Wakefield High School - Starstone Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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— - 1 22 Looking for last minute books, Mona Lee Hall and Michael Mor- ris wait for Miss Kendrick to make out library passes. MRS. MARJORIE ACKER MR. ERIC CHRISTENSON MISS LETITIA MRS. ELLEN MRS. JANE MRS. SYLVIA ARNOLD BARTLETT BERGER BIRDSEYE MISS MARGUERITTE MISS ROSIANN MR. GERALD MRS. MARLENE CRAWFORD GEFEROFF GROVES HERZIG 16 A World ‘ : i j re :

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Ciassics Are Read By Upperclassmen Inherent in the philosophy of the English Department at Wakefield is a recognition of the individual differences of the student and the belief that a student should be working at the optimum of his potential but should not feel defeated by extreme pressures of keen competition. The students in the upperclass have broadened their reading experiences through studying some of the great works such as Macbeth, Beowulf, and Paradise Lost. In addition, many students have been offered a course in the English-Art-Music Seminar. This course is concerned with linking the studies of these through disciplines and to teach students to better appreciate all of them. Seminar students are given the chance to see and hear many of the fine artists in the Washington area as well as an opportunity to take the annual trip to New York. The program is concerned with giving students a strong English background in preparation for their future whatever it may be. Miss Herzig discusses the symbolism in one of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” MISS UFR: ANG al RUSSELE= eee Z a RUSSELL a MRS. VIRGINIA BERGSTEN MRS. GAIL HERR MR. BENJAMIN HOLT MISS ROSEMARY MEYER MISS MARJORY RICHMOND =

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of Letters O8 THE SCARLET HE NETTER As students listen attentively, Mrs. Bartlett explains one of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. is Opened This year an attempt was made to introduce new and more enriching material into the junior English curriculum. Gerald Groves and Lettie Arnold combined American Literature and American History in order to avoid repetition, thereby offer- ing more time for topics of interest to the student. Concen- tration of study has been in Puritanism, Westward move- ment, modern literature, and composition. Tenth. grade English has been a year of transition with review of grammar and oral communication, and a preview of the novel and the drama. Along with various parallel readings, the sophomore class read Silas Marner and Julius Caesar. Mr. Groves and Miss Arnold grade papers on a break in the teacher’s lounge. | : MRS. ELIZABETH JACKS MRS. CONSTANCE LEIBOWITZ MRS. TANYA O’DONNELL MRS. ELIZABETH SHELDON MRS. MARY TOIVANEN MRS. MARY KENDRICK MRS. MARY ANN LIPFORD MR. MELVIN REED MRS. MORA SHELL MRS. MARY WILLINGHAM