Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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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.

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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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MATHEMATICS 3y-I 4 l6Z-Sl -x20 DIVISION AND DIVERSION Leaming plus digression characterizes Mr. Gorkin. IF . . . THEN . . .D Geometric principles are discussed by Mr. Wiseman. THAT ILLUSIVE TERM Puzzled, popular Miss Fox stands accused before grinning class. As industry cries for engineers and mathematicians, more and more emphasis is being put on math in high school. Tenally High has met this demand by expanding its curriculum to include a series of rigorous courses from Algebra I to an introduction to calculus and probability. In Algebra I students continually learn the value of x, as it appears from time to time inadistance, ratio, and mix- ture problems.. Here are taught the basic fundamentals of algebraic relationships, useful' throughout life, but especially in Algebra II. If Plane Geometry follows ,Algebra I, then . . . Popular geometry teacher Mr. Wiseman claims that he is very definitely teaching Euclid's geometry which is 2,000 years old. The only difference is in some of his teaching methods which are not 2,000 years old. For the college-bound mathemati- . g f cian, Tenally has supplemented B. P . I TOHN,,iDik'i n its trigonometry and solid ge- A.B., TIC. A r r r BA., 01T1eU'Y. Courses with af1a1YtiC I KEEN I r It f geometry, an introduction to .A.B., M.Ed., Pennsylvaxxiastate LAWRENCE p calculus, and the theory of limits. Pail- i Busby Sta 1 ' CONSTRUCTIONS MADE EASY Aiding I. Tappan with a parallelogram is Mr. Penny. MASTER MATHEMATICIAN With meticulous accuracy, Mr. Keen records those infemal grades. .7 .f,f :e,7gZl.l.,i1 . sf emma,-1l