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

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Student Librarians Members of the Library Club contribute their services dur- ing study periods and after school hours to the patrons of the school library. Sister Cu- nisse, librarian, is moderator of the organization. fo r Eve ry Ageless Books Age was the theme of Catho- lic Book '-Neek that members of the club worked out. Spon- sorship of a Book Fair by the club and staff highlighted this year's celebration of Book Week. .519 ,ii P si se.. . ni L 5.6 N' Nola Noel, extreme left, president of the Library Club, directs the activities of these senior members. Nancy Eeg is seated at the typewriter. Others are Phyllis Redig, Kathleen Semke, and Geraldine Calkins. Underclassmcn also serve on the library staff. Seated are Colette Grabinski, Elizabeth Buchner, Patricia Ferris, Kathryn Ferries, Rita Poehling, and Maxine Hansen. Standing are Sandra Reget, Irene Rutz, Gladys Fries, Joanne Schaller, Phyllis Nesseth, Mary Ferris, Roberta Kenney, Ann Theisen, and Joanne Lucey. Fifty-two

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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

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Today's Debaters - - Tomorrow's Leaders Debate is the art of express- ing well what is well worth expressing. lt trains the stu- dent in concise reasoning habits, develops fluent speak- ers, and builds self-confidence. Senior debaters were under the direction of Sister Mary Michael. Junior-sophomore debaters attended and placed in tourna- ments in La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Milwaukee. Sister Theo- data, speech instructor, was coach for this intermediate group. Wisconsin's unpredictable weather was always a hazard but Father Kun- dinger's faithful Packard never failed to get the senior debaters to tourna- ments. ln the upper photo are Jane Pavela, Gerald Downey, John Lyons, and John Bedessem. In the picture at the right an intermediate debate class is shown in action. Eugene Bakalars is address- ing his fellow-debaters, Anthony Sol- berg, Roy Pearse, Howard Erickson, seated, David Murphy, Carol Theisen, Barry Johnson, and William McKillip, standing. -if-K ln the picture above an intermediate debate class is shown in action. Eugene Bakalars is addressing his fellow-debaters, Anthony Solberg, Roy Pearse, Howard Erickson, seated, David Murphy, Carol Theisen, Barry Johnson, and William McKillip, standing. Fifty-three