Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES Far Away Places With Strange Sounding Names UNE MORT CERTAINE The Senior French III class smiles insanely in she tears the sheets of paper that presage an- the face of Mrs. Ammannos fiendish grin while other of her famous quizzes on the day's lesson. From ageless Latin to newly-important Russian, the foreign language department of Tenafly offers at least three years of five different languages to linguistically inclined students. Latin, the first stepping stone of many language stu- dents, besides the inevitable mountains of grammar and Caesar's Gallic Wars, includes also selections from Homer and Greek myths, including ujason and the Golden Fleece. The much debated purpose of Latin, to teach the roots of English words, is never more defended than on the day of College Boards when the ability to take an educated guessl' as to the meaning of an unknown word is essential. Claiming a deeper purpose, Latin is the basis of all the Romance languages, and is one of the best memory-training courses that can be taken. German students find their language useful both in scientific work and in studying the history of the English language. Many similarities between German and English are found, such as milch and milk, macher and to make, fallen and to fall. Spending the first two years concentrating on reading and translating, German III students proceed to more challenging projects. This year Einstein, Goethe and Schultz were all read in the original and all third year students must be able to work up a three minute speech on a given topic in German with only five minutes to prepare. The newest addition to the foreign language depart- ment, Russian, was taught experimentally this year to LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCY Mr. dePrume mit livre, pense a niet en Esperanto DEGREES MARIA ALBA ARMANNO B.A., Wheaton College M.A., Columbia NICHOLAS R. dePRUME A.B., New York University Certificate, Heidelberg M.A., Middlebury

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SOCIAL STUDIES Citizenship Prep PETERSON ASSIGNMENT Einar Halmoy, our foreign-exchange student from Norway, the United States. In my country, says Einar, the civil discusses differences between the civil war in Norway and in war ended approximately 700 years before yours began . . DEGREES SHIRLEY I. PETERSON B.A., Montclair M.A., Montclair JOHN I. MCDERMOTI' B.A., Villanova M.A., Columbia JOSEPH B. STROMAN B.A., Lehigh M.A., Columbia JUST A LITTLE EXERCISE MR. MAC. Checking one out is Mr. McDermott, ready to punctuate the discussion with taps on the shoulder of his nearest victim. I have some questions for you, diabolically grins Mr. Stroman before issuing one of his map quizzes. K5 Us ff at Me Week - I iv-5. ff'l ' 4 K :JK A, ffl, fx 1 'I fini. .I 52 fwfr his ,Y I as-f ff' ,, .xi

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I .,,gT I FROMAGE', Cheese, implies Miss Lehr, comes from South America. DEGREES MARIANNE LEHR B.A., Cornell M.A., Middlebury I. MENKEN A.B., M.A., Montclair JOHN MURPHY B.A., M.A., Seton Hall University GALLIA EST OMNIA DIVISA EN . . . Eloquently illustrating Caesar's Wars is Mr. Murphy. FOREIGN LANGUAGES Far Away Places With Strange Sounding Names fifteen sophomores who will continue it for the next two years. Judging from the enthusiasm of these sophomores, Russian is about to challenge the position of Spanish and French as the most popular language available. The course of the little Nikita-itesi' includes learning the Russian alphabet and its sounds, memorizing sentences, monologues and dialogues and listening to recordings of folk songs and folk lore, making this course a study not only of the language of the people, but of the people themselves. Los composicionesf' favorites of all Spanish students, is just one of the ways the drudgery of grammar is dis- pelled in THS Spanish classes. Bulletin boards of what's new in Spanish speaking countries are kept by students and supplemented by in-person reports by Miss Lehr about her many trips to Spain. After dwelling on the usual verb conjugations, vocabulary and idioms, Spanish III students progress to reading beautiful and often diffi- cult masterpieces of Spanish literature. French, one of the more beautiful Romance lan- guages, is a favorite of all students interested in literature and of those who hope to travel in Europe. Famous for its impromptu quizzlets and quaint French ditties in the 'French II book, French classes include ever popular grammar drills, oral conversation and famous literature by important French authors. Pronounciation, the neme- sis of all self-conscious adolescent French' students is stressed all three years as learning to speak comme vrai Parisienv is the ultimate goal. LA COMEDIA ESPANOLA Mrs. Menken, C. Griswold, and G. Amick plan a sockeroo for yoo.