Aquinas High School - Trumpet Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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W' use Future Homemakms Future Homemakers of America, F.H.A., Aquinas Chapter, was organized October 24, l95O, As a girls' organization its ac- tivities are intended to stimulate greater interest in classwork in order to learn how to live better today so that families may be better tomorrow. Sister Maristelle and Sis- terAlthea are moderators. F.H.A. members consider the merits of good grooming. Seat- ed are Lucille Yehle, Jeanne Corbett, and Shirley Kubiak. Behind them are Ruth Kend- hammer, Janet Marson, and Fay Leinfelder. Student CouncH The ACOSA, Aquinas Council of Student Af- fairs, has completed its I2 28 Mui, fourth year. This student group assumes the obli- gation of promoting the schooI's social and reli- gious events and acts as an official sounding- board of student opinion. Sister Zelma is moderator. ACOSA president, Charles Cunningham, second from left, is aided in his planning of the council's activities by James Temp, vice-president, Jane Pavela, treasurer, and Mary Larkin, secretary. Ne l Fifty

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Linguists Stud Other Lands Mary Urban, Patricia Engh, and Mary Mezera, members of the , Spanish Club, Circulo Espanol, study r.,LL before their monthly meeting. German Club officers celebrate Christmas according to German tradi- tions. Ardell Hampton, secretary, Charles Runningen, vice-president, d David Vollmar, president, are an preparing the bulletin board. ke 1. ' Br bl lv Clllgflvneachr Student interest in modern languages has been increased through German and Spanish Clubs. Both of these organizations are under the direction of Sister Laurinda. These clubs exist in order to achieve better acquaintanceship with the language, life, and customs of the peoples of the countries whose language is studied. They create greater interest in the study of the respective languages and promote proficiency in their use through practice in oral expressions. Spanish Club officers are Mary Larkin, president, Mary Mach, vice-president, Donna Korpal, secretary, and Marlene Merfeld, treasurer. Officers of the German Club, Lorelei Verein, are David Vollmar, president, Charles ' ' H m ton, secretary, and Mary Schachinger, treasurer. Runningen, vice-president, Ardell a p Forty-nine

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Searchers of the Natural World Philip Yunker, Patricia Poellinger, Gregory Dow- ney, and James Zoerb assist Carola Abraham in ci chemistry experiment. Robert Hafner, Glenn Twite, and Kent Lawr- ence compare clockwise and counter-clockwise moments in an experi- ment in the physics lab- Orotory. Courses in the scientific field include general science, biology, chemistry, and physics. For those students to whom the probing of the secrets of nature offers a pleasant challenge is added the additional incentive which the Junior Academy of Science affords. A local unit of this national society has been established at Aquinas. This year Audrey Hardiman presided at the local and at the state meeting in Milwaukee, Wis- consin. Each year its members, true to the definition that science is an orderly arrange- ment of knowledge gleaned, present scientific projects as reports. These are the products of their own initiative and are entered in state competition. Fifty-one