Jesuit High School - Speculum Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT, BUT . . . explains Bob Powell to his counselor, Fr. David Olivier, S.J., as tries to relate a strange experience ,f,,.... SOPHONIORES LISTEN to Fr. Paul, S.J. while on retreat at Loyala. Counseling Builds Insight, Religion Ponders Human Issues The religion department, reorganized by Fr. Michael Merriman, S.J. gives students doctrinal, scriptural, liturgical, moral basis for human actions. Freshmen study the Biblical history of the Church, and are exposed to consequences of the Catholic faith. Sophomores discuss the morality of human actions, and led by Dave Machin and Chris Smith, they sponsored several folk masses with guitar, drums, and tambourine. As a junior, a student takes a closer, more personal look at his own prob- lems of faith and morality. The senior religion course, contemporary problems, deals with the issues of today, and teaches students how to apply the principles they have learned in class. The religion department is supplemented by the counseling department. Each student may choose his counselor from the faculty and talk to him at any time. This way everyone has his own personal look at himself and his faith in the context of the modern world. BRYAN CULLIVAN delivers his report on modern atheism to his contemp class. 38 - -4

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x'- .Km lx .-. - ' 5 : Q, 9 . .i 4-I4 if r 4-gt '. a. ,., fi .eff , un: . viii'-1 Ilflirjr li. uage lab. It's Not What You 'TT U TOM KEMPER, Steve Connolly, and Floch Craford listen to tapes. Say, but How You Say It To understand another culture, a community of people out- side of our own experience, is the goal of the Jesuit foreign language department. Students learn through languages the dis- cipline of ordered thought and the diversity of expression. Latin has been a stolid member of the foreign language depart- ment at Jesuit High. Even its advocates term the course a de- manding exercise in logic. The first two years of Latin are de- voted lto mechanics. Rather than take Cicerols speeches in their junior year, juniors this year joined fourth year Latin scholars in appraising Vergil's Aenid. Knowledge of basic lan- guage formations gained from Latin studies may readily be applied to either of Jesuit High's modern languages, French or Spanish. The French department, headed by Fr. Denis Dennehy, lays claim to about 130 uetudiantsl' studying both the French language and culture. Within these two areas are two types of learning: reading skills and pronunciation. French classes share a language lab of 27 booths which were built last summer with the Spanish classes. Jesuit's two-year Spanish program brings the culture of Span- ish-speaking peoples, particularly those of the Latin American countries, to approximately 100 students. Mr. Vincent Teresi, the sole Spanish instructor, was assisted for a short period in February by Carlos Munoz, a student teacher from Costa Rica. Costa Rican exchange student Franco Donato gave students an opportunity to implement their Spanish studies. Jesuit High hopes to give students a working knowledge of at least one foreign language as part of a liberal education. r 5 f . i l 1 1 , t J JA 5 FR. DENIS DENNEHY quizzes junior Pat O'Neill on daily French reading in second year course.

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ROM THEIR HEAP of research material, juniors Pete Madden and Shannon Coupens accumulate matter on the Civil War for their history reports. XL -fs 1. ...ala-1 SEMINAR includes S. Veazie, M. McMenamin, D. Sheets, D. Ziglinski. History Views ldeos, Volues That Moved Post and Present Because of emphasis placed on the reading of novels and biographies historical periods, and people begin to take on meaning which textbook outlines cannot provide, Fr. Jo- seph Delardin, S.J. stated about Jesuit's history courses. First year history familiarizes students with European peo- ples from antiquity through the Reformation, then sopho- more year from the seventeenth century revolutions to the present time. Juniors take American history. History seminar is available for selected seniors chosen on the basis of their academic performances and on their aptitude for independent research and study in history.