Mother of Mercy High School - Mercywood Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Necessary Tools For Their Futures Now Itas Sister Agncsk turn to recite her memorized quote from Shakespeare. To help the girls improve their reading skill. Sn Julian uses her Speed RearL jackson, Cathy Clausing, Colleen De jam, Elaine Bielefeld, Pat Callahan, ing Projector, Reading the Hashes of words on the board are sophomores Pam and Mary ROSE Linz.

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English C Zasses Provide S tudents With The Christmas tree couldnil be brighter than Sister Doreenis English students - could it? Miss Barrett coaches her illustrious seniors, Elaine Fisher, Kathy Essen, and Betty Heidkamp on the characteristics of neo-classicism, I $ i a In connection with the English courses three other subjects are offered to Mercians, world literature and creative writing to juniors and seniors, reading to freshmen and sophomores. This year, under the instruction of Miss Carol Kirstein, the world litera- ture Class studied European authors from Goethe t0 Ibsen, and then stressed Twentieth Century writ- ers. Also taken in the class was Leo Tolstoy7s War and Peace. John Macyis The Story 0fthe World Literature was used as a textbook to give the girls even more complete knowledge of various writings. In Sisterjulianis reading course, speed, and in- crease of vocabulary, and better reading habits are emphasized. The Speed Reading Projector aids Sis- ter in helping the girls increase their reading words per minute. Better expression of oneis self in prose and poetry is the main aim of Sister Aloyscfs crea- tive writing class. It is by this class that the literary annual is edited. The Spectrum, one of Mercy- woodis sister publications, was ,pfib' hed fog: the second time this year. g; 14d ,i , 4:2- ; Ja

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Evaluations, Calculations, Estimation: After lwn hours and twenty-thrce and nneehalf minutes of Figuring. Marv Arm Bennett has decided to put nHilhut problem until mmurrmv. While Bcv Klug does all the work, Mrs. Scibel and Denise Srhinner act as supervisors, offering some helpful suggestions. 22 Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid, Thales, and Plato all speak in a language oftheir own. Their commuw nication is through mathematics. Mercians are learning to speak this language by the study of Al- gebra I and II, plane, solid, and analytic geometry, and trigonometry Freshmen enter into this field with Algebra I. First year students, under the in- struction of Sister Barbarann, hear of the equation for the first time and learn to understand its numern ous and complicated functions. Sophomores learn how true Plato was when he said, uGod eternally geometrizesfl Memorization 0f theorems and pos- tulates is stressed by geometry teachers, Mrs. Seibel and Sister Francine, Juniors go further into the study of exponents, discovering logarithms for the first time. Teaching this course are math scholars, Sisters Domitilla and Mrs. Seibel. For the Hrls who wish to advance even more in the mathematics Held, trigonometry is offered to the seniors. Newer books this year bring this modern held even more up-to- date. One of the pmjerts 0f the National Honor Sneiety is tutoring, Senior Mary Ann Klnpp helps freshmen Patricia chze. Tame Carr. and Elaine Wuod in the morning before school with Algebra I.