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Teachers Get A Rest Words Of Wisdom January 31, 1962

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In recent months, a number of G.M. teachers have received aid from a variety of local and national figures in the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Bouncing Betty Acosta enlightened M. Delaney's juniors on her famed pen-palship with the late James Thurber last month to wind up the class' study of Thurber.

In. her lecture, Mrs. Acosta explained how an innocent fan letter to Mr. Thurber started a chain of events and letters resulting in the revelations that Mr. Thurber once lived in Falls Church and that it was here that he lost the sight of his left eye when his brother shot him with a bow and arrow. In one of his letters, Mr. Thurber, who died only recently, revealed that while he lived here, he lived on the same street as Mrs. Acosta (Maple Ave.) After much sound and fury it was finally learned in which house Mr. Thurber lived.

As Mrs. Acosta read a great deal from her own. letters., one realized why Mr. Thurber carried on such a correspondence with her.

Back in December the Seniors were treated to an hour with Virginia's Tenth District representative, Joel Broyhill. Mr. Broyhill spoke on "the life of a congressman" (busy, he said) and answered questions from government-conscious Seniors.

Mr. McBlair's U.S. and World Affairs class culminated its onesemester study of the Soviet Union by listening to school board member Louis Olom talk about culture and propaganda in the Soviet Union. From his work with the United States Information Agency Mr. Olom was able to give a wealth of current information about the Soviet Union's. attempt to control the minds of men on both sides of the iron curtain. Examples of Soviet propaganda and its United States counterpart were examined by the class.

Two senior English-government sections listened recently to a double-period lecture by Dr. Aral Simpson of the U.S. Bureau of Standards on the interrelation of science and the humanities. Dr. Simpson gave the spellbound Seniors a short history of scientific theory and speculated on what the future holds for the scientist. He pointed out, a surprisingly close connection, it seemed to most seniors, between theology, literature, philosophy and science.