Royal Oak High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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ENGLISH CLASSES Tradilionally, English classes musl be laken, bul are nol lo be enjoyed. This is a very bad silualion, since English is our nalive longue, and lo be con- sidered lilerale, we musl have al leasl a parlial grasp ol il. This piclure ol dislress is rapidly changing in ROHS, however. Visual educalion, phonograph records, recording devices, and beller books are supplemenling lhe regular educalional aids. Soon T.V. will be used lo increase lhe polen- lial scope ol learning. Many more valuable and inleresling new leaching lechniques can be loreseen. The lulure looks rosy lor lhe new slu- denls, bul our years wenl somelhing like lhis: ln lhe ninlh grade ROHS freshmen ballled dia- graming from Warriners Handbook and spelling in English classes. Tenlh grade classes concenlraled on lhe classics, Silas Marner, and lhe Rime of lhe Ancienl Mariner. And since no sophomore year would be complele wilhoul coming lo bury Caesar, lhe sludenls read Shakespeare's lragedy. English 5 classes meanl speeches galore lo all iun- iors in Miss Breclaw's and Mr. Mead's speech classes. American lileralure was covered by English 6 slu- denls. Their reading inlroduced lhem lo lhe blood and lhunder sermons ol Jonalhan Edwards and lhe sublle humor ol James Thurber. Then came English 7 and 8 lealuring Shakespeare, Millon, Chaucer, Keals, Shelly, and Charles Dickens. Upon gradualion sludenls had received a well- rounded background in English. They, ol course, were glad il was all over, bul lhey realized lhal il was worlhwhile. 4 Dynamic Mr. Coughlin puls across a poinl in his advanced comp class al lhe beginning ol lhe day ll.l, bul by lale allernoon labovel he is x hausledl 10

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The firsf ray in fhe prism focused on our classes, fhose sessions in which we con- finued fo sfruggle wifh readin', wrifin', and 'rifhmefic. As freshmen, we were puzzled by all fhe adiusfmenfs of high school, buf even more so by some of our courses. Al- gebra was a foreign language fhaf we had frouble inferprefingg English was fhe same old fhing, buf somehow if managed fo be- come even more complicafed: and in our civics classes, we forgof whaf was norfh and whaf was soufh in our sfafe. Sophomore classes held a wider variefy of fhings abouf which fo learn. Those infer- esfed in commercial and secrefarial work fook fyping and shorfhand, while vocafion- ally minded sfudenfs began work in fhe shops. ln connecfion wifh refailing and ofher com- mercial courses, some of us worked in fhe co-op fraining program, doing secrefarial work, selling, and somefimes bookkeeping. College prep sfudenfs delved info world hisfory and a foreign language, and every- one read Julius Caesar. When we reached our iunior year, we be- gan fo feel more like upperclassmen. Our work remained a challenge fo us, nonefhe- less, and U.S. hisfory and advanced algebra caused much forn hair and chewed pencils. We began our senior year under new cir- cumsfances. For fhe firsf fime, we were' wifhouf homerooms, and classes lasfed from eighf in fhe morning unfil almosf five in fhe affernoon. Many of us found schedules a liffle inconvenienf, buf we learned fo fake fhem in sfride. Classes confinued as usual, iusf as inferesfing and especially excifing, for graduafion was only fen monfhs away. We fried fo reduce our class loads fo have fime for senior acfivifies, buf we were sfill able fo sfudy frig, physics, governmenf, and advanced comp. As iuniors in chemisfry, we learned how fo blow up fhe school, buf in sociology, we learned why we shouldn'f. Some classes we liked: ofhers we felf were forced upon us, buf as we look back on fhem, we realize fhaf fhey were all a neces- sary parf of our preparafion for fhe fufure.

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ln English 6, Bonnie Rechl, Lisbelh Nisbell, Joan Millard, Sharon Marlin, Sharon Mac- Kinder, Dick Lechleilner, and Gene Fran- cis ponder over lheir reading assignmenls. Going over some exciling deleclive slories in English 2 are ll. lo r.l Jim Leach, Anila Pellersson, Pele Raymoure, and Lanelle Uplon. Rose Marie Loomis, Barb Ballzly, Margarel Bearess, Marcia Bracher, and Ron Jones seem unconvinced as Mr. Morren poinls oul how imporlanl lhe diclionary is lo advanced comp sludenls. Parlicipaling in a panel discussion in Mrs. Goodrich's English 3 class are ll. lo r.l Kennelh Collier, Miles Young, John Rub- erl, Rila Michel, and Bill Oleshansky. Ray Veiack, a very happy corpse, plays Julius Caesar wilh ll. lo r.l Phyliss Man- kee, Karen Lasl, Mike Jackson, Suzelle Kirkpalrick, and John Davis laking supporl- ing roles, in English 4. ll looks like-Chuck Charmalgiland Mr. Rosen are havingfa dilference ol opinion on an English Yfqueslion., Mickey Beigler, Fred Nahabedianpland Marciag Willmer follow lhefaclion inlenllyg' ' - Norma Webb gels some lips from her ad- vanced speech leacher, Mr. James Mead, on how lo use lhe microphone. Nancy Eddy, Roberla Bouchard, Dale Palmer, Melvin Oiala, Tom Hahn, Mike Aposlall, and Dave Sanford ll. lo r.l lislen, loo. Judy Angeloscci, Carlin Orr, Harold Las- kie, Dick MacDonald, and Joyce Andrea- son ll. lo r.l pay close allenlion lo a speech by Joe Murray in Miss Breclaxffs English 5 class. 'II - lm