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

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oken il affairs and l neighbors, LANGUAGES in numerous . pre-recorded erhead projec- erstanding of of the country he Department iered-French. s the facilities 'an. Japanese, e just recently lg at a steady ' there are ap- e night classes age laboratory equipment. the nguages simul- :partrnent into he Department trnent was re- .am Sarnelson, a our foremost e in teaching 2 latest equip- he explained. zo-ed listens 2 of Spanish :nd to meet As often happens in foreign language classes, a humorous situation develops after a word is mispronounced during Dr. Wil- liam Samelson's German 612 class. , x-xg, Students in Mrs. Alba Farfaglias Italian class listen intently as she discusses the work of an Italian artist. In addition to learning the grammatical aspects of the language, students also learn about the ' country's culture and its inhabitants. 1 ,am -Q ,!1t,,,,i,l:,'. ,M ,l.v,',nh,.!,.' I ,HJ , , , I,, 07 I , .M-Y. W. ,,. . ft- ,.1,f,. I, 5 - . ,, , r -., ,,- 'Q4'1'f 1 f , -W H ,,, jf' I 14 .4 'x.l,.,fJ:-Wf' '5i f-f12,ff:'.w','- 1 fe 1-,1-'fm , '.'.-'KV -' .:-' 1 . ' 'f'E - -U1 San Pedro Park provides a change of scenery for a Gennan lecture class under the instruction of Dr. William Samelson, chairman of the Department. Such field trips give students a break from the routine classroom work.

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ffl' .ww Before taking part in a French dialogue session, advanced students in Dr. Marianne Purdy's class check their papers for hard-to-pronounce words. ' Foreign Languages Eleven Tongues Spoken 'cBroaden your knowledge of international affairs and increase your comprehension of our global neighborsf' beckons the DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES as it opens its doors to a world of adventure in numerous lands. Instructors use film strips, slides, records, pre-recorded tapes, charts of idiomatic expressions, and overhead projec- tors to give the students not only a better understanding of the language which they are studying but also of the country itself. Started in 1948 by Miss Mary McGill as the Department of Modern Languages, three languages were offered-French, Spanish and German. Now the department has the facilities to offer French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and the just recently added Norwegian. Size of the department has been increasing at a steady rate of about 15 per cent per year. This year there are ap- proximately 1,300 day students and 600 in the night classes taught by 21 instructors. Open during the day and night is the language laboratory added in 1959. With the latest in electronic equipment, the lab is designed to handle as many as nine languages simul- taneously. In 1961 it was necessary to divide the department into the Department of Germanic Languages and the Department of Romance Languages. ln 1963, the department was re- unified under the chairmanship of Dr. lvilliam Samelson, who st1ll holds this post To serve the community as best we can 15 our foremost 0bJ6ClI1VC states Dr Samelson Excellence 1n teaching plus the use of modern teachln aids and the latest equip ment help us as we work ton ard this goal he explained lfHfl To r fo a language recording in the Library ecewe additional Practice in Spanish this co ed listens J h m gn? lfogan Peffecis 110111 his oral and written use of Spanish I 0 e language labs which students must attend to meet C0lll'S6 Tequlrements 50 0 . . A ' gg . v . 1 ' ' - 77 cc , - ' , . . . D , Q . U . . - f o U r ' l 0' 3, A' I , ., Q e 5 ' . l. l . K Q pkg ' s A , ,A I .3 ,,,..,,..,.,,,..,,,, M. VV .l Q J 4 rw,,,,V .Q M- R ' ' p, NK ' A s , .M ,gil V74 . X XX -faq, 'v ,sf-:H - . , XX lf ,. K -as-......-,,, Q an ,. , ' ' ' , - , re--sw N . ,r-K K, un . ' W- . .g . ' ' ,g1agp'zfga, . ' - - - - - ' u u . v 71... ...1

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Lawns ,..,,, may , . 5 H' ' A symbol of a rockhound, the piCk, is Used bY Mary Seal' t? chip aw upper cretaceous fossils of Navarro formation along the road to Marion. . ,,.,f-rw.,-, -11325 gk, 'A 1, ' Above: Taking a closer look at a Marble Falls granite quarry are'Kenneth Trude, Charles St. Clair and Milton Turner. Below: Information about Saspamco clay pits, which students inspect on their spring tour, is relayed over a megaphone by Dr. John Sandidge. I 'Vw' . Stalagmites in Natural Bridge Caverns hold av the attention of Fred Davis. Geology Tau ht Since l953 Increag and expansion-coupled with informative and enjoyable field trips-have been the watchwords for the GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT since its inception in 1956 under Mr. John Gibson. Geology classes, however, had been taught since 1953. Headed by Dr. John Sandidge since 1960, the depart- ment this year added Mr. Eldon Langford to -its Day 'Di- vision and Mr. John Currie to handle the 21-student night class. Other instructors include Mr. Clyde Dickinson and Mr. Millard 'Brent. Addition of these instructors was due to the steady in- crease of student enrollment. A total of 326 geology students in the fall represented a 20 per cent increase over last year's enrollment. Laboratory accommodations have also grown. Continu- ously from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily there are geology labs in progress. Dr. Sandidge speculates that the demand for well-trained geologists will probably increase for a number of years necessitating a further growth of the SAC depart- ment in an effort to meet this need. During the two annual field trips, students visited Natural Bridge Caverns, Enchanted Rock,ABalanced Rock, Marble Falls, the Llano area, Persons Field and a large gas separat- ing plant. On the SAC campus, one aspect of the Geology Depart- ment that is ofteri overlooked is its maintenance of a r0Ck and fossil museum. Located in the Chemistry-Geology Build- ing basement, the exhibit, which has been collected, bought and donated, ishestimated at an approximate value of 552,500 Makinggup the collection are common, rare and florescent minerals and invertebrate fossils representative of all geo- logic periods among which are a leg bone and tooth of 8 mammoth and a huge dinosaur tract from a coal mine in Utah. A special case is devoted to various kinds of cave de- posits which are characteristic of Texas hill country. F 5. ,Z J swf Q h, ,MJ 5915 5,1 3. Q36 N. 52235 3 - .-T lil -1 ,gf 4 .5-'Il Q' W1 pits 2 Jack: West