The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 2

Page 2 THE EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER Wednesday, October 'Latin Almost a Way of Life, 1 Say Area Classicists By John Palen Of the Intelligencer When Gertrude Drake and Dorothy Rainey meet to talk about Latin, the conversation imay range Xar afield of conjugations and declensions. Precision and the inner fire, the excellence of one's personal life, the quality education are more likely to be the topics. Miss Rainey, a Marine resident who has taught Latin at Civic Memorial High School in Bcthalto for 16 years, currently is serving a term as president of the Illinois Classical Conference. Mrs. Drake, Edwardsville, nn author of Latin readers a former head of the department at New Trier High School, is public relations director of the conference.

She is the wife of Louis Drake, chairman of the economics department at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. In teaching techniques, Miss Rainey describes herself as a "traditionalist," while s. Drake has worked in national curriculum revision programs. Both agree, however, that "Latin is than just a language. It's almost a way of life." "It has been so much a part of my life," Miss Ramcy says, when asked what Lntin has done personally for her.

"What hasn't it done? "It teaches precision a thoroughness. Oflen it is one of the first subjects one studies in which something near the right answer just won't do. It has to be right." Latin is the language of Mie epic poet, Virgil, whose book was once so popular in Europe th women opened it at random for a foircast of events; and of whose story of Pgymalion had a successful rerun recently as "My Fair La- The precision of the language has led to its continued use in law and medicine. Once the leading tongue of Europe, it continues as the official language of the Roman Catholic Church The study of Latin is still a basic requirement i a universities and was so in the United States many vears Possibly 60 per cent of the words in this article are derived from Latin. For example: possibly, sixty, per cent, words, article, derived and Latin Yet the study of Latin has declined in the Twentieth Century, and Mrs.

Drake and Miss Rainey feel education may be losing something of richness and perspective as a result, Mrs, Drake quotes Seneca, the Roman philosopher and statesman: "A mathematician can teach me how to measure my estate, But how can he teach me how much of an estate it is good for a man to have?" Perhaps a measure of perspective gained through their study of the language, however, Is the respect of the two teachers for other disciplines such as mathematics and modem languages. Mrs, Drake's daughter is a mathematics major, her husband an economist, and she readily admits the value of that, field of study. Federal funds for language institutes go almost entirely to modern languages, rather than classics. Yet the two teachers feel that modern languages and Latin should not be in conflict. "They should work in tandem," Mrs.

Drake says. "The ideal approach would be to start teaching a modern language in the first grade, In the seventh grade they should let us have the students for four years of Latin. Then the modern language could be picked up again," Miss Rainey, who has 75 Latin students at Civic Memorial this year, believes the interest in Latin in the area is "exceedingly good," Bethalto, Edwardsville, Alton, Wood River, Collinsville and Belleville are among the school systems with strong Latin departments, she observes. Miss Rainey began her study of Latin in high school in Litchfield, "1 had a wonderful teacher," she recalls. "I think I decided to teach Latin on the second day of the class." She did undergraduate work at Shurtleff College, now part of the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University.

She did graduate work at the University of Iowa. Her first year classes are introduced to the sound of the language and its basic principles. Students primarily read "made" Latin. Second-year students read Livy and Caesar, and third- year students, Cicero. By the fourth year, Miss Rainey says, students are able to appreciate Virgil.

Cfther approaches to teaching the language, now being developed, include audio-visual aides; structural teaching, in which the students answer Latin questions 'in Latin and programmed learning. Mrs. Drake's readers, like others developed by other teachers, approach the student early with selections chosen to appeal to the young. The epigrams of Martial, a satirist, and the advice of Ovid have been particularly popular her students, she says. "Don't be late for dates," Ovid admonishes.

"If your car breaks down, don't jump out and try to fix it. Walk if you have to, but don't be late." The teachers cite other benefits of the language, including a better understanding of English words and a background for learning modern languages. They both urge students to take all four years of Latin. "It would be horrible," Mrs. Drake says, "to go through the agony of grammar and vocabu- terly and then quit before you had read the great poets who can speak to your heart," icor Photo Miss Rainey, left, and Mrs.

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NEWS WORLD REPORT,) LIFE, NATIONAL EDITION WALL STREET JOURNAL VISITORS IN THE AREA WORDEN--Mr. and Verschaere of Kmimclaw, are visiting here with Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ostrowsky and at Livingston with Mrs. Haltie Hninaut.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loemker and children fa'Oim Hazelwood, Mo were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolf, Mr.

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Olive with Mr. and Mrs. Waller Howard. Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Kinni- Itin and son recently visited his mother and sister, Mrs.

Cleda Kinnikin and Mrs. Dorothy Blu me. Ronald Wolf of Chicago has returned home after week's vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolf.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard F. Sclieibal visited his mother, Christine Schcibal, at 1'roy recently. No School Area Teachers' Institute Friday A four-county teachers' institute is scheduled Friday, with workshops and conferences planned in Edwardsville, Highland, Bothalto and other cities, The institute is sponsored by superintendents of schools in Madison, Bond, "Clinton and St.

Clair counties. School will be dismissed for the day. All sessions except that for the Illinois Council, of Teachers of Mathematics will, begin at 9 a.m. The mathematics session will start at 8:15 a.m. Several area residents and teachers will direct sessions or participate in programs.

They include: William Henry, Highland, director of the intermediate session; Raymond Grinter, Edwardsville, director oi the art workshop; R. N. Pcndergrass of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, director of the mathematics workshops; Ruth Richardson, Robert An- droc, Gordon C. Bliss, Loran Dean Marlow, Marion L. Kum- Icr, David Rands, Warren Joseph, Alfred Pellegrino, Raymond Spahn, James Callaman, Nancy Allvalcr and Roy Steinbrook, all of SIU, Edwardsville; Ruth Brubaker, Edwardsville; C.

A. Ilenmng, superintendent of the Triad District; Gertrude Edwardsville; Dorothy Rninej', Civic Memorial High School, Bcthalto, and Don White ot Highland. Granite City Steel Reports Finances With the demand for flat rolled steel products well maintained in the third quarter i year, the Granite City Steel Co. had net sales for the months ended Sept. 30 of $42,030,000 and net income of $2,611,000, or 60 cents per share of common stock, compared with third quarter 1965 sales of and net income of $2,213,000, or 51 cents per common share, Nicholas P.

Veeder, chairman of the board a president, announced in interim report to stockholders. The improvement in net income enabled the St. Louis area steel producer to earn 6 2 per cent on sales in the third quarter this year versus 5.2 per cent in the third quarter of 1965. "The seasonal tapering off in. steel industry activity winch usually appears in the fourth quarter can be expected this year," Veeder said.

"However, the demand for steel remains high and above the 1965 level in the same period." Granite City Slecl'i third quarter results bring sales for the nine months ended Sept. 30 to $122,298,000 and net income to $7,194,000, or $1.65 per common share, compared with sales of $131,962,000 and net income of $8,230,000, or $1.89 per share, in the same period in 1965. While most steel-using industries have operated at Mgh levels so far in 1966, production and shipments of steel from the mills lagged In the first quarter as manufacturers took in less steel than they were using to work down the large inventories accumulated in 1965. AND PROUD OF IT LOUISVILLE (AP) An ancient ialopy, often parked in the downtown area, has these words painted on the trunk lid: "Out of Date but Out of Debt," The frost may be on the pumpkin, as the poet observed, but few Americans plan their vacations to see it. EDWARDSVILLE I ALTON WILDEYffn GRAND STARTS FRIDAY FOR ONE WEEK Open Friday at 4:45 Continuous Sat.

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