St Johns High School - Crest Yearbook (Delphos, OH)

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Foreign language skill needed for worldwide understanding Because language, by which people communicate ideas, is the basis of all knowledge, it is beneficial to understand languages besides one ' s own. Knowledge of a foreign tongue opens a whole new field of study, making the people, customs, viewpoints, and literature of other countries more alive, and is important for world cooperation and peace. It is through speaking that friendships are made and differences worked out. Of the three foreign languages offered this year Latin, the father of the modern Romance languages, is the basic tongue. Students who take four years of Latin become acquainted with early classical literature, like that of Cicero and of Vergil. Spanish, now offered to St. John students on a shared-time basis at Jefferson, profits a student intending to travel, because it is the native tongue of so many countries. Through the works of great French writers, French has become familiar to well-educated people, and is often used as the common language at international gatherings. A relatively new subject at St. John, the course uses records stressing idiomatic conversation. 25

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ABOVE: David Alt and Karl Plumpe wait for help with Spanish II in Mrs. Strayer ' s class at Jefferson. TOP RIGHT: Sister M. St. Catherine ' s French II students, intently working on translation, are not distracted by a committee specially assigned to decorate the bulletin board. RIGHT: Lenore Shumaker and Walter Rem- linger learn to think of everything before answering in Latin I for Sister M. Victor. 24

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Using complicated business machines is routine for office practice students Darlene Pothast, Maicia Pohlman, Mary Bohnlein, and Katherine Maas. Students diligently watch Mr. Kapp as he instructs them in economics. 26 !