Bishop Feehan High School - Flashback Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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and our future in the space age. Smile! It’s non-assignment night in Mr. Hanewich’s geometry ROW: Roberta Laffey, James Raposa, Denise Prefontaine, class. ROW NEAR THE BOARD: Kathy Lang, Randy Matto, Donald Joubert, Douglas McCabe, Arthur Major, Mike Shea; Richard McCarthy, Mike Whalen, Edward Shockro; NEXT IN RIGHT FRONT SEAT, Paul Courtemanche. Balancing algebraic equations bewilders some freshmen. AT THE BOARD are Gail Gingras, Kathy Pollis, Maureen Kelliher, Nadeen Tardiff. NEXT ROW are Beverly Voegele, Bernard Diamond, Ronnie Gray, Colleen Brogan. IN FOREGROUND are Linda Alhoe and Mary Peters. “What do you mean you don't get it?’’ John Mara dem- onstrates for Mary Ann Iwuc in S.M. Virginia's ad- vanced math class. 21

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Mathematics measures our present, our past, Among the lively and most important subjects at Feehan is mathematics. Realizing the vital need for math in man’s future, Feehan’s mathematics department has set up a thorough and challenging program. It is thorough, in that it begins with elementary algebra for freshmen, follows with basic geome- try for the sophomores, offers an ad- vanced level of algebra for juniors, and for seniors, concludes with an advanced math course which takes in everything from probabi lity and statistics to basic theory and logic. The program is chal- lenging, in that it coaxes the slow stu- dent, encourages the average scholar, and yet offers a challenge stiff enough to muddle even the math enthusiast. Feehan may well be proud of its math program. Those who deserve the real praise are our team of math teachers headed by Sister Mary Virginia, assisted by Sister Mary Therese Agnes, Sister Mary Incarnata, Mr. Harold Hanewich and Mrs. Sandra Weintraub. “The great race’’ — Richard Busby versus the slide rule. Sister Mary Virginia, head of the math department, and Bruce Carmichael are put- ting odds on the slide rule. In addition to her six math classes, Sister i keeps open house in her bookstore for starving candy customers. x It’s all right here in the book!”’ Mrs. Sandra Weintraub tells Carol ge wee 4 Prefontaine in her freshmen algebra. Mrs. Weintraub also teach- er | 4 es girls’ physical education and basketball. Por Pa the find Ae fonds. gee ah LN ed Explaining a pentagonal figure to Mary Ann La Palme and Roland Brillon is Mr. Harold Hanewich, math teacher and athletic director. 20

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Good business training instills good habits: — EEE E EE ee oe is despair, Ope; sees fhe WI rtiry trae Crem AAS ImK, Ny ate AOLANG ‘ “‘Indeed!”’ Sister Mary Timothy, head of the business department, makes her classic answer to her senior bookkeeping class. Sister also teaches reli- gion to seniors and is moderator of the Student Council. Nimble fingers keep pace with concentration in Sister Mary Timothy's typing class as Robert Perry, John Lee, Brian Frost, Cathy O'Neill, Rosemary Pittard, and Connie Bozzo keep eyes on copy, fingers on keys. 22 Click, clack . . . tick, tick . . . whirr-r, no, we are not recording Cape Kennedy’s complex machines, just Feehan’s busi- ness department at work. Sounds of music may come floating through the corridor as typists’ rhythmic fingers tap the keys in time to lively tunes. Pencils fly over dictation pads, as future stenog- raphers write their shorthand notes for later transcription into Modern American English. In office practice classes, stu- dents learn to operate business machines. Future bookkeepers balance work sheets and learn to be accurate. All students are taught to respect and care for their- modern office equipment, including IBM typewriters. Sister Mary Timothy, chairman of the department, keeps her assistants, Sister Mary Kilian and Sister Mary Julian alerted to modern techniques through current periodicals and attendance at business workshops. Both teachers and students help other busy faculty members with secretarial assistance on many occasions. Amid intent typists, Tom Lyons, Leo Melanson, Susan Craig, and Carol Love, Martin Lamoureux looks up to see what is going on. “We love typing, don’t we, Lightbulb?”’