Bishop Neumann Catholic High School - Cavalog Yearbook (Wahoo, NE)

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Working together perfects skills Through pantomines, oral inter- pretations of literature and duet acting scenes, Miss Marylou Wirth’s drama students explored the fun- damentals of acting and worked on perfecting their skills. Drama I students studied dramatic structure and play production. Working on a one act play for contests and trying their hand at directing, drama II students increased their awareness of the elements included in the various forms of drama. Later in the year they prepared and performed a children’s play for the St. Wenceslaus grade school. Speech I students were in- troduced to the communication pattern and the various forms of verbal and nonverbal communication using role playing and word games. These acquired skills aided them in giving their final semester exam speech. Speech II class reviewed the basic speech skills they learned in speech I and added to these. After studying the different types of speeches each student was required to give a speech for each category. These students took turns giving weekly C.B. reports after the Friday morning announcements. In March, speech students par- ticipated in conference and district speech meets. Those finishing first or second at the district meet attended the state contest on April 11. While studying the various forms of commun- ication, Pam Konecky and Peggy Lynch use facial and body language to show their feelings when discussing the draft. ABOVE RIGHT. Tillie’s (Renee Masek) science Fair project is the main discussion of Beatrice (Barb Meduna) and Ruth (Maggie Sullivan) in a rehearsal of the one act play performance, THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON-MARIGOLDS. Ms. Eilene Wirth, social service editor for the Omaha World Herald newspaper, talks to speech II students about her career work and the importance of speech in her job. 28 Speech Drama

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 i Lwi Sr. Kathleen Cramer. N.C., follows the text of a drama book as sophomores take turns reading aloud in English class. UPPER LEFT: French II students Lori Hakel. Joann Burklund. John Koranda. Marc Polacek and Peggy Lynch watch in anticipation as Mr. Sill prepares the cherries jubilee for their class. Dean Virgl makes use of a room 24 resource center by reading The Devil and Daniel Webster for his English class. English French 27

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Intro to arts broadens freshmen’s background Should I take art, chorus, drama or band?, was a question going through many of the future fresh- men’s minds as they registered for their classes. Those who didn’t take any art classes took introduction to fine arts, offered to make the person aware intellectually, morally and creatively to his or her environment. It also helped those students wishing to advance in specific areas of the arts. The format of the schedule was changed from four nine week ses- sions to three twelve week sessions. Heading these were Miss Marylou Wirth, drama; Mrs. Sue Wortman and Mr. Bill Reece, music; and Mr. Herm Rauth, art. It was hoped that intro, to arts would be an introduction to some freshmen’s future in one of the arts. ABOVE: During an introduction to tine arts class, Joel Woita listens to Mrs. Sue Wortman’s musical analyzation of the theme from the PINK PANTHER. What do you call this sculpture? exclaims Don Swartz, while Tom Cerovsky, Joel Woita and Todd Morrissey read the inscription of the sculpture at Sheldon Art Gallery. Intro, to Fine Arts 29