Incarnate Word High School - Star Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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In the department of English Sister Mary Cli- macus, Sister Brendan Marie, Sister Ieanne de Matel, and Sister Mary Stephen help us to acquire a love of good books and to improve our skill in oral and written discourse. Grammar is an indispensable tool in the mastery of correct English. Here Sister Brendan Marie checks the board work of Marguerite Panza and Hilda Cavazos. How to study...Carolyn Taranto and Mary Ann Weiss learn the secret of correct study habits. Seeing is believing . . . Sister Brendan Marie here supple- ments a unit on The Tale of Two Cities with a showing of the film. These attentive sopho- mores follow with interest the fate of their hero, Sydney Car- ton. 19

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Literatu re English . . . our native language . . . a field Without limit Q I . . . four years far too short a time to learn all the grammar, Macbeth acclaimed at IWC Drama Festival. Winning cast poses after pre- sentation of scenes from Shake- speare's great drama: Sylvia Na- varro, narrator: Alma Lopez, mes- senger: Mary Ioe Diegel, Lady Mac- beth: ludy Neitzel, Macbeth: Toni Kunz, physician: Rosemary Morris, lady-in-waiting. Whan that aprille with his shoures sote . . . Chaucer's creations come in for live- ly discussion in Sister Mary Clima- cus' English class. Dorothy Kennell, Rosemarie Trevino, and Hope lim- enez are having a good time, and so is the teacher! 18 literature, and composition techniques . . . four years by far too short to exhaust the literary treasures of Shakespeare, Ten- nyson, Dickens, Longfellow, Scott, Emerson, etc., etc. lnto each life some rain must fall. It is actually pouring here at English IV, as Sister Mary Clima- cus supervises a sti ff test in English literature. we-:r-wer--.rr'.t--ftezulurgmtrwr r-'. 51. 1 -1 .immxxsns - 1 use wsm7s:sw-uuammww

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Conversation telephone . platform . Speech I aims to lay a foundation in diction, articu- lation, and pronunciation, With training in fundamentals of expression. From the beginning, the art of conversa- tion is considered, and practical exercises are given in class. Few students will become professionals on the stage, but all will have social relationships in life Where the ability to converse, to talk interestingly and convinc- ingly, and to deport oneself with ease and poise, Will prove of inestirnable value. Current events are discussed, and the ability to think on one's feet, and to express one's ideas forcefully and directly, is developed by actual practice. Four score and seven years ago . . Rose Irene Hair makes a tape recording of Ioan Ullrich's in- terpretation of the Gettysburg Ad- dress. Ioan Reyes lends a critical ear to the performance. Mrs. Iulia Weaver, Teletraining In- structor of the SBTC shows the right and Wrong of telephone usage. Mabel Chacin, Maria Luisa Heredia, and Angela Schodts demonstrate for speech class. Members of Speech I class refuse to believe their ears when they hear the play-back of their speeches. Irene Hair operates the machine.