Southside High School - Southerner Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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MISS FRAN CASSID Y, B.A., M. E. D., French, English, sponsor: Le Cercle Francais du Sud,' MR. JOHN CROSSNO, B.A., German, English, sponsor: Der Deutsche Verein,' MRS. BILL Y M. DYKES, B.A., Spanish, sponsor: Los Rebeldesg MRS. ROSE GREGOR Y, B.A., M.S., Latin, English, sponsor: R.O.M.E. Conjuga ting verbs isn 't as difficult as it seems. As Mark Watson, Jeffrey Ferrell, Lesa Griner, and Margaret Russell compare notes in Latin ll, they dis- cover they all came up with the same form of the verb, FOREIGN LANGUAGE 29

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Translation of simple dialogue assists first-year Spanish students Mike Pickle and Ronald Rankin in their study Q of the Spanish language. .. . Foreign language classwork ranged from the traditional to the new this year as students enrolled in Spanish, French, German and 1 . F Latin. ln Spanish, classes were able to test their ability to communicate in iffissr- Q another tongue by conversing with Jose Miguel Pilona Ataujo, a native Q9- ot El Salvador who spent his Christ- mas holidays with a Southsider, different lands and culture While the Spanish students dis! played their oral talents, those in French composed paragraphs of their homelife in that language. German students collected a wide range of material from magazines to newspapers in an effort to better understand the German culture. Culture was also on the minds of Latin students, as they went back many centuries to ancient Rome to study the customs and contribu- tions of this civilization. t 157 'fl r . ,giraffe lfisis ...,..,-,...,g -1 kf - ily, gina ill ina: Starting the day differen tly, Kay 2 Rappeport and Susan McCollough V VVVVVV M V Q try to tackle the morning ' ' 0 anouncemen ts in French. , 28 FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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Preparation is what it takes to make a project as Larry Jackson completes his work on the musemobile which later toured local elementary schools. Disecting, experimenting, and problem solving represented only a few ofthe traditional activities in the Science and lVlath Departments this year. However, timely subjects also received attention in these fields of study. For instance, the environment served science ond molhemolics departments as the basis for a project completed 30 SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS by students in lVlr. Larry Withers' biology class. Preparing the school system's museumobile with sculptures and other exhibits, these students completed the environmental display so that it could be toured to elementary schools this year. Change took place in mathematics with the dropping of advanced arithmetic. Algebra l replaced the former course, and along with geometry, Algebra ll, and llllath Analysis, gave math students a wide range of study. Describing a sphere is not easy as Sarah Minchew tries to describe iris char- acteristics in Mrs. Sue Dicksonis geometry class. x