San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Swinging gaily ttirough their routine, Brenda McTrusty, James Morris, Zane Aschbacher, and Patricia Woodward present a German contribution to the Foreign Language Assembly. ...Present Combined Assembly Since 700 students were enrolled in the Department, in the fall, three additions and two replacements were made to the teaching staff. Although the Department added one course, Portugese, this year, several others will be an- nexed in the fall. They are Japanese, in the Evening Divi- sion, an advanced Spanish course, and a short history of Soviet Russia. Also, language extension courses from the United States Air Force Academy will be offered at SAC in the fall for officers at area bases. Dr. William Samelson, chairman, has instituted month- ly departmental meetings at which regular business, in- structional techniques, and opinions are discussed, and in formal departmental research talks are presented. Walking proudly off the stage with one of the first department awards for being an outstanding French student is Martha Young. 129

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Dr. W ' illi. ' .in Samelscin anJ his entire multi-lingual staff conduct a monthly departmental meeting in English to discuss teaching techniques. Language Students, Dancers In cooperation with the Folk Dance Club, the FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT pro- duced their first language assembly, Breaking the Language Barrier, in February. In observance of Foreign Language Week the two groups combined to present a program in which students of the different languages delivered speeches and translations explaining the dances which followed to represent the countries in which the languages were spoken. Then the danc- ers helped break the barrier with music and rhythm. In another first for the Department, the out- standing language students were honored with the presentation of a set of books at the Annual Awards Assembly. Student body applauded loudly... Thomas Housmann delivers a speech and an ex- planation of a folic dance in German as Nancy Herring stands by to translate. 128

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' 1 i BB 1, Ti 9 11 Pondering a workbook problem, students try to determine the dip and strike of folds, faulfe, anticlines, and synclines in a session. Jerry Smith, sophomore, studies a model showing geomorphology or gla- ciation. These models are used in class- es to help students recognize geologic changes. Geology Lecture Classes Enormous Three field trips to central Texas locations lured more than 150 students of GEOLOGY under the direction of Dr. John Sandidge, Department chairman. Each of the two introductory geology classes visited Llano and Mason counties where they saw, among other geological formations, the Enchanted Rock, a gran- ite batholith whose size is deceiving. Several of the students who viewed this phenomenon said that since there is no other structure of comparable size, the rock looks smaller than it really is. It actually covers 640 acres. In May, second semester introduc- tory course students made an excursion to the Persons Oil Field and large sepa- rating plant in Falls City Oil Field and the Uranium field in northwestern Karnes County. Mary Lou Tamez and Bryan Dunlap, members of a general lab class, microscopically probe rocks to determine the types of fossils that are characteristic of such species. 130