transportation methods, mas¬ tering a foreign language becomes more important. It helps to create a better understanding among peoples throughout the world. MALVINA M. CALOINE, MA, French, Spanish, French club, Pan American League. ALVERDA DOXEY, MA, Latin. CLARA FANAKOS, MA, Spanish, Pan American League. Languages Twist Tongues; Result: Novel Pronunciations Improving accents with the tape recorder and records, Judith Versman, Nancy Collins, Judith Novak, and Tom Whitmore agree it provides a welcome and amusing break in the class. 20 languages

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HAROLD V. AIMQUIST, BA, Biology, Athletic Director, Head footboll coach, Lettermen ' s club. GEORGE D. BAIRD, MS, Chemistry, Director of Audio-Visual Edu¬ cation. GEORGE H. FRANCK, ME, Biolo¬ gy, Sophomore football coach, Ass ' t track coach. DOROTHY K. HALL, BA, Biology. W. L. KIMM EL, MA, Biology. GEORGE H. McMASTER, MS, Biology, Physics, Ap¬ plied Electronics, Science club. Camera club. Unearthly Odors, Miscalculations Tax Scientists ' Nerves David Bloemsma and Thomas Dasso use scales for pur¬ poses other than weighing the result of calories as they test Archimedes ' theory on water density. A greatly-magnified, plaster leaf unfolds to Mr. Franck ' s bi¬ ology students, Robert Miers and James Barth, the mysteries of photosynthesis and leaf structure. science 1 9

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The schoolroom transforms into a make-believe deportment store for DE trainees Shelba Smith, Opal Wheeler, and Sandra Larson, who practice business principles. The modern, fully-equipped special education de¬ partment provides tools and materials for the con¬ struction of a coffee table by Don Campbell and Ray Simmon. Trainees Gain Business Know-How in Stores, Factories Thank you, madam, come again is the watchword for many Diversified Occupations and Distributive Educa¬ tion students as they prepare for future jobs and careers. In DE, organized in 1952, selling techniques, including salesmanship, display, grooming, and personality, are studied and put into practice in the third floor lab. In DO, originated in 1951, each mem¬ ber studies a topic helpful to him on his particular job—typesetting by the printing apprentice or hair styling by a future beauty operator. JOHN L. BEVILL, ME, Diversified Occupa¬ tions, DO club. Color Guard. VIOLET NELSON, MS, Special Education. LAW¬ RENCE NEUERBURG, MA, Distributive Ed¬ ucation, Typing. Christmas at Mocy ' s has nothing on the artistic arrangements of aspiring department store decora¬ tors Robert Plank, Beverly Lundgren, and Lawrence Ingram who transform the DE room into a children’s paradise. se, de, do 21