Valley Forge High School - Archive Yearbook (Parma Heights, OH)

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ENGLISH STUDIES SERVE AS A PREPARATORY .M Miss Lmda Callan Miss Judith Crockett Mr. Richard Curren Mr, Thomas Dunford Chairman Mrs Edith Foland Miss Barbara Grieder Mrs. Margaret Hall Miss Donna Hitt Miss Valerie Konzen Throughout his three years at Valley Forge, the VF student studied English. As a sophomore member of a basic, regular, or honors English class, he concen- trated mainly upon learning to express himself more clearly and correctly in both speaking and writing. The tenth grade courses also provided a firm literary foun- dation through a consideration of the literature of the world. The junioryear found grammar being progressively de-emphasized as the student explored the feelings of his own countrymen more deeply through the prose, poetry, and plays of past and present Americans. As a senior, the VF student discovered that he could choose college prepara- tory English or English IV. During this year, he employed all the skills of reading, writing, and interpretation that he had been taught, as he read and considered the aspects of English literature. The English department, under the leadership of Mr. Thomas Dunford, also included journalism, dramatics, speech, and debate classes. Departmental activities included the production of the school newspaper, the Battlecryg the literary magazine, the Anvil, and the yearbook, the Archive.

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES CHALLENGE STUDENTS Miss Mary Chambers Miss Thelma Kanaris Beginning classes of French, Spanish and German were taught by the audio-lingual method which helped students in the foreign language department to improve their pro- nunciation. While these students were learning the fundamentals, the advanced classes participated in outside activities to broaden their knowledge of a particular language. The members of the third year Russian class attended a showing of War and Peace, and fourth year French students visited a restau- rant specializing in French food. The chairman of this department was Mr. Francis Germane. Mr. F Miss Lynne Grathwol Mr. Robert Reitz Mrs. Gail Wagner , 2 S 2 X Latin students, Carol Lohman and Karen Weber, enjoy a skit depicting Roman life 17

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COURSE FOR BOTH COLLEGE AND LIFE Mrs. Gloria Kopen Miss Lillian Korba Mrs. Jacquelyn Mayer Miss Vivian Mueller 3, S Mr. Lawrence Orosz Mr. Edward Potokar Mrs, Sally Schroeder Miss Janice Viseomi Mr. Jerry Younger Correcting and grading senior English themes, the composition aids, Mrs. Kay Hoying and Mrs. Irene Shestina, lighten the burden of the senior English teachers. I 19