William Penn High School - Penn Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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50K 5 e Ao Miss E. L. McConnell B.A., Bennett College Furthur Study- A T State University Catholic University of America U.N.C.-CH., U.N.C.-G. East Carolina University FICANCE OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS solutions to them, the students begin to show signs of maturity and of becoming responsible citizens in a democratic society. Each year the department has grown more thorough in its desire to arouse student’s interest in history and this year was no exception. In order to give students a better understanding of communism and its threat to the free world, some of the democracy classes read J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit and submitted book reviews on his commen¬ tary. Here Mrs. Coston, a practice teacher from Agricultural Tech¬ nical State University, points out areas of expansion of Islam. 37

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Through television teaching, U. S. History students gain wider perspective. SOCIAL STUDIES SHOWED THE SIGNI Under the direction of Miss E. L. McConnell, and Mrs. S. Little, the social studies department sought to offer the students valuable information on past and present historical developments. Courses offered by the department were United States history, world his¬ tory, and problems of democracy. In history, the stu¬ dents learn both the background and the working of today’s modern government. A thorough course in de¬ mocracy analyzes the problems, both personal and social, which confuse and perplex young people. By facing these problems and seeking to find meaningful Mrs. Shirley Little B. A., Livingstone College M.A., Atlanta University 36

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Yolanda y Ruben Rojas from Mexico City visited the Spanish students at Penn. m V THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT IN Mrs. Benicia Hernandez Normal School for Teachers Havana, Cuba University of Havana, B.A. Further study: U.N.C.-G.