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

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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.

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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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Mrs. L. M. Jones A.B., Bennett College Further study: Gardner-Webb College TRODUCES STUDENTS TO CULTURE OF OTHER NATIONS The aim of the foreign languages department is to introduce students to the ideas and customs of other nationalities through the study of oral language and literature. A better understanding and greater apprecia¬ tion of the English language is encouraged through these studies. The language department has access to one well equipped language laboratory where each student has an individual microphone. This laboratory, together with modern teaching methods, enable the language students to enhance their ability to speak as well as write the languages they are learning. At Penn, French is offered three years and Spanish, two years. In French class, the students examine pamphlets relating to the lesson. Mrs. Melba B. Hill Spelman College, B.A. 39