Immaculata High School - Guerin Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Vita! Vite! commands Madame Bernier as she demands a quick answer from Peggy Kenney, Barbara Brooks, Sharron McKibbin, jane O'Brien, Ellen Forbes, Celeste Renaud, and Candace Thurston. Second-year students Carmela Puglisi and Janis Pohanka inves- tigate the adventures of the Curies. 31 New Methods Used With Old Language Allons enfants de la patrie . . . The refrains of the Ma1'seillaz'se are shouted to the rafters as IHS linguists assume French ac- cents imitating Mesdames Bern- ier or Young or ma Soeur Ann Louise. A new system of records and tapes, A-LM QAudio-Lin- gual Materialsj, allows students to hear and repeat French phrases before they are actually seen in print. With this method, introduced for the first time this year, college candidates will have no trouble fulfilling language proficiency requirements.

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Students Explore Classical World Porto, portas, portat . . . In first-year Latin, Mrs. Fanning, Mrs. Howard, and Sister Rose Aloyse teach IHS girls endless declensions, conjugations, and constructions. In second year, sophomores begin to apply the results of their earlier labors to the Commentaries. Third-year students delight in comparing the orations of Cicero with those of today's politicans. Mrs. Howard brings the Aeneid to life as she takes sen- iors through Aeolus' wind-caves, Pluto's underworld, and Dido's Carthage. War stories, political scandals, romance, and mythology: all of Uh . . stannners Margaret Zebot in reply to Harriette Veirs' question. Latin classicists Gale Carrington, Marianna Law, Mary Straub, Vicki Makofske, Gwen Cavanagh, and Dian Callaghan await their turns. these elements combine to make the Latin department at IHS outstanding. Norah Boyle reminds fellow students Maureen Cunning- ham and Marsha Duvall of a coming lecture at George- town forum on Greek culture. 30 Margaret Mickler pauses to think while Robinette Perry, Patricia Adler, Marie Conroy, and Kitty Carroll follow in their books. Sylvia Borges and Kathy Gillespie work assiduously at the board.

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New Language Department Flourishes A small group of students de- light in puzzling fellow class- mates by gibbering a seemingly unfathomable language-Rus sian. During the Russian de- partment's relatively short exist- ence, Mrs. Kalikan has managed to make the incomprehensible jumble of consonants a language meaningful to her students. Russian grammar, literature, and culture are all included in the two years offered. To im- prove their fluency, the girls go to the language lah once a week. 'LEEAPK -Q Margie Clough, Marianna Law, and Karen Cyrus listen attentively to Valerie Elkins' reading. Mary joe Grimm, Judy Miller, Margie Oehmann, and Mary Ellen Scalessa adjust their earphones and don their Spanish accents, ready to repeat the sounds they hear on the tape. Luxuriating in the warmth of the sheepskm lined jacket Kathy Sheldon shows Mary YVooldr1dge the thick Russian fur.