Pius X High School - Claves Yearbook (Roseto, PA)

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i | No wonder our senior girls are always so peppy! Calesthentics such as these are bound to make them agile as well as. graceful. Mrs. Gardner’s gym classes are aimed to help them become poised and healthy. Smiling at her handiwork, Laurel Bilodeau listens to Danny Powlette as he explains just what torque is. Caro- line Caporaso attentively follows his interpretation to make sure it’s right. Pat Finelli is doing a precision experi- ment of the movements of force while Donato Capobianco notes the force and distance of the weights on the meter stick. SENIORS Although seniors love to misquote Shakespeare by talking about “physics’ pain” and threatening to “throw physics to the dogs,” we really like our physics class, for Sister manages to put into this dry subject just enough humor to make it interesting, as well as worthwhile. Just so, our Piuster well-being is aided by fast-moving gym classes, for the fine condition of our senior boys can be credited to Mr. Shemanski’s phys- ical education program. Mrs. Gardner’s gym classes, planned for best physical fitness, are a must for all senior girls.

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ahr a Seniors, Anthony Romano, Judy Suprys, David Paolini, Mary Jo DeRea, and Connie Sullivan make use of the map thoughtfully provided by the Senior Scholastic Press. “Where’s North Fourth Street?” quips Connie. As Father Loeper returns assignments to Rosemarie Guida, Don Giaquinto, and Sharon Cotturo, Anthony Liberto smiles over a comment written across Anthony Mondello’s paper. Father’s opened Religion book means a quiz on last night’s homework! oem Ronnie DeNadai grins as Rosemary Valletta gives a rather complicated explanation of de- creasing trigonometric functions. Mathema- ticians, Daniel Fiorot and Nancy Schultz, listen carefully so as to catch every precious word, while Carol Broglio looks at Sister Arsenia, silently asking if his diagram is correct. To say that we seniors have a schedule crammed with studies, projects, book reports, and term papers is really putting it mildly! It seems as if we've been plugging away at English IV, Reli- gion IV, and P.A.D. forever and a day. And besides, don’t forget the electives! Students with college in mind take Trigonometry, Physics, and Spanish; commercial-minded seniors select Book- keeping, Stenography, and Typing.

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Stenographers Mary Jo DeRea, Sandra Falcone, Darlene Rossigno, Francine Faraldo, and Margaret Orlando prove that brief forms are the essence of a hundred and twenty words. Ronald Crafa, Johanna Sylvester, Thomas Haring, Andrea Massi, and Janice Reto aim for sixty words a minute. Impossible as it sounds, our lively senior typists achieve, and even exceed, that finger-breaking standard! As part of office practice, Marietta Boscaino puts her filing knowledge to best use, while Carla Giovanni gets an accurate total on the adding machine: Cecilia Cascioli and Veronica DeRea efficiently operate the duplicator. Keys tap-tap, bells ring, carriages slide, as our senior typists try for sixty words a minute on modern Remington typewriters. It’s not so easy as it seems though as our oldest Piusters can readily tell you. Only practice,. practice, practice, can make those limber fingers fly at a speedy rate. Speed, accuracy, and a hundred and twenty words a minute are the goals of our senior stenog- raphers as they fill page after page in those mysterious steno pads. Business-minded Piusters have a real work- ing knowledge of office procedure, thanks to our Commercial instructor, Sister Maria Bona. Take the Lead ...