Holy Family High School - Spires Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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Freshman B students listen intently as Father lven demonstrates, in a dry Mass, the reading of the Epistle. ' RELIGICN SPARKS POSITI E CONVICTIONS Ear at 2115 With Audio aids as a supplement, the senior girls, Beverly Brown, Eileen McSherry, and Willie Marie Wamego look over one of the booklets they put together on the preparations for marriage, while Barbara Abbot, Alberta Carson, Betty Lou Ramey, and Barbara Gran discuss the duties to that state in life.

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LASSE virtually Although the subjects we took at Holy Family this year are the same as those the first class of Holy Family once had, very real differences in our educational system have been taking place, even in that relatively small space of time. Perhaps the 1'HOSt striking of these differences is the strong national em- phasis on all scientific courses in recent years and the accompanying stress on math. Chemistry, as we know it, was unheard of in the classroom when HF first opened, and even when it was introduced, the lab equipment and the type of experiments were very simple for quite a while. Now, when more and more is learned about chemistry every day, and textbooks are sometimes outdated within a year's time, a course in chemistry is very different from a course offered even twenty years ago. Writing is becoming recognized as a skill which can and should be de- veloped in average high school students, to be used by ordinary people as a powerful force in our democracy. The grammatical purists' day is past, and a more casual, more flexible English is becoming the rule. Even colloqu alisms, instead of being completely put away as uneducated, are highly valued colorful and effective means of reaching the minds of others, Like students ut in hours of cramming history dates and foreign teachers, who say these i- as a of forty years ago, we alsop language declensions into our heads, trusting that our things give us a better understanding of people are right, but never before have those words been SO right and of such universal importance. Even the study of our timeless religion has changed, so that now we are increasingly concerned with the practical application of it today and the intelligent expression of its living principles. In every way our classes are more elastic, more personal, more casual than those of our predecessors because of the growing need for understanding and tolerance in our world.

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F N RG EU f Richard Timnie runs through an explanation of five tenses to the second year Spanish students, Linda Helms, Pete Siemon, Charles Forde, Jeannie Welch, and Donna Arrigo, who look as if they already understood it. B R O 1 D A E With the Bible as a reference, Rosemarie Detrich, Charles Pinney, j0h11Fiveash, and Ann Bohmer determine the meaning of the Advent symbols to be translated later into latin.