Westerville High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Westerville, OH)

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ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES: LATIN, FRENCH, AND SPANISH Mr. Stallings supplements his English courses with perceptive tales of his experiences with human nature. A new teacher, Mrs. Johnston, is saddled with the responsibility of shaping the un- developed freshmen minds in her English classes. H tr 1 u A ' m i 5I i0I$ I L 7 IP Msl «s English and Social Studies classes keep Mrs. Ray busy during the school year. Mrs. Tobias is doing an exceptional job of impressing on Senior English students the problems of transition from high school to college.

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Mr. Morris draws upon his years of experience to func- tion ably as Assistant Superintendent of Schools. The expanding curriculum at W.H.S. is a direct result of the efficiency of T. V. Ban- croft, our curriculum director. As guidance counselor, Mr. Hanny is re- sponsible for giving aptitude tests and help- ing in the decision of colleges. Mrs. O ' Keefe, the school nurse, is burdened with the real and imagined ills of the student body. A new member of the W.H.S. administra- tion, Mr. Alvarado, is the school psychologist, which here is a decidedly full-time job. Jr,Am! $ ■■j 5 ' ' P5 », , . 1 Mb » SH V- ■■ ' r 15 S jt - — ' k 1 Jb % Miss Zora Yoemans at her position behind the front office desk is usually the recipient of the various complaints brought to the office. Secretaries of Board of Education: Mrs. Grace Shelly, Mrs. Joan Gould, Mrs. Gertrude Drewes, Mrs. Marjorie Meyer.

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As we arrive in the world of nouns and pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, we see the freshmen brow beat- ers, Mrs. Johnston and Mrs. Wadley, performing the excit- ing whims of English. Our next stop is at an interjection! We find sophomore tribunes to Julius Caesar with Mr. Stallings and Mr. Lotz. You say you don ' t know what a preposition is? Well, Mrs. Ray can explain the whole or- deal to you juniors. Finally, we reach the co-ordinate con- junction of the English language to English literature. Who else could connect these two but Mrs. Tobias? Ask any freshman or sophomore taking Latin what his favorite subject is. If he or she is taking Latin, one will invariably get the same answer . . . lunch! Mrs. Kempshall guides the declension-blinded students through the laby- rinths of Latin. Monsieur Lotz dictates to the class. N ' ecrivez pas dans ce livre. The French 2 students are naturally very exper- ienced and can translate this incredibly complicated exam- ple of French syntax in a little under an hour. One of the high points of the year was the student plot to destroy the school ' s tape recorder. Please, ma ' am, we didn ' t mean to do that . . . You aren ' t really going to give us a test! This is a typical plea of the studious rowdies in Mrs. Near ' s Spanish class. The most frequent sentence spoken in class by Mrs. Near is: Usted es impossible! Mrs. Kempshall teaches Latin, the so-called dead language, which is still very alive in its English derivatives. Mr. Lotz is using his experience of years in France to pound the language into the heads of his pupils. Senorita Near has charge of all the Spanish- speaking aspiring youths in Westerville.