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

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It ’s Pleasant . . . It’s Practical MRS. LYDIA MARSHALL Typing and Notehand If there is one elective chosen by the vast majority of Seniors, it is the Typing and Notehand course given by MRS. MARSHALL. Whether we want to prepare for a career in the business world, or be able to take notes quickly and type our term papers and other assignments in College, both of these courses have practical value — and they’re enjoyable too. In November MRS. MARSHALL requested The Berkeley School to send someone to visit our classes and to speak to us on the advantages of a business career. MISS SCOTT, pic- tured below, accepted the invitation, and represented the school. As we go to press, MRS. MARSHALL is formulating plans for a field trip to an Industrial Plant and or to a Business School for the next semester. Typing Certificates and Awards are given by the Catholic Bus iness Education Association to students typing up to sixty words a minute, a goal which the majority of MRS. MAR- SHALL’S students achieve. . . . It’s Relaxing . . . In the picture at the right MRS. MARSHALL glances over ELLEN s shoulder at the page in her typewriter. CLARE is in the foreground. MISS SCOTT Representative of The Berkeley School 32

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0 Wonderful World Of Books . . . Let Me Share Your Wealth With Others . . . Just as there is a time to weep and a time to laugh, so there is a time to be serious and a time to relax. In the picture at the left, SISTER MARY EUCHARIA is operating the Filmstripand-Record- Player machine at a Fall Faculty Meeting. Concentra- tion was necessary to keep the correct synchroniza- tion of frames and narration, and she succeeded perfectly. Below there is a second picture in which Sister is more relaxed and this is a more normal and natu- ral picture. SISTER EUCHARIA has replaced SISTER MARY JOSITA who was assigned to the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the fall. Most of her courses in Library Science have been taken at Catholic Uni- versity in Washington, D.C., and she comes to the Academy with the technical knowledge required and also with a love of books and a kind of rever ence for the riches enclosed between their stiff or flexible covers. The new carrels in the Library purchased with funds contributed by the Fathers and Friends of the Mount have been put to good use. SISTER MARY EUCHARIA Librarian Early in December SISTER EUCHARIA obtained cartons of new books of various categories — which will be on the shelves as soon as they have been accessioned and catalogued. One of the innovations that has appealed to Seniors in particular has been the frequency of Free Fine Days — or should we call them Fine Free Days? We’ve had three so far!

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Be A David! . . . . . . the slogan of the President’s Physical Fitness Program, has been the keynote of the Physical Education Classes this year. New equipment in the gym, especially PREMI the new horse, the ping pong tables and the bows and arrows for archery enthusiasts, have been booster shots for the Gym classes, and with MRS. MARION HESSION (pictured at the left with DOTH and JUDE) again as our Instructor, classes were more enjoyable and relaxing than ever. It was MRS. HESSION who designed the white and navy pinafores worn by the Faculty in the FACULTY-STUDENT Basketball Game. There will be further notes on Athletics in the School Life section of our book. j We lost a delightfully pleasant nurse when MRS. SHEPHARD left us in the spring a few months before the birth of her baby girl, but MRS. SHIRLEY McCORMACK who replaced her is equally charming. MRS. McCORMACK received her nurse’s training in St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, where she specialized in pediatrics. For a time she was a member of the Staff of Babies' Hospital, a division of the Co- lumbia Presbyterian Hospital and Medical Cen- ter in New York. She is the mother of two daughters — Barbara 14 and Janey 11. She describes her technique here at the Mount as ‘‘a little mothering, a little humor, — and a lot of love and common sense!” Whether we’ve come under her care as patients or have just passed her now and then in the hall or on the stairs, we feel better and the sun seems brighter be- cause of our contact with MRS. McCORMACK. P.S. In the Student-Faculty Game, MRS. Me CORMACK led the Cheerleaders ! ! !