Mount St Marys Academy - Mercycrest Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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9 1 A fi 5151.9 : LA GUAGES... Parlez-'Vous Francais In preparation for college work the students begin the study of Latin, French. and Spanish. VVith the aid of language records and by daily training in reading comprehension, students re- ceive a fundamental kiiowletlgfe of the vocabulary and graniniar of each of these languages. Becoming: at-quaintetl with the history, geography, and cus- toms pertaining: to these languages en- riches the cultural background of the students. Adele anticipate listening French records. l Probing into the involved ora- tions of Cicero, these Latin III students focus their attention 011 comments made by their instructor Sister Mary Rose. The Spanish II class with Sister Mary Denisita as instructor s e e m to find this per- iod very interest- ing. ' l Judith Pereira, Elaine Urban and Gail Faris with Sister Marx

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T Sister Mary Phyllis R.S.M., B.S. 5 Sister Marie Lorraine R.S.M., B.S. S u s a n Konar- ski asks Maria Rodrigues a n d S u s a n Capone the big questiong X equals? ef! Sister Mary Phyllis, R.S.M. instructs Angela Foley. ' M THEMATICS The Language of Science Many and varied are the fields of mathematics open to the students at Mount Saint Mary Academy. All groups begin with elementary algebra in the freshman year. The college group continues with geome- try, algebra II and in their senior year trigonometry and survey of math. For the future nurses, Sister Marietta, R.S.M., R.N. gives an in- tensive course in nurses' arithmetic. The commercial students take busi- ness arithmetic during their sopho- more year and continue with book- keeping to round out their program. Margot Desjardins begins work on a trig onometric problem as Sister Mary Olga R.S.M. stands by to give any necessary as sistance. N:-u-GN? l -L

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JU IORS... Seated: E. Correira, M. McHugh, N. Turner, S. Pi- mental, M. Pontes, M. Doucet, D. Gadoury. Stand- ing: J. Aguiar, K. Duchemin, M. Gonsalves, N. Souza, L. Correira, J. Winiarski, A. Roy, J. Bouch- ard, C. Gibbons, N. Patenaude, and M. Arruda. A . , we . In September of 1957, the doors of Mount Saint Mary Academy opened to admit the Class of 1961. This class had the distinction of being the largest freshman class to enter Mount Saint Mary Academy. This class will also enjoy the prerogative of being the first senior class to occupy the new building. As juniors these students are preparing for college by intensive courses in chemistry, in- 1535515 .. ...La r-1 ly 3 ' , termediate algebra, Latin, French and Eng- lish and religion. The commercial students spend a good por- tion of the day acquiring the skills of typ- ing, bookkeeping and stenography. These subjects are taken in addition to the second. year of a foreign language, English and re- ligion. 'Nu F l s 4 'Chas Q., , x . 1 , 'N i 5 3 1 ,Q -- A 5 - 1 .- 4- Seated: J. Lapointe, S. Laureanno, J. Murphy, G. M. Powers, C. Walsh, N. Alfonso, M. Powell. Stand- Shea, F. Lambert, M. Christenson, D. Perry, M. L. Galvin, I. Pietraszek, J. Prendergast, M. Wheatley, J so ing: C. Ratcliffe, P. Michaud, C. Howarth, L. Beben, M. Pomfret and S. Heywood.