Scotch Plains Fanwood High School - Culmen Yearbook (Scotch Plains, NJ)

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E GLIH Some of us studied foreign languagesg others of us delved into the intricacies of rnathg many of us pursued the study of science-but all of us had Work in English for all four of our S.P.F.H.S. days. YVe read and we read and we read and We readg we wrote and we wrote and we wrote and we Wroteg We spoke and We spoke and we spoke and we spolceg we listened and we listened and we listened and We listened. fThus it was that the English Department tried to carry out its four-fold purpose of having us learn to read for enjoyment and knowledge, to write with elearness, accuracy, and effectiveness, to speak with ease and eoneiseness, and to listen with courtesy and alertnessj Only time will tell how adept We became in these arts but this we do know- VV e shall not pass this way againf, MISS EDITH HIGGINS Literature dominates, serves beyond all iw

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LIBRARY MISS LORAINE AYERS Somewhere, in the magazines or the books lining the shelves of our spacious library, information on almost any subject can be found. With the aid of Miss Ayers, our efficient librarian, and Mrs. Turner, her assistant, students can locate research material or a good book to read. To make it easy to find and use informa- tion, the library includes such facilities as a card catalogue, in- dex table, files, and a large collection of reference books. Interest- ing material may be found in the cleverly arranged display cases and on the bulletin boards. The Bibliochatf' the magazine pub- lished by the Library Council, is still another way of keeping up with the informative reading material that is to be found in our beautiful and growing library. A man ought to read 1ast as inclination leads him? - N r-1-Q...,,,

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9259 rd 5 6 I2 I5 I9 2.0 26 Z7 Language is as much an art as painting or music or literature. Gclofs 10 l959 mm-gd. jgudi vendredv sensed: dfmnnfhf l 2 5 4 Z' ,E , Jfwtf If LANGUAGES MISS EDITH PITCHER As you walk through the language wing ?Habla Vd., Espanol?, Parlez-vous Francais?, Dices Latinam?, drift out in- to the corridor, giving it an atmosphere different from the rest of the building. Thus it is that far-away countries come nearer to our homeland through the study of various foreign tongues. In our school, French and Spanish are taught as modern con- versational languages, while Latin is also offered as a basis for these present-day languages and English. In the third year of the modern languages the student is expected to read selected literature outside of class and report upon it. In the classes, also, the culture of the country is taught to supplement the language as well as to make the course more enjoyable for the students. 10