RECEIVING CHECK FOR TEACHING LABORATORY. Shown left to right, A. B. Dore, Jr., President of Notre Dame Board of Directors, Mrs. Edmund Reggie, Father Robert Sibille, Principal of Notre Dame, Judge Edmund Reggie and Sister Monica Landry, O'Carm., French teacher.

FIRST FOR ACADIA PARISH

Teaching Laboratory Donated To

Notre Dame By Judge And Mrs. Reggie

Judge and Mrs,. Edmund M. Reggie have donated a complete electronic teaching laboratory to Notre Dame High School, it was announced yesterday by Father Robert Sibille, School Administrator.

Making the first such laboratory in Acadia Parish schools and being one of the most modern and up to date electronic teaching facilities in this state, the donation affords the newly consolidated parish Catholic schoolthe opportunity of using the most advanced methods of teaching many subjects, particularly foreign languages.

"We are excited over this new dimension added to our teaching Program at Notre Dame," Father Sibille said, "and we are deeply moved and appreciative for this costly and highly desirable educational gift by Judge and Mrs.

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Judge Reggie, in discussingthe motivation which led to the donation said that "We are greatly impressed by the high academic achievement of Notre Dame, and Doris and I feel that this facility will assist the school and the students of our area to become more proficient in teaching and learning foreign languages, particularly French. It is our hope that school and students alike will enjoy and utilize the lab to the fullest measure."

In addition to the tape and recording channels of transmission available to the teacher, an added dimension of Projected film, electronically synchronized with-, the transmission tapes, will afford sight and image association with the spoken lesson drills."We do not know of any language lab in the area that is so highly deve

vantage of transmitting and recording their own programs, granting them the ability to specialize in particular work not given to the remainder of the class.

Combining all the features required in conducting classes electronically, students may be monitored and recorded individually. The instructor may conduct a two-way conversation with any selected student or students, record the conversation, record student response, link selected students for group discussion, talk to the entire class at one time, and supplement recorded programs with personal instruction over any four different channels.

An important phase of the lab allows the teacher to teach a class at four (4) different levels at the same time, grouping each set of