Mount St Joseph Academy - Lilium Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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,rug I Q . L, ,M 5 Q uf a QZIIQZQJAQZIQS' Mx! wands' Using the right word in speaking and writing is as important to you as using the right carpentry tool was to St. Joseph. Facility in your mother tongue will be a necessity throughout your lives for your ideas are communicated to others with only as much effectiveness as your fluency allows. Through long years of practice, joseph became an expert with his carpenter's tools. Learning to .PK use the tools of English, you study speech during the first and last years and develop your pro- ficiency in grammar and composition throughout all four years. ln journalism courses, you perfect your writing skill so that it can work for you. Thus English becomes a tool for communicating more perfectly with people in the business, edu- cational, and social world.

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Anne Des Jardins points out a well-known quotation from Bartlettls anthology to Ros- alie Zanghi, while other Sophomores Elaine Affrunti and Joanne Sciascia explore inde- pendently other reference books in the library. Notes, cards, workbooks, and reference book - these are materials utilized by English IV. students Jacqueline O'Shea and Mary Catherine Langan as they prepare bibliographies for their term papers. Surprise packages reward champion extra- curricular readers in the Freshman English classes. Mary Esford distributes prizes to Florence Halleck, lrene Geerts, Mary jo Dobmeier, Kathleen Eton, Nancy Esford, and Patricia Michalski, who smilingly un- derscores achievements. Sister St. Patrick launches the Junior excursion into essay writ- ing, prior to the Book Week and Americanism Essay contests. Anx- ious to produce outstanding manu- scripts are Louise Tracy, Barbara Hojnowslti, Margaret O'Donnell, Judith Georger, and Margaret Flower. 1 o '13 4 avr n

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Margaret Lane isn't too anxious to shake hands with Mary Mount St. Joseph, the school's skeleton in the closet. She doesn't bite, says Lucille Gervase as she tries to encourage 3 friendly handshake. Scientists must work in search of the knowledge and truth that is necessary for the welfare of man- kind. You first glimpse the truths of science and mathematics in General Science and Elementary Algebra. ln Health classes, you learn the principles of personal and community well-being. As patience was the powerful lever that raised joseph to the summit of perfection, so must you execute every endeavor in these Helds with the patience and pre- cision that leads to rhe perfection of knowledge. Thus you take a step forward in the service of God and man. Actual demonstration clears up any optical illusion for Geometry students as Sophomores Christine Marcinkiewicz, Valerie Thielman, and Barbara Sherrer illustrate alternate interior angles and congruent triangles.