University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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for Understanding MR. DALE LANGE, French instructor, and Dr. Emma Birkmaier, department head, could often be found discussing future plans for the instruction of Modern Languages. PLANNING HER LESSON for the next day, Mrs. Elfi Terp, German instructor, paused while typing. FLUENT RUSSIAN could be heard coming from the classroom of Mr. Donald Ryberg. 19

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MR. RAMFDO SAUCEDO was often seen making arrangements for the annual trip to Mexico. Languages Strive The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we arc thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. Herelock Ellif Application of this statement can definitely be related to the Modern Language department at U High. Under the direction of Dr. Emma Birkmaier, the students at U High are receiving thorough backgrounds in the mastery of a foreign tongue. Through the use of language laboratories, tapes, records, movies and slides the students were aided in their studies. A six-year program in German, Russian, and Spanish with the addition of French and Chinese have given the students a variety of languages enabling classes to gain a more extensive knowledge of other countries and cultures. The importance of interesting high school people in modern languages has long been realized at U High. This resulted in the introduction of Russian as a part of the curriculum sixteen years ago. Since that time many other schools in the United States have realized the importance of a modern language. The innovation of Chinese is another step in recognizing the importance of a foreign tongue since it is spoken by over one-fourth of the people in the world. With modern communications and travel improving, our world desperately demands a better exchange of ideas and opinions between peoples. TAKING TIME OUT from teaching, was Miss Shirley Krogmeier. MRS. SUSAN PASSOLT showed a look of approval as one of her French students answered a question.

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DR. ROBERT RANDLEMAN resumed hi many responsibilities as Unified Arts department head. 'The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. Goethe Under the supervision of Dr. Robert Randleman, the Unified Arts program, composed of art, music, industrial arts and home economics, strove to achieve certain goals. Primary emphasis was placed upon individual development as well as on stimukting creativity in students. Making colbges, block prints and bronze sculptures were only a few of the creative efforts produced in the Art department. Seventh and eighth graders spent one-fourth of the year in art, while older students took advanced art for the entire year. The Music department offered courses only on the junior high level teaching the aspects of music appreciation as well as directing choral groups and band ensembles. Within the Industrial Arts department, the whir of circubr saws and drills could be heard as senior high students worked on their projects. At the junior high level, the seventh and eighth grade boys spent half the year learning basic skills. A similar program for seventh and eighth grade ?;irls was instituted in home economics. Aromas of reshly baked cookies and cakes wafted out of the kitchens as students worked on meal planning and preparation, one of many units in homemaking. Art, Home Ec, Music, Industrial INDUSTRIAL ARTS was taught to the seventh and eighth grades by Mr. David Pixel. NINTH GRADERS learned drafting and other skills from Mr. Frank Pratzner. U HIGH GIRLS learned their homemaking skills from Mrs. Jesus Engel-mann. 20