Schuyler High School - Warrior Yearbook (Schuyler, NE)

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pkdgf alive R , 5 . U Speech English Athletics Darrel Kluck and Delores Svoboda are returning their SRA booklets after completing one exercise. Languages Teach Today English is not simply grammar, but it includes such things as Writing poetry and short stories, taping radio broadcasts, dis- cussing the reason behind a character's actions, and analyzing Writing styles. A visitor might Walk into an English class to find a student dramatizing a character from a play. He also might see students taking ex- tensive notes on a literature lecture. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, echoed through the halls as the seniors fran- tically memorized a short excerpt from Macbeth, which Was read in senior English. In c r e a s i n g the students' reading speed was encouraged by the SRA reading program Which is taken by the freshmen. This program includes timed readings and questionings. A monthly routine in most English classes is ordering paper-back books from high school book clubs. Many of the Worlds' best sellers are offered to the students at reduced rates.

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Commercial Courses Provide Wide Choio 1 L? r Joan Svoboda, Diane Hoppe, Mrs. Kluck, Donna Jisa, and Dona Woods are making preliminary plans for a vocal concert program in office practice. Anyone wishing to take a commercial course has a Wide choice from which to choose---typing, shorthand, office practice, bookkeeping, or jour- nalism. The key Words in typing and shorthand are speed and accuracy, accomplished by practice. Office practice, a combination of both preceding courses, is taken by the seniors. One Week out of the year students taking office practice Work for local businessmen. In bookkeeping a student gets a chance to use the adding machine While learning bookkeeping procedures. Journalism students are responsible for printing the school paper, the TOM-TOM. Arlene Kluck, B. S., Commercial, Sophomore Classg Alvin Dietrich, B. A., Commercial, Ath- letics. Mary Schneider sells a TOM-TOM to Mary Jo Cerny and Charlene Hespe.

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The German Club served a banquet to its members, Miss Kellenberger, teacher aid, was in charge of the principal and superintendent, and Miss some German classes during her stay at SHS. Kellenberger. Communication Arts The German classes took on an international flavor for seven Weeks with the presence of Miss Erika Kellenberger of Switzerland. Miss Kellenberger visited six different schools and helped students to improve their conversational German. The German Club, recognized by the Student Council this year, increased to 33 members, attended a Song Festival at Creighton University in Omaha. The Club also sponsored a banquet for its members with German food prepared by some of the members. To be a member of the German Club, a student had to take, or be enrolled in, the German course for at least one year. ln addition to the three-year German pro- gram SHS offers a tvvo-year Latin course. ln this class the students study the derivation of many Words used in everyday life. In the second year course they studied mythology and Caesar's Commentaries. Helen Saeger, M.A., Latin l,lI, National Honor Societyg Mary Pape, B. A., German I, II, German Club. 31