Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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Miss U. I. Stack, Librarian The foundation of a library should be adequate to the needs of every pupil at the present time. It is an absolute necessity to those who keep fully abreast of literary work. For this reason there is joint co-operation between the school and town libraries in order more fully to complement the material for the students. A group of girls, constantly busy in study halls and after school getting ex- perience in library routine, is the Librarian Club, under supervision of Miss Stack, who is in charge of the Library. This club includes Theodora Remington, Ioan Kline, Ianice Trupp, Nancy Dunkelberger, Ioan Atkinson, Ioyce Smith, Iudy Cassel, Ann Iensen, Ann Fergusen, Nancy Levengood, Amy Lowett, Mary Harkness, Molly Sohns, Marie Reich, and Ellen Iepsen. gnggoh gonfrigufed fo gixlareadion A'To teach English in a community like ours is to be dealing every day with the main instrument of civilized living. It is as a medium of expression that English is of supreme importance. The ability to put the best words in the best order, with tongue or pen, is man's greatest in- vention and the most powerful force of the modern world. It is as literature that English is most fascinating. By means of the printed page to be able to share the happiest, best, and wisest moments of the happiest, best, and 14

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Town L1'brary l children at their daily tasks. On one is portrayed the art of 1 very molding of the clay to the painting. Another shows the i still other scenes picture the making of rifies, shingles, or put wagon. The small boy takes his part as a helper, the motl' lookers. All these figures have expressions which appear alm tion is to be found in their faces. The men show alarm, woi from the toil of hard work, while the women and children e These murals also contain some historic value, for they show some of the old countryside around Pennsylvania. In this Laboratory of Knowledge, the books on the shc subjects, which appeal to all grades, spreading education and taste for knowledge. During the day and after school, the st periodical files, magazines for supplementary work, text boo ing or enjoyment, encyclopedias, and reference books for histr is a specific classification of reading material which enables the information necessary for his work throughout high scho college. The library is the core of the school, for every course, n lish, and social studies departments, relies upon it for a supp unite to form the symbol of higher learning. 13 inaking pottery, from the men tanning hides, while ting together the covered 1er and daughter are on- ost human. Intense emo- ider, sadness, and fatigue Xpress joy and happiness. the first locomotive and l 'lves cover a multitude of the consequent growing udents have access to the ks for both general read- aries of every type. There a student to easily locate bl and in preparation for mostly the language, Eng- lement. Thus all subjects

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wisest of men-poets and prose-men, past and present--is a 1 and pleasure. Literature covers all reaches and ranges of life, touchi heavens above, the earth beneath, and the waters under th Carlyle: All that Mankind has done, gained or been, it is l tion in the pages of booksf' Thus literature consists of a wid types, each different from the others and offering separate p treatment. There is first the two-fold division into poetry and p worlds, comprehending respectively, narrative, lyric, and dr hand, and the novel, the short story, the formal and informal prose drama on the other. So utterly unlike are these that th e n e earth. In the words of Y C 1' to the same field of art. Yet all of them and many more ar in thousands of classrooms. Merely to read them intelligently O tal and emotional sympathy and a formidable background The writer creates, and, as best he can, the reader re-c own heart and life the beauty and intensity of his conception Thus, it can be said that literature is not an end in its towards an end. This goal is not constant, it changes with turity and is different for every individual. To attain it is rience. Someone complained to the Master, 'After many 21 iaily miracle of privilege g upon everything in the ing as in magic preserva- variety of types and sub- roblems of approach and ose, two separate literary matic poetry on the one ssay, the speech, and the y hardly seem to belong being taught every year ' requires generous men- f knowledge. ' feates after him from his J. lf but definitely a means rowing intellectual ma- satisfying expe- I do not fully under- if-L M-.A Ir. High English, Mrs. Iva Eyrich l 15