Academy of Mount Saint Vincent - Chastellux Yearbook (Tuxedo Park, NY)

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CCD Functions As A Separate Unit Unii! this year the CONFRATERNITY of CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, the CCD . functioned as part of the Sodality. This year, when the Sodality was replaced by the YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS, it was decided to keep the C C D as a separate group. SISTER GERTRUDE MIRIAM was appointed its Moderator. SIS- TER BERNARD, of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, whose principal work is the giv- ing of religious instruction, had come to us once a week last year to train our Student Catechists. Her work was so important and successful that she was asked to continue the program this year. In the picture at the right. SISTER BERNARD, left, and SIS- TER GERTRUDE, right, discuss new approaches to be used in the light of Vatican . Every Wednesday morning SISTER BERNARD takes ALL the Juniors for a course in Methods of Teaching Religion. This is an especially interested portioil of her group. They are: S. CULLIGAN, D. DUVALL. C. EVANS. A. INGANAMORT. C. CHISHOLM, J. F1TZGIBBON. B BRADY and L. RUSSOTTI CATHY JONES (left) is the only Senior this year who has chosen C C D as a principal ex- tracurricular activity. In the picture at the right. DENISE O’KEEFE, a Junior, works at the blackboard with two of her pupils. Several other Juniors devote Wednesday afternoons to this work, and some help out in their home parishes too. Ill

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Two New Courses Challenge Interested Students One is the Course in AFRO-ASIAN CULTURE which SISTER MARY ANDREA is offering to the Seniors for the first time this year. SISTER ANDREA had received a Federal Grant to specialize in this field at Georgetown last summer, and is therefore well quali- fied to present the course. The group discussions have given even rather timid students courage to express their opinions, and under Sister's guidance and through their own research on assigned topics all have gained new insights into the problems of these continents. In the picture at the right. K MIN- AHAN is explaining the character- istics of certain foods from India. For this session of the class she had pre- pared a kind of Indian “pancake” which all tasted. For another session D. CHUDY appeared in Oriental Dress. This paved the way for the ex- position of interesting views on the subject of conventional and tradition- al dress. SISTER MARY ANDREA delights her classes, whether they are Seniors or Freshmen, by her clear explanations and her ability to find a grain of truth in their answers. In the picture below arc K. W1NGET and A. EDWARDS, two more members of the AFRO-ASIAN CULTURE course. They are earnestly attentive to the points being discussed. The second course introduced this year is the COURSE in RUSSIAN given by MISS ANN MURPHY, who also teaches French. As soon as news of the new course was circulated. A. EDWARDS (Senior). B. BLAIR and D. McCABE (Juniors) and A. BUDIN and C. MURA (Sophomores) immediately signed up. All of these students arc HONOR STUDENTS and will therefore not find the language TOO difficult. 110

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Candystripers Bring Joy To Tuxedo Park Hospital YCS... YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS . . . has replaced the Sodality at the Mount this year. One of the activities of the group has been working as “CANDYSTRIPERS” at the Tuxedo Park Hospital. Several Seniors and Juniors spend an afternoon each week at the Hospital, but the problem of transporta- tion for both boarders and dayhops shortens their time there, and is a real handicap. PAM NIXON, one of work, or any other form of hospital work is her choice or NOT her choice when a decision about a career and preparation for it must be made. Some of our dayhops. unable to arrange to be Candy- stripers at T P H. work in hospitals near home on weekends. our Sophomores, lives in the Park, and divides her spare time between home and hospital. The pictures on this page show just a few of her activities . . . read- ing to a tiny patient . . . letting a baby feel the warmth of her love . . . giving a cold drink to some- one who is obviously grateful for the service. Another one of the services which older patients who are convalescing appreciate very much is the “BOOK- MOBILE”. PAM is only too happy to provide any pa- tient who wishes them with books, magazines and newspapers. One of the obvious dividends for PAM and our other Candystripers. aside from the happiness there is in a life of service to others, is the opportunity to see all phases of hospital work the pleasant and the unpleas- ant, and as a result to decide that nursing, laboratory 112