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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That does not seem to bother School Director Peter Marin, 32, who has a B.A. in English from Swarthmore and an M.A. in English from Columbia but was fired from Los Angeles State College because of his "eccentric" teaching ways. A quondam poet who once played poker for a living in Manhattan, he contends that "it doesn't matter what goes on at this school as long as the kids are learning...
Simonsen had quite a lot more than imagination going for him. He composed his lessons out of a wealth of experience. After emigrating to the U.S. at 15, he taught himself English by laboriously translating an 800-page Danish novel with the aid of dictionaries and a thesaurus. Later, while studying civil engineering at New York University, he began sailing for recreation, and set out to teach himself seaman ship. During World War II, he was tapped to teach navigation for the Army's Transportation Corps in the U.S. and Australia. After the war, Simonsen sailed as a captain...
Satisfied Graduates. With the captain busily grading lessons and his English-born wife June handling advertising, the Coast Navigation School, headquartered in a modest suite of offices in Santa Barbara, is working overtime to keep up with a current enrollment of 1,100; and it gets 500 new inquiries a month from as far off as Egypt and Thailand, to say nothing of G.I.s in Viet...
More typical-and more demanding -is the once-a-week film class at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, N.J. Taught by English Teacher Rodney Sheratsky and Documentary Film Maker Eric Camiel, the course includes esthetic theory, film history, and exercises in cinematography, cutting and editing. Students, most of whom borrow their parents' 8-mm. equipment, are required to make one filmlet a week, which is subjected by Camiel to scathing professional criticism. He can be high in his praise for efforts that show both imagination and care-and many do. One of his students this year...
...followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell Wright. It is salutary to note that the first English translation of Proust's Swanris Way did not make the scene...