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

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Another Feehan First! In their first year in the diocesan Math League, Feehan math champions, Richard MacAdams, Michael McGrath, Blais Krupowicz, with their moderator and math department head, S.M. Virginia, George Kaczowka, and John Mandeville topped all competitors in the first meet. Feehan Champs Top Diocesan Math League. Puzzles posed by angles, triangles, and circles engross sophomores, Donna Pombriant and Kathleen Condon. Aside from his coaching duties, Mr. Harold Hanewich teaches sophomore geometry classes.

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“Latin IIl-IV does have its light moments!”’ say S.M. Angelica, Charles Deschenes, and Jerry Flanagan, all smiling Ciceronians. Caesar and Sophomores, Melanie Wilk and Blanche Gravel, in Mr. Blais’ Latin II seem to mix agreeably. “Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, anybody inter- ested?”’ Intrepid students of classical Latin dare to tread where lesser men dare not venture. On an elective basis, Latin claims two freshmen and three sophomore classes taught by Mr. Ernest Blais, and one select junior-senior seminar under $.M. Angeli- ca’s direction. This last group study Cicero or Virgil in alternate years. Emphasis is placed on the value of studying Latin for its own sake as the language of one of the greatest cultures of our western world. Over and beyond purchase price, goods bought at the freshmen’s Fench penny sale in $.M. Paschaline’s class had to be bargained for in French! No problem for Michael DeClemente and Tony Cacciapaglia to put in their French bid for their favorite comic book with saleslady, Joan Plante.

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Modern Math Challenges Feehan Students. “Where no breeze blows!’’ Advanced Math class members, Danny Blake, Lois Rhilinger, and Jane Grenier struggle through Modern Introductory Analysis. To Math problems or just problems, Mrs. Sandra Weintraub, algebra and Physical Education teacher, knows that S. M. Virginia always has a good an- swer. Mathematics, mother of all the sciences, is one of the most active and productive subjects we study. Feehan’s college preparatory students are offered a most challenging program. All freshmen take Algebra I, all sophomores, Geometry. Juniors may elect Algebra Il. Intermediate and Advanced VT lopped: | Math are open as electives to qualified seniors. ts bnoweng tht and The department’s newest project, the math club, ; brought honors home from their first competitive meet by coming out in top place. Sister Mary Vir- ginia heads the department and is assisted by Sis- ter Mary Therese Agnes, Mr. Harold Hanewich, Mrs. Sandra Weintraub, and Mr. Thomas Maccar- one. Judging by the smiles, we think that John Baldwin and Mary Alice Mulligan must know all the answers! Preparing to use visual aids for her accelerated class, S. M. Therese Agnes enlists the aid of Michael McGrath.