Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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Somewhere beyond the transient world of the five senses lies the elusive meaning and purpose of all existence, and in the English courses students examine the attempts of some of history's most inspired literary geniuses to unravel the mysteries of life. Freshmen must come to grips with the profound themes of The Old Man and the Sea, The Pearl and Romeo and Juliet, while Jonathan Edwards' sinners and T. S. Eliot's hollow men represent for sophomores the disparate views of individual American writers. Long before the advent of EIiot's objective cor- relative, or even Edwards' hell and brimstone, Chaucer penned his amusing commentary on human nature in The Canterbury Tales, and Milton meditated on God, Satan, and the Fall in Paradise Lost. ln their study of British Literature English lll students meet such incon- gruous characters as Macbeth, Daisy Miller, Eustacia Vye, and Don Juan, strange bedfellows in England's literary tradition of fine writing. ln the Senior year students climax their study of English with a broad introduction to the Humanities. The mystical East confronts the rational West as ethereal strains from the Tao Te Ching and the Upani- shads intermingle with the heavy tragedy of Aga- memnon and Oedipus Nectar in a Sieve and The Plague represent contemporary Eastern and Western views of existence and exemplify the variety of indi- vidual answers posed by man to the riddle of life. Students learn to express vocally their own inter- pretations of life and its problems in the speech and dramatics courses. Through the skillful manipulation of diction and intonation, facial expression, and bodily movement, students find an effective means of con- veying their individual ideas. 1 Mr. Lowell Battey lectures on the various aspects of American Literature. Literature Enlightens Having just corrected his last composition, Mr. Edward Coghlan beams happily. Essays are returned, graded by Mr. Francis Platt.

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P ' .J -.1 . f S i X i- Q. we A-B requirements send Micki Bauer to history shelves in the library. Library Hums LEWIS N. BROWN A.B., Columbia M.A., T.C. Columbia Freshman Class Advisor Louis L'Heureux researches topic for English term paper. KENNETH L. KARRH B.S., Ball State University M.A., Ball State University Dramatics Club Junior-Senior Play Foreign Policy Club ALICE S. LALOR B.A., Grove City M.S.L.S., Case Western Reserve Library Junior Staff JOHN P. MULLIN B.S., Missouri State M.A., Missouri State Assistant Football Coach JOSEPHINE YURESKO B.A., Montclair State M.A., Montclair State Freshmen Cheerleaders Mrs. Barbara Ghnouly and Mrs. Alice Lalor follow Mets' baseball games rather than check out books. l7

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Mr. Robert Thoman emphasizes some themes and central ideas in Daisy Miller. Artistic D0Sf9f dl5PlaY Pie-3595 MVS- Leo MCCa fhYf i ha.. Puritan myth destroyed by Mr. George Reilly. Mrs, Beatrice Tukesbury recites poetry. Students gravely listen to the instructions of Mrs, Gertrude Fass before numbering their test papers. LOWELL V. BATTEY B.A., University of Denver Certificate: Old Vic, Bristol England Director, All School Play EDWARD M. COGHLAN B.A., Iona College GERTRUDE FAS5 B.A., Hunter College Unicorn Advisor LEO D. MCCARTHY B.A,. Manhattanville M.A., Columbia Sophomore Class Advisor Communications Committee FRANCIS J. PLATT B.S., Notre Dame M.Ed., Penn. State Future Teachers Tennis Coach GEORGE REILLY B.A., Randolph-Macon M.A.T., Jersey City State Freshman Soccer Coach ROBERT E. THOMAN B.A., Midwestern Forensic Club BEATRICE L. TUKESBURY A.B., Barnard M.A., Columbia SPARCS Dramatics Coach Producer, All School Play 19