Roosevelt High School - Rohian Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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The Basic Tool: English According to George Orwell in his book 1981, a person can only think of such ideas as his native lan- guage or knowledge of language can express. Me uses this idea in describing his negative utopia where the government uses a language designed to keep the people from independent thinking. George Bernard Shaw had a similar view in mind when he wrote the play Pygmalion”, w'hich became the basis of the musical “My Fair Lady.” He wanted to prove that a person is classified by the language he uses. The vast majority of students at VHS do not have as serious an accent as Shaw’s “murderer of the Eng- lish longue , Eliza Doolittle, or the ominous govern- mental threat of Orwell’s character. Winston Smith, hut the illustration will suffice to prove a point: with- out a formal, regimented study of one’s native lan- guage to increase one’s ability to communicate profi- ciently, a student would be ill-fit to live or prosper satisfactorily. Mrs Mary Harrington looks for articles of interest to her English stu- dents 12

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Class for Creativity. . . Illustrating a point on the board is part of Miss Eileen Willms job. Mrs. Laverne Hurd corrects one of the many tests given to her eager students. Mrs. Jean Stolberg finds the library a perfect place to prepare assignments for her English 12 classes.