Waterford High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Waterford, CT)

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JOHN A. GORMANg Boslon U. A.B.7 Eng- lish. 0 MRS. ELEANOR O. LOVELLp Smith A.B.g English. 0 MRS. RUTH P. OWEN: Minnesota B.S., UCLA, Hawaii: English, school publicity. :m.q its i Globe 5,1

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-...Q -- M513 A H Q4 'A ' eff, JOHN H. ARCHIBALD- UConn A.B. M,A.' English. 0 MISS EMMA M. BURDICK' Alfred A.B. Syracuse- English. 0 MRS. RUTH B. CHILDS- Teachers College of Connecticut Columbia- English speech and drama reading- assistant CHARTER advisor Quill and Scroll sponsor. 0 THOMAS E. DORSEY- Brown A.B. Trinity, English, head of department, assistant football coach, golf coach. English, the only academic course required of each student for four years, has had its largest enrollment this year. With over I,0OO students attending. classes every day, the department has had to increase its staff from nine to I I teachers to be better prepared to instruct these additional eighty students. I They strive to encourage students to read and write on increasingly more mature levels. English land Il teachers begin the four-year instruction by aiding students to recognize complex grammati- cal construction, to increase their vocabulary, and to study various literary works. I Later in English III, the facuIty's maior stress in college prepara- tory classes is an analysis of short stories and poems in American litera- ture, while in the business and general sections, maior stress is placed on correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Emphasis in college preparatory English IV is on coherent and cogent substantiation ofa basic theme in writing, and in analysis of literary works of British and con- tinental authors. The general sections continue with emphasis on complex grammatical problems. O All in all, the department strives for an eleva- tion of literary taste, intellectual integrity, and exactness in writing. This goal tor exact writing to attain exact thinking is becoming more and more important in communication in this increasingly more populated world which is evidenced even here in Waterford by the continued large increase in enrollment. English Needed on Shrinking 14 I

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Language l History of Down through the centuries the families of language and history have lived in close kinship. This tie is most evident to today's student, for he must possess some knowledge of one to fully understand the other, es- pecially in Europe-oriented subiects. 0 As in any family, a new addition is a notable event. At Waterford High the language department an- nounced the arrival of fourteen language lab units to make a total of twenty. The history department has expanded its family by a new three- year requirement for college, general, and business students. The civics course has been replaced with one of world geography to give the student a more immediate and applicable knowledge of the world about him. C Throughout high school the student may select from five foreign lan- guage and eight history courses. From the enrollment of lust over a thousand, 457 are enrolled in a foreign language course and 815 stu- dents are taking history, with some students registered in more than one class. ELSA B. CROSSI.EYp U. A.B.p German, Latin. 0 MISS CAROLYN L. FREDERICK, Connecticut C. B.A., U. of Guadalaiara, Middlebury, Spanish, Basque Club advisor. I MRS. JEAN KELLEYg Bates A.B., .Connecticut C., Central Connecticut State, South- ernt Connecticut State M.S.g latin, head of language department: Junior Classical League advisor. l MISS CAROLINE KlNNEY,'Mount Holyoke A.B., UConn, Sorbonne, Yale, Wesleyan, French, American Field Service advisor. C MISS CONCETTA SIGNORE, New Rochelle A.B., Laval, French: Basque Club advisor. I PAUL SKRIGAN, Amherst B.A., Dartmouth, Middle- Russian. 0 MRS. SALLY T. PAVETTIp Yale M.A.g'5panish, U. S. History,