Notre Dame High School - En Dee Cue Yearbook (Quincy, IL)

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Manual Training. Instruction is given in the care and use of common hand tools and the fundamentals of shaping, assembling, and finishing wood. The design of projects and the reading of blue prints are an important part of the course. During the second semester instruction is given in the use of power tools. This large group of senior girls is taking the Religion class quite seriously. After Father Watson's thorough instruction on Liturgy, the Pope's Encyclicals, Marriage, Vocations, and other important topics, they feel that they ought to be able to assume future responsibilities. The Physics laboratory group is performing an experiment on the measure- ment of electric currents. Shorthand ll. This class is straining every nerve to pass its IOO-word tran- scription test before the strenuous social activities of these graduates begin.

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General Business. Basic business education is becoming more of a necessity each year as con- sumer-retailer relations expand. The Art Class has iust completed a project in manuscript writing and illumination. The subiects were the Ave Maria and the Pater Noster which were mounted and framed. Solid Geometry. The introductory study leading up to solids deals with planes, perpendiculars and parallels to planes, dihedral angles and polyhedral angles. The first solid studied is the prism-a figure bounded by two parallel planes as bases and a prismatic surface. Clothing Class. Girls may come and girls may go-but styles go on forever as the Clothing class demonstrates. With graduation close at hand-graduation gowns are in order as well as simpler frocks for afternoon wear.

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The pages were all turned to Chapter XVIII Reforming the Delinquent in the text. The recent Kefauver Investigation Committee met with favorable and lengthy comment by the Sociology students. From Our Times another discussion topic pertaining to Senate investigating committee, entitled More Federal Power over Criminals, was likewise recognized and debated thoroughly. Bookkeeping students, having completed their first practice set involving simple bookkeeping procedures, are now tackling the more complicated problems of reserve and accruals. Future Homemakers of N.D. This Foods Class are exercising their art at baking cookies. But vitamins and calories receive their share of study in preparing well-balanced meals for healthy minds and healthy bodies. Typing I. These students are getting office experience in a typing pool of the National Company. They spend a week with each department of the company becoming acquainted with the various letter forms and business papers used in these departments.