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

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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 loan Ullrich's in- terpretation of the Gettysburg Ad- dress. loan 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 Sc-hodts 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.

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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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Back to the classics! . . . The Pocket Library is the answer to the cry of avid sophomore readers Letty Nl. Garza, Pat Garcia, Gloria de los Santos, Rita Lou Murray, and Letty Y. Garza. They revel in Scott's immortal IVANHOE, a story of chivalry, of knighthood, of cruel tyranny, of romance a story for all ages and all time! Aside from its excellence as a literary composition, what value has SILAS MARNER in the class roo1n? Kaye Eckert poses this question to her panelists, Paula Schaur, Ieannie Simpson, Iudy Tabloert, Ioan Tornhave, Dorothy Vitek, and Mary Lou San Miguel, students in English ll. 21