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LANGUAGE
Peaceful coexistence with one's fellow man depends upon ability to communicate in an understood tongue. Realizing the importance of learning foreign languages, the Wardlaw curriculum includes at least one mandatory language course.
Students are first introduced to a language other than English in the eighth grade, where a first-year course in Latin is offered. Students are taught not only to under­ stand Latin, but to apply the roots to English. Latin I covers the fundamentals of the language, while Latin II includes translation of Caesar. Mr. Joseph Nolan instructs both Latin classes.
Once in high school, a student may choose between French or Spanish. In either course, the early years are spent learning pronunciation and grammar, while the later years introduce literature and writing in the language. Mr. Clark Whelton teaches French. The Spanish instructors
are Mr. Robert Vietor and Mr. Lewis Timberlake.
In addition to the usual language classes, clubs have been formed in the past to teach different languages.
A German Club and a Russian Club both seem to exem­ plify the efforts of the Wardlaw language department to expand.
HISTORY
Accurate explanation of the present and future requires a knowledge of the past. For this reason, the Wardlaw history department tries not only to introduce the deeds and dates of the past, but also to encourage an application of these facts to modern situations.
Students are introduced to the fundamentals of history in early grades of the lower school. In addition to Ameri­ can and world history, geography is integrated into the history program as high as the seventh grade. Students are prepared throughout lower and middle school for the more advanced high school courses. Teachers in these grades are Mr. Max Munzel and Mr. Robert Paoli.
The high school history department continued this year a four-year comprehensive program which was initiated last year. Freshmen studied ancient history to the fall of Rome with sophomores following the course of medieval history to about 1600. Modern history carried juniors to the close of the eighteenth century and seniors into the twentieth century. Mr. Gale Hoffman heads the his­
tory department. He is assisted in the high school by Mr. Robert Johnson.
Although the history department has improved tremen­ dously in past years, it promises to expand even further; for history, like time, marches on.
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