Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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'60 Grads Admonish College Hopefuls Educational exploration is under- way at Assumption. Two special events — College Night and Career Week — are coming up on the schedule; the Booster Club Parent’s Night was held Sept. 21. Because of student comment last year that College Night and Career Week should be held earlier, school authorities have moved these events to mid-October. (Last year Career Week was held March 6-12.) Grad Mary Sue Schwietcrs ’60, now at Marycrest says, “College night was held so late that most of the students had already made a choice as to which college to attend.” She also thought that it would be profitable to have a sep- arate night for the juniors in April. Pat Deluhery, another ’60 graduate now at Notre Dame comments, “Career Week was really valuable because near- ly all the students actually participated in each workshop. Even if you’ve al- ready decided on a career or college to attend, just hearing about it is en- couraging.” Some of the careers represented last year were: (for girls) cosmotologist, airline stewardess, women’s armed services, medical technologist, and re- ceptionist; (for boys) architects, law- yers, teachers, coaches, doctors and engineers. Colleges represented last year were: Notre Dame, Catholic University of Washington, D. C., St. Ambrose, St. Mary’s of Winona, Marquette, Loyola, St. Norbert, Georgetown, St. Louis University, Rosary, and Marycrest. These schools will participate again in this year’s College Night. Nearly one-half of the ’60 graduates are at- tending college this fall. Fr. Francis Bass, diocesan director of vocations, will give a religious voca- tion talk in November, which will be vocation month for the diocese. Last Wednesday evening the first public meeting of the AHS Booster Club was held. Mr. R. M. Keefe, Direc- tor of Admissions of St. Louis Univer- sity, spoke on the growing need for academic excellence to insure success. SISTER CLAIRE MARIE, CHM, who replaces Sister St. Edward, CHM, form- erly taught at St. Ambrose Academy. Exchange Student Assumption Annexes Helmut Assumption has 963 students plus one. The extra is Helmut Steiner. Hel- mut, Assumption’s first foreign ex- change student, comes from Vienna, Austria. His arrival in America last July climaxed months of testing, filling out questionnaires and obtaining a visa. Helmut was concerned about the visa which “came only 14 days before I was to leave.” Leaving Austria in the early part of July, the foreign student boarded a “WE HAVEN’T GOT A CHANCE!” moan Judy Scott ’62, and Pat Friedrichs '62, in mock dismay. Marycrest freshmen Mary Denise O’Brien, Mary Ann Sunder- bruch and Mary Sue Schwieters, amused at the juniors’ reaction, find that many of the Guidepost rules are unwritten laws in college. train for Frankfurt, Germany. He then flew to Washington, D.C. where he and 147 foreign exchange students at- tended orientation periods and toured the Capital. He came to Davenport by train and is now living with the Richard Scheblers, 2132 Frisco Drive. The tests included giving a speech in English and answering questions concerning Austria, Europe and Amer- ica. Also he was quizzed about his health, family and school records. Speaking of the differences in our educational systems the Austrian not- ed, “You learn as much as we do but in a longer time.” Just sixteen, he has already studied religion, German, Eng- lish, Latin, French, physics, chemistry, math, art, history, music, shorthand and geography. Helmut also stated, “We must take art and music in our pub- lic schools, but here you do not have to.” He remarked that there are few private schools in Austria. A senior this year, Helmut is study- ing Latin, English, advanced algebra, Spanish, religion and American his- tory and government. One of his main problems in Latin is that he must translate first from Latin to German and then into Eng- lish. (See Helmut’s own story on page 8-9.) During his spare time, Helmut en- joys reading, the theatre and movies. “In Vienna we often get the Ameri- can movies before many of you do,” he says. “The translated movies are usually sent to the foreign countries two months after their formal pre- miere.” Before he returns home in the latter part of June or early July, he will have a more detailed tour of Washington and New York. 2