Our Lady of Grace Academy - Mediatrix Yearbook (Beech Grove, IN)

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Practice Makes Perfect Errors are intolerable in the business world. Therefore the main objective for business majors at Grace is accuracy (to the point of perfection), then speed. Shorthand, typing, bookkeeping, business math and English make up the curriculum. The training is beneficial in more ways than one. For some, it will be a means of livelihood. For others it may be a supplemental income. Still others may use it merely to keep a checkbook balanced. Maureen O ' Connor pauses between dictations in shorthand. Angle Frazee follows the rules of a good typist. Seniors in business math prove to be busy with computations.

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Past and Present Worlds Affect Changing Society Names and dates seemed, for years, for an interesting history, government to be the only important aspect in the or economics class, study of history. Today, we have A discussion of current happenings become more concerned with how the can activate a class to make it interest- present is shaped by the past. ing and beneficial. Such a manner of teaching provides Mr. Hammerle stresses another histori- cal fact as questions arise. Juniors learn more of their country ' s history. Carol Sparks hesitates as she looks for something in Europe.

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Technological Advances Begin Here The technology of tomorrow begins with learning the basics of science today. The realms of science and math are unending and ever changing. In biology classes, freshmen and sophomores learned about the func- tions of plants and animals. Chemistry and advanced biology were available for the science oriented student. Pre-algebra, algebra I and II, geome- try and trigonometry provided the mathematical footwork for the science classes. Anne McGuire and Nettie Deckard learn that precision is the key to their experiment. Chemistry students ponder about the correct prcKedure to use. Biology I has their day with the earth- worm.