Notre Dame High School - Maryscript Yearbook (Moylan, PA)

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Sister Jeanne Marie demonstrates that the centuries'-old facts that the class studies in the Religion text are still of vital concern in the latest books and magazines in senior English classes. Thermometers are calibrated for their boiling and freezing points by Marie Canavan, Theresa Zalcrzewslu, and Barbara Robinson in science class. Roberta DeNight points out to the National Problems class the difference between credit in a factory, a mill, and a store.

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'Glmmmg in Splendor? After a foreign language, English should have seemed easy to natives of the United States. Bef sieged with yards and yards of vocabulary words in College Board English, not to mention garbled paragraphs, and dangling participles, we weren't too sure at times if we knew English at all. The composer of Teach Me Tonight must have been thinking of N.D.'s math students when he said: Starting with the a, b, e, of it, right down to the X, y, Z, of it, help me solve the mystery of it . . . He seemed to refer to the theorem for which all trig and solid seniors want a corollary. With angles, polygons, and circles still swarming in their minds, they even have geometricized dreams. Pass the CQHQQQ11, please. Dumbfounded? One of our brilliant chemists can tell you that you would simply pass the sugar. Who else can decode those strange looking symbols in the text book? Who else can mix together all sorts of elements and come up with a wonderful concoction-without an explosion? Ven Veto to Mejico! exclaim Patricia Grimes and Marie Ciallella to visitors Marie Renz and Patricia Dougherty who have just stepped from an airplane CU. Twentyfsix

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Urban Cflzveazk af Wbloffyn mlb . . Yifanmfiolzbn, Typing and Office Pmdzbe . School was 'L work and no play, often thought the Commercial Department while Sister Ivlagdalena gave dictation. Taking letters at the rate of 90, 100, or 17.0 words per minute, the girls hoped that hy June they would reach that coveted 140! The surprising thing was that even early in the course the class could read its letters hack! These future secref taries acquired iinesse as they learned to transerihe their notes in type, Some students mastered the intricacies of liling while others heeame adept with electric machines such as thc comptometer, the dictaphone. the electric typewriter. High typing averages merited for many girls the role of typists for The Turret or, possihly, for Maryseript, How important they were in keeping the world ahreast of Notre Dame news! Such practical experience was supplemented hy a rclfgious training whith helped to make them true Christof phers for the husiness world. Qilice Practice and Bookkeeping classes hccame skilled in the techniques of filing and accounting, and the use of husiness machines. The do's and don't's of oflice etiquette were carefully studied. As they prepared for the approaching step into the future. everything, from securing plane reserva' tions to working agrecalwly with other memlwers of an oflice staff, was investigated. Notre Dame commer' cial students have striven always to heeome perfect secretaries. capahle and eflieient. The clicking of typewriter keys can be heard echoing from Room 308 as the Office Practice class brushes up on speed while Elinor Simcox, Nora Lyons, Barbara Magyarik, Marcella Smith, and Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, seem deeply absorbed in work. 'Twentyfeight