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

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NOTE: The script” of this Oak was written for you, by you. As a one day project, mem- bers of several English classes analyzed their courses. From these assorted reviews, the book's producers, the editorial staff, chose the best ones to represent each department of study. English English is ... Finding out how many people confuse Adam and Noah . A pain in the neck because all we do is talk about the future . Analyzing a good book until you don't like it anymore .. . Hating grammar and finding out that your teacher loves it ... Finding out that your adjective is really an adverb and that your subject is really a predicate .. . Memorizing your 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen' speech and then finding out that it isn't your part ... Learning 'practical' words that you'll never hear or use again . ... Finding out that the teacher isn't going to collect the only assignment that you did all year . . . Learning how to spell your graffiti correctly ... A language that confuses all Americans. ••Won't you come into my gynarchy? asks the Queen, Patricia Turner. Virginia O'Malley Georgette Salidas Jean Smith George Baughn looks up from the papers he is marking during his preparation period Cathy Prcgmon Gloria Sassani Patricia Turner Janice Reeder Theresa Sisk John Young 19

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William Keller is obviously the successor to the House of Tudor. Tricia Comey adds new touches to the English Resource Center. George Baughan Joelyn Boyd Carol Hodgkins William Brobst James Comey John Connor Annette Day Arthur Doyle James Fegcly Anne Froio Frances Gamble Martha Ivers William Keller Helen Kirschbaum Louise Maier 18

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Joanne Bowers Eleanor Casciano Barbara Conway Leonard D'Amico Gail Feehan Helen Siti Kathleen Lawler Bruce Leiby Alice Markiewicz Business Ed Typing is ... Papers with car- bon paper and finding out your carbon paper was in backwards . .. Typing a whole assignment correctly then finding out you typed the wrong one ... After a whole period of messing around, hearing your teacher is collecting the papers .. . Tak- ing a timing and running out of paper in the middle of it ... Typing twenty-five words a minute with nineteen mistakes . .. 'Taking a timing and find- ing out when you have finished the machine was on stencil .. . Losing your place during a tim- ing test ... Thinking you are typing the right letter without looking, but you look and find out it is the wrong letter ... Taking a timing and finding out your fingers are on the wrong keys. Eleanor D'Amelio leads her class in morning prayer or a speed timing on some of those really intellectual sample sentences.