St Agnes High School - Spires Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Dunes! lfuuquistadnresl THE DUCES combined The TranslaTion oT Virgil wiTh many ouTside proiecTs This year. The sTory oT The AnnunciaTion was acTeol ouT wiTh The players speaking in LaTin The Gospel accounT nccording To SainT Luke. In an open Torum wiTh The Spanish Club, discussing SouTh America, The LaTin sTudenTs were vicTorious, proving ThaT The sTudy oT l.aTin is noT conTined To The aTTairs of The ancienTs. The club meeTings were en'ivoned by several new games adapTed Trom popular TavoriTes To TesT The players' knowledge oT l.aTin words or idenTiTies in The Aeneid. The sTudy oT The lliiad and The Odyssey was linked wiTh regular class work, and inTeresTing discussions were held on The similariTies be-Tween The modern world and ThaT oT Homer. Wakefield EvereTT, BeTTy Ann House, Mary RoTheram, l.oreTTa Kearney, and Alice Annand play Bingo a la LaTin. Grace Villareal shows her laTesT slrefch in Spanish cosTuming To her admiring fellow sTudenTs, Carmen Gandara, Jim Cragin, and William Granf. Helen Caire and Eva Valencia display Their arTisTic abiliTy To The Spanish Club. Eileen Sfoup shows Louise Carreon how a Spanish manTilla is worn. PAN-AMERICANISM has been The Theme oT The monThly meeTings oT The ConquisTadore:. Books, pamph- leTs, movies were secure'l in order To obTain a'l The inTormaTion possible abouT our neighbors in SouTh Amer- ica. l3requenT round Table discus- sions, open Torums and debaTes en- livened The sTudy oT The economic. social and religious liTe oT These peo- ple. ln Their small way, The Conquis- Tadores hope To play a parT in esTab- lishing a Pan-America Union. 47

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plu kers f + f THE CLASS OF I942 has been inferesfed in liierary aclivilies since ifs Freshman year. ln The ninfh grade lhese ambifious English sludenls published The Ourburslf' a proiecl sponsored by lhe enlire class. As Sophomores lhey organized The Blue WT Edifor Carmel Peruzzi scans 'rhe firsf copy of The Uplook. Cover drawn by Grace Villareal, sfaff ariisf. 46 Pencil Club, devored lo lhe developmenl of lhe lilerary ral- enls of ils members. This club was confinued in The Junior year and dislinguished ilself by 'rhe publicalion of Pencil Poinrsf' a sorr of school newspaper. Now, as Seniors, lhey have upheld lheir repulalion as crealive wrilers by producing The Uploolcf' a magazine conlaining shorf sfories, essays, and verse. The edilor, Carmel Peruzzi, assisfed by an able slaff of wrilers and arlisrs, designed and ediled This final collec+ion from The pens of lhe Class of l942. Carmel Peruzzi, Mariorie Larkin, Verna Puiynlcowslxi, Mary Lesfer, Barbara Towers, and Grace Vi.lareal ai worl: on The Uploolr.

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i a T .e ,Q yi i za Q 'ix fi 9 i 1 s i i l Michael Quinn, Chairman: Mary Teresa Egerer, Winner of Preliminary Coniesig Barbara Towers. Mary Lesfer, Mary Jane Roach, and Francis Redmond, Confeslanls. Uraturical l3UI1lESl WITH Mobilizalion for Social Reconslruclionu as a general rheme, parficipanrs in +he annual apologeiics coniesl sponsored by The Young Men's lnsfiruie, under ihe direclion of rhe Jesuil Faihers, prepared oralions on ihe subiecrs of Cafholic reconsirucrion in lhe home, ihe parish, ihe siaie, and 'rhe labor group. Mary Teresa Egerer and Francis Redmond represenred Saini Agnes' in rhe semi-finals al Loyola High School. Alfhough neifher conresiani won placemenr in ihe finals held ai Immaculaie l-learf College, 'their work was crediiable and ihe experience valuable. 48 Mary Teresa Egerer and Mary Lesler, winners of lirsf ancl second place in lhe preliminary conlesl.