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

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Student by English Dep Florence Costen, BS, MA, Iowa State College, Colorado State, Homemaking Art, Junior Class Chairman. O rtm © 11 t Bli$i, Maple, BS, MA, Purdue University, Columbia University, Home Economics, F.H.A. Ho me Economists Become Learned In Domestic Arts The way to a man ' s heart is the slogan of these home economics girls Sandy Gonyier, Linda Wadkins, and Shoron Ryker. Sofia Kougeoures, BS, Eastern Illinois University, English, Y- Teens Sponsor. Neola Kubicek, BA, Cornell Col¬ lege English, Red Cross. Beverly Rhines, BA, Iowa State Teachers College, English, Y- Teens Sponsor, Sophomore Class Sponsor. Lyol Swenson, AB, MA, Univer¬ sity of Illinois, Northwestern University, English, Y-Teens Sponsor. Carolyn Walker, AB, MA, Au- gustana College, University of Illinois, English Helen Welty, BA, Knox College, English, Y-Teen Committee.

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Rich World of Literature Revealed to Arden Miss Hankins and Wilbur Wilson plan to revise o theme which discusses the degredotion of Mac¬ beth ' s soul. ' ' Friends, Romans, and Countrymen . . . Double, double toil and trouble . . . The fog comes on little cat feet . . These are merely small excerpts from the vast world of literature that the study of English opens to one. With just a literature book to guide him, a student may find himself in the treach¬ erous Florida Everglades or in the spirit- haunted castle of a murderer king, or in the crude hovel of an epileptic miser, lambic pentameters, trochaic feet, hexameters, and octameters — all of these forbidding terms are keys which unlock the door to the en¬ joyment and understanding of worthwhile poetry Infinitives, gerunds, nouns, adjec¬ tives — all these are tools to a more perfect mastery of our own language. All right class, do you sec? exclaims Mrs. Walker as her class discusses American poets. R. Marie Gillette, AB, Augus tana, English. Media Hankins, BA, MA, Au- gustana College, Columbia Uni- versity, English. Sarah C. Laraway, AB, MA, Northwestern University, Col¬ umbia University, English. Bonnie McKelvey, AB, Augus- tana, English. Genette Melbourne, BE, West¬ ern Illinois, English. Nicholas Peschang, AB, MA, Loras College, State Univer¬ sity of Iowa, English, Journal¬ ism, Crimson Crier, Wotch- tower.

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Alan Docktermon, Judy Eldred, and Clyde Nassau delve into various articles of a French newspaper. Amo, Amos, Amot . . . Buenos Dias . . . Merci . . . From conjuga¬ ting love to booming out good day to responding with a romantic French thank you, the Rocky linguist finds many uses for his talents. While at¬ tempting to master the complexities of Spanish, French, or Latin, the stu¬ dent must learn strange-sounding con¬ jugations, backward sentence struc¬ tures, and even the use of upside down question marks at the beginning of questions. Janice O ' Melia and Booker Cole ad¬ mire a pihata. used at the annual Pin- ata Party. Complexities of Foreign Conquered by Young Linguists John W. Blomberg, AB, MA, Augustana, University of Iowa, Kathryn Boyd, AB, Augustana Spanish, Pan-American League, College, Spanish, Pan Amer- Boys ' Hi-Y. icon League. Kathleen Buren, BA, University of Iowa, French, English, French Club, Y-Teens, Sopho¬ more Class Sponsor. Alverda Doxey, AB, MA, West¬ ern College for Women, Uni¬ versity of Iowa, Latin. 22