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Language Department Adds Strength, Depth
Starting this year with three new teachers, the Language Department sought to find new directions and purposes in the study of foreign languages.
The department brought Bennett Carr to teach all levels of French. Mr. Carr feels that an over-all comprehension of French takes preference over the conventional methods of merely learning the grammatical aspects. Mrs. Fred Knipp, also newly acquired, taught Spanish I and II. Sharing her time with VES and Seven Hills Academy for Girls, Mrs. Knipp stressed the basics needed by beginning Spanish students for a solid understanding of the language. Leroy Atkins, newly graduated from William and Mary
College, came to teach all German classes.
Mr. William Wyatt, in addition to serving as headmaster for the year, taught the course in Latin IV, and Maxwell Meador, the department chairman, taught the more fundamenta,l courses in Latin. While teaching courses of history, Mr. Ricardo Palomares, whose native language is Spanish, also took time to bring life to courses in Spanish III and IV.
French II class utilizes the renovated language lab: first row, Tay Louden, Gary Murray; second row, Blair Thurman, Bill Pruett,
Wooty Peebles solemnly crams for French class. In background, Coleman Alderson.
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