Holy Redeemer High School - Campanile Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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2 SENTINEL March 31, 1966 T 00 Soon IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 1984-- Twen ty Years WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY These are the principles ofasociety, a Utopia, in George Orwell's book, 1984. This future generation lives in fear of mind investigators, the Thought Police, who vaporize anyone who questions, who feels, who loves. An advanced dictatorial unit, The Inner Party, seeks to supress man to an unperson, seeks to stereotype him, by elimin- ating his individual nature, his will and his freedom. It seeks to supplant God with Big Brother. Is this 1984 so different, so far-fetched from now, from 1966? Of course, our government isn'tBig Brother, but what about man himself. Is he not in his created society, trying to embrace theseprinciples? What is accepted? 'What is in? and What will people say? are allrealities of our conformist society, of our group worship. No longer is man valued for himself, but now we, the children of Eve, fall on our faces and cry to our god, Society, I needacar. I must haveamink. I must be rich, or successful. Have we unknowingly made our own demanding, consuming, greedy, Big Brother? This Big Brother we have created has already made the rules for 1984 of our own Utopia. He has made his extremist, his passivist, his conformist war parties in the all too fertile soil of the teen, the young idealist. His generals are the staunch adults of the militant fifties. WAR IS PEACE Policies of the generals: Kill or be killed. To get some place in business you have to step on people, and you gotta get what ya can. Is not this peace to many people? Is not this the law of our peaceful society? Do we not commit crime and enjoy it? How often do we mutilate the feelings and the hopes of others and just brush it off? How often do we knock people down and say, in effect, You're stupid. Our answer: Very often. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY Policies of the generals: Don'tthink! Don't speakout! Keep quiet! It's accepted so what's your problem? Isn't hiding under the blanket of society, freedom to many? Are we content, so content, to remain secure and happy with what the crowd demands ? Is it not good to be a vegetable--non-thinking? Is not this slavery freedom from the pain of the world? Our answer: Yes! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Policies of the generals: If you know too much you're dangerous. What do the gangs think about school, knowledge, culture? How often is the brain ridiculed? How often do people rest in self-satisfaction of their knowledge? How often do they refuse to face the truth? Our answer: Very often! These policies show man's nature being vaporized. The murderer is Society. We do things for the wrong purpose, for money, for status, or for power. We have seen all too clearly the apathy of today's rank and file. Murders, rapes, gang fights go on, and people are complacent. Do we not call men like ourselves, niggers? Our answer: Of course! How long will this go on? Will we continue to live by these principles? Will we re- main apathetic when someone is being knifed? Or, will we fight when someone is attacked. Will we be willing to give our lives for others ? Will we finally stand back, look, and see what we are doing? Our answer: It remains only a question! Grape Juice - Wanted Television commercials are often con- sidered ridiculous because of the exag- gerated situations they present. Some commercials, in contrast can be sized up and found quite true. Everyone who at one time or another has watched television has seen the com- mercialinwhicha woman and her family have become listless and have slumped into the valley of fatigue. Their method of revival is to drink a glass of grape juice. That same valley of fatigue is now catching many a Redeemerite. The set- ting is perfect. There is no spring pro- duction to get excited about, there are no tickets to sell, there are no more games or players to cheer for, the weather is warm, there are less than forty days of school left, and no one feels like doing very much any more. The fourth and last quarter of the year is beginning. It is the last opportunity we will have to perk up and aim at fin- ishing the year off well. For the seniors, that letter of accep- tance from the college doesn't mean that the Admissions Office will close its eyes to your final marks. For everyone else the school year that is marred by end of the year slump can never be regained. We have no glass of grape juice that is powerful enough to revive us, but we do have willpower, whichif put to work can do tremendous things. All the energy we can muster should be aimed at finishing agoodschool year with, ifpossible, even more enthusiasm than we began it with. EDITORIAL PAGE No. 6 Seanel V01. XI Published Monthly Co-Editors Lester Goodchild Ramona Misiunas John Emig Barbara Brombach Jane Camilleri Susan Parker Gerry Durocher Duane Pennebaker Lynn Neeley Sister Alphonsus Lay-Out Editor Page Editors Sports Editor Business Mgr. Typing Editor Adviser

