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

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Two Very Practical Sr. Mary Sylvia High up in SKYTOP you'll find the Typing Room where MRS. LYDIA MARSHALL taught Typing and Notehand. This year, for the first time. Juniors and Sophomores were allowed to take typing if it fitted into their schedule. Highest on the list of MRS. MARSHALL’S objectives again this year was the ability of her students to set up all papers in proper form, with faultless grammar and punctuation — and of course perfect spelling — goals for any top flight sec retary. In October MRS. MARSHALL brought her students to KATHARINE GIBBS Secretarial School, since some of our Seniors would be choosing a Business School instead of Col- lege. MRS. MARSHALL. MISS STARAPOLA and MISS MANN HAUPT formed a team of Moderators for the Future Teachers’ Club. Electives And The SEWING NOOK seemed to have a magnetic attraction for students from grade 9-12. It was here that SR. MARY SYLVIA taught fashion in dressmaking, knitting and crocheting. The new Modular Scheduling gave students more time to work on a particular phase of their current project, and often they came in during a free ‘mod’ to finish something they’d started. SISTER encouraged all to do the best they could and to enjoy doing it. After school a new Club met - FASHIONS to KNIT and CROCHET — and of course SISTER SYLVIA was its Mod erator. 28 Mrs. Lydia Marshall

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Sr. Maria Goretti Wealth In 3G’s — G-erman, G-lee And G-uitar Clubs In her teaching of BIOLOGY and CHEMIS- TRY, SR. MARIA GORETTI emphasized the importance of student observation, experi- mentation and experience — and also inde- pendent reading. Although the tangible goals of Regents credits appealed to some students. SISTER considered certain intan- gibles more important as life assets. Having spent seven years in Germany, SR. GORETTI was well qualified to teach Ger- man — an elective open to Juniors and Seniors. Grammar was taught, but stress was placed on understanding and being understood. WUNDERBAR! Mr. Eugene Judge, Sr. Maria Goretti And Pam Prial MR. EUGENE JUDGE has built on the fine foundations he laid in '69 — 70 and the members of this year's Glee Club included several three part songs in their repertoire. The first term was spent preparing for AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS in which the Glee Club combined with the Dramatic Club. The second term was spent preparing for the Spring Concert in which both classical and modern songs were included. SR. MARIA GORETTI was Moderator of the Glee Club and PAM PRIAL was re-elected its President. Mr. Eugene Judge Among the new clubs formed this year was the Guitar Club of which SR. GORETTI was the Moderator and ROSEMARY BROOKS the first President. Members of the Club enjoyed each other’s playing, taught each other techniques and songs, and played at various school functions. Their first Concert was so well received by the students that it was decided to invite parents and friends to the second concert.

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Health And Physical Ed Mrs. Shirley McCormack, R.N. The TENDER, LOVING CARE of MRS. SHIRLEY McCORMACK is felt throughout the entire school. ‘FEELIN’ GROOVY?' — You’ll soon feel tops again! State Law requires regular courses in Health Education and this year the Sopho mores were MRS. McCORMACK’s lucky students. Three days of each week MRS. Me CORMACK was ours - the other two she spent at a parochial school. It was while helping out in the Office there that she sliced a bit of her finger off with the paper cutter . . . and for two weeks she wore a bandage, tied with a yellow l-must- remember bow. This year MRS. McCORMACK again orga- nized the Faculty Cheerleaders for the FACULTY STUDENT Basketball Game at Hallowe’en. An hour before the game was scheduled to start a Sophomore fell and cracked her ankle. What could a nurse do? She had no choice — ROSEMARY had to be brought to DR. VAN ZANDT. The FAC- ULTY lost (again) . . . perhaps this time because MRS. McCORMACK was missing. Miss Ruth Raynor One afternoon last fall MISS RAYNOR gave a lecture on Rembrandt. MISS MANNHAUPT and a few other members of the Faculty, plus an interested group of Freshmen at tended. Although her past experience includes professional art and retailing MISS RUTH RAY- NOR has been a swimming coach and interested in other forms of athletics too. For the first few weeks in the fall she stressed hockey and horseback riding. Then the basketball season got under- way. Once a month a student took over — and it became a ‘do-your-own-thing’ day. October came — and a West Point First Classman asked Will you?’ MISS RAYNOR said Yes!’ The wedding will take place in June, and next year we’ll have to have a new coach again!