Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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Upper Left: It's serious business when Miss Gaukrodger stresses a point for an absorbed accelerated senior English class. Upper Right: Don't worry, the gun isn't loaded, assures senior Bob Dawson as he demonstrates the weapon for Miss Mowry and public-speaking students. Lower Left: junior journalists take notes as Mrs. Slick directs activities from the back of the Acorn office. Lower Right: The UD English department, which supervises grammar and liter- ature studies for 1600 Upidites, includes-Sealed: Miss Koch, Miss Yerkes, Miss Ferree, Miss Mowry, Miss Weil and Miss Weimerg Standing: Mr. Boyd, Miss Reed, Mr. Noel, Miss Gaukrodger, Mr. Morris, Mrs. Slick and Mr. Miller. Untlei' the chairmanship of Miss Etlith Cvaulcf rutlger. Ulfs English department nf 13 instrucf tors trains every Upitlitc in English fundamentals tluring each nl' his three years un the hill. ln atltlitiun tu regularlyfrcquirecl English courses, inurnalisin .intl tlehating arc electives fur those students who maintain almvefaverage work in English. The department also offers courses in speech arts. puhlic speaking ancl tlrainatics. The intlivitlual English teachers instruct their classes in grammar, literature antl composition all nt' which are neecletl for a wellfrountlecl education. Cmmrelinating their work with the curricular activities uf the English department, two cluhs Pleiaeles antl Tay Vsfistalvan enlarge the tlraf matic antl literary hackgrounels of English students.

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HISTORY Correhiting courses in history, economies :ind current events. the history department, under Mr. Billingsle.i, offers .1 diversified program for UD's soeinlfstudies students. The suhieets offered, which vairy with eurrieulum and grande, include the following: general history, for eommereizil :ind iirtswimlferaitts sophomoresg modern European history, for eollegefprepnriltory sophomoresg Ameriean history, for gill juniors, :ind eeonomies and prohlems of democracy, for eollegefprepzlratf tory seniors. American history, lweeaiuse it is ref quired for .ill eleventh graders, hoaists the greatest enrollment. Wiirkiiig l1ilI1Ll'i1l'll2ll'lLl with the history department, the Wimrld Affairs Forum provides Qin outlet for eurrentfeventfminded history students. The eluh tralnslzites hoth elalssf room learning and other information into delmtes :ind skits which it sponsors in conjunction with similar outside orgiinizzitions. This yeair, for exaimple. it group of :ilmost 40 UD history stu' dents, under the ziuspiees of the WAF, repref sented Egypt in the Civie Forum Lesigueis moek United Nations session :it Temple university. Upper Left: Events, dates and places are in the line of duty for history instructors Mr. Barlieh, Mr. Coffey, Mrs. Abrams, Mr. Wood, Mr. Grimmett, Mr. Shenk, Mr. Brooke, Mr. Wike, Mr. Andersen and Mr. Billingslea. Upper Right: Joan McCrea takes the Hoor in Mr. Coffey's American history class. Lower Left: Current events in the form of the weekly news review are in the spotlight for Mr. Billingslea's POD students. Lower Right: Sociology students pause in note-taking to smile at Mr. Wood's joke. N WM wx ff-'RS ,sb 17

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M v i Witli instructors in hotli the ancient antl motif ern languages, the forcignflanguagc department is ahlv to otiicr courses in Latin, French. German .intl Spanish, Miss lvlary A. Taylor, antl thc six other incinlwrs of the tlcpartlncnt comhinc their It-aching of thc languages with tlcvcloping stu' tlcnts' untlurstantling of the pcoplc who speak them. Augmcnting :lic classroom work, the Latin cluh, lc Ccrclc Francais. tlic Deutsche Gesellf schaft, and la Sociedad Panamcricana provitlc an outlet for use of the languages, in conversation and in song, and for such activities as the prof duction of plays in foreign languages. Through thcsc mctlia, the cultures conncctctl with the languages arc transmitted to the stutlcnts. Thus, the language department helps to instill greater umlcrstantling of other nations in language stu' 5 Fi tlcnts. Upper Left: Advertising the beauties of South America to UD Spanish students is one of Miss Goodman's travel posters. Upper Right: Virgil proves absorbing to the seniors who work with Miss Noble in fourth-year Latin. Lower Left: Miss Taylor indicates the lesson of the day for fellow foreign-language instructors Mr. Clugston, Miss Goodman, Mr. Stermer, Miss Chris- man, Miss Grunberg and Miss Noble. Lower Right: It's right there, sophomore Gini Trimble asserts, pointing out Paris for members of Miss Chrisman's French II class. AVS' ' +V cgi, :Pio 19 gifs