York College of Pennsylvania - Horizon Tower Yearbook (York, PA)

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FRENCH • SPANISH • GERMAN Hilde Jaeckel University of Geneva, Switzerland University of Breslau, Germany, Ph.D. Head of Modern Language Department A. Reginald Fink Pennsylvania State College, A.I Spanish The purpose of the foreign language department, v hich includes French, German, Spanish, Latin and Greek, is not only to give the students a knowledge of the lan- guage, but of the peoples and their cultural background as well. This goal Is accom- plished through supplementary reading and movies in the respective languages. There are other worlds to explore through the medium of the literature of these countries. Many of the artistic values of the literature are lost in translation. In the world as it Is now, language barriers must be erased. In teaching the students reading and conversation, the language department hopes to increase their under- standing of the peoples of these countries. 17

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LANGUAGES SPEECH • ENGLISH • LATIN • GREEK J. Russell Dunlap Pennsylvania State College, A.B. Southern Baptist Theological Senninary, Th.M. English, Bible eM fM Helen McNl+t Wilson College, A.B. Pennsylvania State College, M.A. English W. Burg Anstine Dickinson College, A.B. Dickinson Law School, LL.D. Speech Mrs. Howard Coleman ImhofF Columbia University, B.S. Post Graduate — Columbia School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Hope School of Art Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art Short Story Writing Reading, speaking, listening and writing are the four communication skills on which the English depart- ment has concentrated its efforts this year. The Freshman composition course is based on these methods of communication. In correlation with Eng- lish 101, a laboratory, in which theme-writing and oral communication are stressed, was instituted during the last semester. All laboratory students were required to take A. C. E. placement tests as a preliminary phase of their lab course. In the field of experiment, the Harvard Reading Films were made available to all York Junior Col- lege students, the purpose being to help each student improve his reading rate and his compre- hension. Plans are being made for more extensive use of the films next year. Our English students leave Y. J. C. with an ade- quate foundation in English due to the untiring efforts of the department ' s competent and hard- working professors.

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MATHEMATICS CALCULUS • GEOMETRY • ALGEBRA Hallett B. Hammatt University of California, A. Harvard University, M.A. Head of Mathematics Department Thomas L. McFadden Juniata College, A.B. Mathematics The York Junior College Mathematics department offers to first- and second-year students a variety of courses designed to meet the needs of those who wish to terminate their mathematical education, as well as the students who will transfer to other colleges and continue mathematics. Under the lead- ership of h allatt B. Hammatt, head of the depart- ment, and Thomas McFadden, the young Einsteins proceed through a series of studies integrated to meet the Mathematical requirements of any institu- tion they might choose after leaving the junior college. Mathematics 101-102 are, respectively, college algebra and trigonometry. These courses are for liberal arts students. Mathematics 103-104 are offered for engineering students and science majors. The first covers both college algebra and trigonometry In one semester, while the second semester course, 104, Includes an Introduction to analytical geometry and integral calculus. Mathematics 201-202 continues and completes the analytical geometry and calculus begun In the 104 course. Mathematics 105-106 was established this year for majors In economics and accounting. It features business theory, banking practices, Interest and de- preciation and similar subjects of Importance to aspiring Rockefellers.