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SENTINEL V01 XI Holy Redeemer High School, Detroit 9, Michigan, March 31, 1966 No. 6 Early Buzzers Trap Panel on Quiz iEm Holy Redeemer was outscored by its opponent, St. Ladislaus 0n Quiz 'Em On The Air 780-640, or an average of three questions. The participants Leonard Nosal, Mary Abela, Sandra Pomicter, and Ramona Misiunas, together with Mr. Shirkey who coached them, spent much time and put forth much effort, but it just wasn't quite enough. According to the panelists, the schoolfrom Hamtramck took more of the chances on early buzzers, while the Re- deemerites hesitated to run the risk of penalties. The winner usually has a choice of a movie projector or a record player, and the runner-up must take a record player . Since St. Ladislaus already had a movie projector they chose the record player. As there was only one projector and one recordplayer in the studio, the judge asked Mr. Shirkey if the school would ac- cept the projector. Needless to say, Mr. Shirkey said, Yes! Even without a victory, the work was not in vain, since for most of the Re- deemerites it was the first time they had been in a television studio. As they en- tered the studio, they were greeted by a questionfrom the St. Ladislaus panelist. Why is Africa cool? As yet no one has that answer. Both panels received their preliminary instructions from Miss Bernice Thayer, one of the judges. She immediately rec- ognized Mr. Shirkey as the son of one of the Detroit News Photographers. K utkus Repeats Senior Mindaugas Kutkus, two-year top winner in the Michigan Math Test illus- trates the elliptic graph. Are we supposed to know about the latest sales, too? Sandra Pomicter and Ramona Misiunas confer while Mary Abela and Leonard Nosal discuss sports news in prepara- tion for their debut on Quiz 'Em on the Air. The party was then taken to the taping room, where the panel boxes and tele- vision cameras were set up. What impressed, or rather, alarmed the panelists was the fact that most of the foam covering on the panel box had been clawedoff byformer nervous contestants. After thirty minutes of quick thinking, and some forgetting, the final buzzer put an end to the 1966 Quiz 'Em. State Math Honor Last year, Mindaugas Kutkus scored high on the Michigan Math Test, but this year he broke his own record. He placed thirty-eighth out of more than 27, 000 stu- dents who took the first part of the test. Any Math student was eligible to take the first part of the test but only 1169 of the participants remained eligible for the second part. In his second year as a finalist Min- daugas reached the top two-tenths of one percent missing a Math scholarship by only two points. Most of the students in the competition had the advantage of special advanced math courses. Redeemer does not offer this type of course but his teachers main- tain that Mindaugas has done a great deal of extra study on his own. A creative mathematician, Mindaugas plans to havea double major in Math and Physics atUof M, and afterwards hopes to help in the space effort. Students Attend Model UN The University of Detroit has invited Redeemer's delegations fromfour coun- tries to attend the seventh annual Model UN. The countries represented by Re- deemer students are India, Cambodia, Mongolia, and the Dominican Republic. It will be a three-day stand, from the 25th to the 27th of March, with regis- tration, speeches, and meetings. One question that will be discussed is the Legal Aspect of Peaceful Uses in Outer Space. Others concern security, trusteeship, economy, and humanitarian problems. Keynote speakers will be G. Mennen Nilliams, J. Paul Phillips, and some real delegates to the UN from Iran and the Congo. Girls Miss West Side Title. A successful basketball season for the Girls' Varsity and Junior Varsity ended with a near championship. In the finals of the St. Alphonsus Basketball Tourna- ment the Redeemer Varsity was defeated by St. Alphonsus 14-13. The J V team was also defeated by St. Alphonsus 20-9. Both Redeemer teams ended the season, ranking third in the CYO League. The Varsity was unable to participate in city competition because they were un- able to find a sponsor.

