Gabriels High School - Trumpet Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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CCTHERE ARE A FEW MQME TS I 1 X My Sister Thomas More and Mr. Spanoli teach the annals of yesterday to the hope of tomorrow, the major aim of the history department. State Supreme Court Justice O'Hara shows some of the Msgr. Gabriels High School Government students how the court works. Court was not in session. Joan Fabiano, Dolores Croze, and Jean Kavanagh stage a panel discussion for an avid freshman history class. 20

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Miss K1ein's pride and joy, the Robed Choir, consists of tablishments asthe First Friday Club and the Boys' Training over sixty dedicated members. This year they have per- School. formed throughout the greater Lansing area for such es- MU IC I MADE T0 BE APPRECIATED Miss Klein is an accomplished organist as well as an expert choral director, who dedicates her life to good music. Mr. Webster has given us many definitions of music. The formal one is, the science or art of incorporating intelligible combinations of tones into a composition having structure and continuity. Our band and choral departments employ the next two parts of the definition, vocal or instrumental sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony and an agreeable sound. Miss Klein leads our musically minded students into the excitement and joy of learning and successfully singing a new song. Because of this skill, our choral department has participated in many cultural activities such as the Festival of Arts at the Civic Center and concerts for the student body. You might say that they actively represent the school. They are planning to take part in our school musical this yearg their last year's performance in Oklahoma was excellent. Here comes the band, in their snappy new uniforms, marching up the avenue with their brass sounding and their drums booming. Mr. Peppel leads the band in their fast moving music and marching. The band often plays at our pep meetings, boosting the spirit of the students, Their enthusiasm is also shown at all of our home football and basketball games when they play the team to victory. National holidays often find them out high stepping to the martial tunes in a city parade. 19

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HI TORY THAT TRA SCE D TIME Tom Wright, Freshman historian, 'reconstructs' Europe for Sr. Catherine Loyola, his World History teacher. Mary Beth Lepczyk delivers her 'one hundred and one' un- usual and interesting facts about Thomas Jefferson to the Juniors. The signing of the Declaration of Independence, the sinking of the Titanic, the tragedy of Hiroshima, Pope Paul's visit to the United Nations, the Gemini space flights are some of the important events in history that are taught in the classrooms of Gabriels. History and Government unite together in one cause, the cause of building a model citizen. They try to instill in a Gabriels student the good qualities of a citizen in tomorrow's world. Awareness is a major responsibility of a citizen. A good citizen learns to observe, to think, and to form his own opinion. History and Government form the background material for these, the citizens of tomorrow. Our History and Government teachers stress current events. Most current changes and advances in government can be learned from the daily newspaper. Here History is recorded from day to day. A newspaper is an important piece of literature in the teaching of a class pertaining to history or government. Mr. Cook instructs the seniors in Government. Sister Thomas More and Mr. Spanoli are two of the teachers who instruct the underclassmen in World History and Ameri- can History. Margaret Chapman, senior, opposes the admission of Red China at an assembly during United Nations Week.