William Penn High School - Tatler Yearbook (York, PA)

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STUART E. GLATFELTER Head of Department LANGUA EVERYONE believes in it, of course, but few possess it verily. It is in part an inheritance, and like all other legacies, it carries the responsibility of exploiting it for private pleasure as well as for the enrichment of the world and of one's life. This responsibility is the reason for the existence of Language Departments in the schools. Here at William Penn the teaching of people foreign to Latin, French, German and Spanish has changed in style, for much the same purpose as aircraft has varied in design to accommodate actual needs. The instructors are growing away from the my tired grandmother sees one pen in the garden school of thought. THERE is still rigorous attention to grammar patterns and to the necessities of pronuncia- tion, but there is also an enthusiastic effort to communicate the setting in which the languages are used. A Latin scholar will be a keener citizen or soldier for knowing something of the ways of the Romans in public assembly and in warfare, An apprentice in French or German will find familiar things in Paris or Berlin. The students of Spanish will sing a lilting bolero as readily as they will solve radical changing verbs. It's all quite free. Back Row: Mr, Fink, Miss Bush, Miss Jacoby, Miss McDonald, Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Seaks, Mr. Glatfelter. Seated on Steps: Mrs. McCulloch, Miss Hallock. 32

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DEPARTMENT Boys of the electrical shop assembling and testing radio equipment taken from Wildcat fighter acquired from Navy. 31 Machine shop boys dismantling Wildcat lighter presented to Wm. Penn by the Navy. The use oi the bench centers are explained by Mr. Dowell in the Mechanics class held in the Atreus Warmer Building.

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DEPARTMENT It may be Spanish, but it's Greek to me. 33 Mrs. Portefs students learn the South American way.