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

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Keeping her classes looking up obviously is no problem for Sister Mary Noel, head of the En- glish department. “How about me?’’ Eager sophs, Mike Donnelly, Debbie Ker- rins, Carol Prefontaine, Maureen Birch, Susan Duffaney, Shar- on LaPorte vie for attention in Mr. Thibault’s English class. — Senior honors class in English prepare some outside reading for their next paper on the modern novel. Shown are Nancy Bryson, Lynne Murray, Ray O’Brien, Nancy Theriault, Peter Phipps, Paul Jacobs. Adventure, Enrichment, Whoosh! Whiz!' No, that is not a chemistry experiment gone astray. The jet age has caught up Feehan’s English department with Sister Mary Noel at the head in the pilot’s seat. Experimenting with the linguistic approach to language study among the fresh- men, piloting honors classes in sophomore, junior, and senior years, exploiting audio-visual aids to their fullest, sponsoring prize- winning essay and poetry writing, our English teachers use all available means to foster habits of effective communication and understanding. To prepare the student for successful mastery of his native tongue, Feehan offers a sequential program. Freshmen concentrate on a linguistic approach to the study of language and an enriched literature program. American and British literature, in- tensified vocabulary study and composition keep sophs and ju- niors, flying in the jet stream. Seniors stay on flight plan with a thorough course in writing—even one or two term papers, accord- ing to schedule—and an analytical study of literature from Sophocles to Tennessee Williams with major stress on contemporary writers. Department’s copilots are $.M. Enda, $.M. Angelica, S.M. Hope, S.M. Faith, and Mr. Roger Thibault. Sophomores, Ellen Brennan, Melanie Wilk, Linda LaPierre, and Christine Davignon lead a class discussion on the evolution of present day slang.

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Research for Religion class, guided by S.M. Julian, is engaged in by Tim Nolan, Mary Brady, and Janet Daigle. Involves Students in Full Liturgical Living. Lively discussion in $.M. Angelica’s senior religion class, led by Benja- min Bilello, and enjoyed by Elyse Parmentier, Carol Roy, Kenny Duquette, Mission poster engages $.M. Hope’s sopho- and Suzette Cardin. mores, Betsy MacDonald and Thomas Garlick. Movies illustrating teen-age prob- lems are shown monthly to S.M. Othilda’s religion classes. 11

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“Webster's Third is the dictionary for today, ‘‘explains Sister Mary Enda, as she compares it with Webster's Second Jnternational Dictionary for Michael Zito and Richard Antone, members of the experimental section of freshmen English. Comparing their illustrated interpre- tations of Chaucer’s Canterbury Cales are Kathy Lang and Michele Soul- ard. Experimentation Enliven English Classes. More Chaucer reports and consequent good grades bring smiles of pleasure to Nancy Martell and Joan Kapolchok. Admiring Feehan’s model of the Globe Theater, made in their freshman English class by Janet Cameron and Laura Lee, are juniors Michael Clark and Sandra Duquette who have just read Macbeth.