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Lynn Neeley and Nancy Haskett share a student listening post as they take dic- tation at challenging speeds. SENTINEL 3 Mrs. Lewis demonstrates the new short- hand dictation equipment as she prepares to run the three speed tapes. 'Electronic Classroom' Speeds Shorthund Skills Old-fashioned Gregg shorthand is now being taught with modern electronics at Redeemer. The recently acquired equip- ment, housed in Room 303, consists of three tape recorders and twenty-six in- dividual listening posts. This electronic classroom is simi- lar in operation to the Language Lab. Each listening post consists of a portable receiver, which accommodates two stu- dents, eachofwhom has aseparate head- set. The two students must agree on the speed and volume of the dictation they will take. Choral Rates Excellent In the annual Choral Adjudication held on March 20 at Dominican High School, the Redeemer Choral, under the direc- tion of Sister Georglyn, brought home a rating of Excellent. The two numbers sung by the Choral were Brahms' How Lovely Is Thy Dwel- ling Place, and All Creatures of Our God and King by Chapman. The Choral began intensive practice for the Adjudication just after My Fair Lady took her last bow. Although the time was short. said Sister Georglyn, the Choral took up the challenge and ex- ceeded their expectations. The fact that two other choral groups also sang How Lovely ls Thy Dwelling Place, was a surprise which gave the Redeemerites a moment of uneasiness . The following Friday, since the student body seldom has the opportunity to hear them, the Choralperformed at Assembly. They added to their Adjudication rep- ertoire several semi-classical and pop- ular numbers and featured several 5010 numbers. The soloists were Nancy Kieliszewski, Brian Forintos, and Pamela Stanczak. Jim Hetner, Marty Colbeck, and Tom Trahey treated the students to a re-do of Little Bit of Luck, of My Fair Lady fame, only a trifle subdued. One of three different speeds being transmitted may be selected for practice. The classroom atmosphere is one of ab solute silence broken only by the rus- tle of paper when the girls turn pages as they feverishly write in script. The new equipment provides a chal- lenge to shorthand students at all levels because each student works at her own dictation speed. Mrs. Barbara Lewis, who teaches the course, is most enthusiastic about the equipment. She said that as far as she knows, Redeemer is the only high school in the city of Detroit, or its vicinity, to have its own electronic shorthand lab. One of the greatest advantages is that the system is mobile. There are no wires running across the room. Flexibility and speed are the two main improvements that characterize the elec- tronic business classroom. NHS Re wards Scholarship By Bev Broniak '68 This year, the National Honor Society kept some traditions but used some new ideas in the Induction Ceremony. PresidentJames Hetner explained the aims and the requirements of the Honor Society and then turned the mike over to Ramona Misiunas, Vice-President; and Susan Omilian, Secretary. They intro- duced the new members by giving a brief commentary on the personality and ac- tivities of each. After the new and old members recited the Honor Society Pledge, Mother Ann Mary, Principal, addressed the student body. She congratulated not only those who had attained membership in the Society but also those who had done their best. Father Monroe then congratulated the students, and endedwith words of praise for the JV Team who have attained the championship, and the cast and all who participated in the recent production of the musical, My Fair Lady. James Hetner ended the ceremony by saying that he hoped the induction would prove to be an incentive for the fresh- men to try for membership. FNC Aids Cancer Society Anyone who happened to walk by the Guidance Center on Saturday, March 19, would have seen the Future Nurses' Club at work. Their employer was the Na- tional Cancer Foundation; and their work was to stamp, sort, and count brochures to be passed out during the Foundation's door-to-door campaign in April. Mr. DavidScott, representative of the Foundation thanked the girls, and told them that a Certificate of Appreciation would be sent to the school. Sister Marie Angela, Librarian, Joins Ranks of Authors Sister Marie Angela, a high school li- brarian, who has spent hours cataloguing the books of other authors, has now writ- ten one of her own. Her first book, just off the press, Teens Triumphant is a series of biographical sketches of teen- age saints. The title, Sister explained, refers to the saints as heroes and heroines who were confronted by moral dilemmas, made the right decisions, and became spiritual successes. Sister says also, I hope that this book willinspire the readers to couple a true sense of individualism and responsibility with the grace ofGod, to become a saint. This book will be a success if even one person learns to love these heroes and heroines and love God as they did. The book is published by the Paulist Press and is available in the regular ed- ition and in paperback. Sister Marie Angela looks pleased as she autographs a copy of her book.