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

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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!

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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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The students in MRS. MILDRED FERRIS's Studio Art Courses were more enthusiastic — and productive — than ever in Cer- amics. They enjoyed creating beautiful, clever and or funny ‘objets d’arte.’ While it was frustrating to accomplish so much with her students and have so little on display in the studio, MRS. FERRIS realized that doing someTHING special for someONE special was an incentive resulting in the best possible work. So there was no hesitation — finished work was brought home — and given away. As always in her art classes, MRS. FERRIS’s students each ‘did her own thing!’ Oil or water color, pencil or pen and ink or scratchboard, pastels or finger painting, landscapes or seascapes, animals or flowers or still life, fashion design or portrait sketching could be found in some corner of the studio. Despite this already rich variety this year MRS. FER RIS added sculpture, modelling with clay and chip carving, and the results were original and beautiful. Stage Design, ‘FINE ARTS FESTIVAL’ in oriental characters, an A M S V ’ banner for the Mothers’ Guild Luncheon and Fashion Show were other contributions of MRS. FERRIS to the Mount. Mrs. Mildred Ferris Creativity In Studio Courses Objectivity In Lecture Courses By mid year SR. CONSTANCE MARY’s Art Appreciation students had learned that they were not expected to react to all paintings in the same way — and that SISTER was perfectly happy to have them respond favorably to paintings on her ‘rejected’ list, as long as they could give reasons for their reactions. Soon all were able to recognize dozens of paintings and the techniques of most of the great masters even from a detail or fragment. Then Sister tried an experi- ment Students pantomined certain well-known paintings — e.g. Renoir’s ‘In the Meadow,' Degas’s ‘Woman with Chrysanthemums, ’ Cot’s ‘The Storm,’ Sargent’s ‘The Wyndham Sisters’ and others. SR. MARIAN FRANCIS’S training was evident in many of the tableaux. SR. CONSTANCE MARY is also Moderator of the Yearbook. 30 Sr. Constance Mary