DeSales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Language — Key to Cultural It has been exciting to speak and write in a tongue unknown to many of our acquaintances. We found keen pleasure in capturing from our reading the thoughts of people of distant lands. The glory of a Spanish legend, the logical thought so characteristic of the French, and the orderly precision and clarity of basic Latin, have made the knowledge of foreign languages an adventure in cul- tural enrichment. A Point of Grammar (Upper) Francis Caravita explains the use of the subjunctive mode to De- lores Picchi, Josephine DiAntonio, Marlene Bell, Marie Giardino while Sister Rosemary listens. Look, Here's Rome Edward Carney, with much confidence, shows the ancient center of Chris- tianity, culture, and learning to Benita Stockman, Melanie Smaldone, Michael Maslyn, Evelyn Mahoney and Sister Marie Margaret. 24

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Harmony in Measurement Adventure! The thrill of the unknown and the challenge of completing a difficult feat are deeply ingrained in the heart of all true students. Cer- tainly mathematics offers these! Don’t we feel a sense of control and mastery of the forces which surround us when we complete correctly a prob- lem which calls upon both our store of knowledge and our reasoning ability? We know that it is the developing of mathematical facility which will soon bring the secrets of the earth to light, and the stars within our grasp. And, as we lay down our pencils and relax after demonstrating our growing knowl- edge, we all feel a sense of satisfaction at having completed something worthwhile, difficult, and mentally stimulating. We Know the Unknown Ruth Brennan explains the solution of an equa- tion to Robert Heintz and Robert Fulton while Mar- guerite Lynch and Joanne Oddi work at their desks. Facts and Figures Elizabeth Madigan, Mary Hamill, and Thomas Flood demonstrate some of the polygons which they and fellow classmates, Shirley Baiis- treri, Jeanne Brodeur, Sandra Howard, Marlene Church, and Andrea Jenkins frequently use in geometric proofs. Sister Agnes Catherine looks on.

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Treasures Examining the French Party Line Pas de tout and s’il vous plait are more than courte- ous expressions when we see them illustrated on humorous cocktail napkins. Enjoying the idea which came to the artist from the French sound are (seated) Mary Alice Lynch, Frances Liberatore, Joan Lynch, Loretta Palmer; (standing) James Taylor, Anthony D’Amico, Sister Francis Cecilia. Would That He Had Stayed Home (i.e., Aeneas) Beverly Heflferon points out the wanderings of Aeneas to (clockwise) David Maslyn, Jean Bolin, Beatrice Liberatore, Kevin Lawlor, James Lawlor, Dr. Hogan and Mary Kay Smead. 25