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

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Shakespeare becomes more vivid through interpretations as seniors enact Macbeth. Mrs. Schuck offers suggestions to actors, Carolyn Jensen, Thomas Brooks, James Walters, and Carol Bailey. Essays, Recitations, Tests Challenge English Knowledge ANDREW O. AASGAARD, BA, English. MEDIA HANKINS, MA, English. VIRGINIA HARROD, MA, English, Journalism, Watchtower, Crimson Crier. SARAH C. LARAWAY, MA, English. LESTER F. MA¬ THIS, MA, English.

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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

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Accuracy ii the goal of Richard Geisler and Constance Arndt, sophomores, as they correct their themes with the aid of dictionaries. Commas, apostrophes, nouns, and direct objects appear in unsuspected places as English students discover. Knowing these mechanics is vital to speaking in correct grammatical form and is developed through oral recita¬ tions and reports. The typical student can probably recite Antony ' s funeral speech, re¬ count fully Silas Marner ' s life, or de¬ scribe the literary characteristics of the Romantic Age. This familiarity comes from constructive reading. Pencil-pushing students are also aware of the value of writing; and themes, book reports, essay tests, and term papers remain unforgotten parts of English-conscious high school days. By reporting on a book he has read, David Sorensen hopes to encourage other sopho¬ more English students to read more widely. NICHOLAS l. PESCHANG, MA, English, BS, English. CAROLYN P. WALKER, MA, Tennis coach. RUTH A. SCHUCK, BA, Eng- English. MARGARET L. WINBIGLER, BA, lish. Speech, Y-Teens. HELEN THOMPSON, English. english 23