Ramona Convent Secondary High School - Copa Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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. Amateur seamstresses are given the opportunity to develop their creativity and ability through clothing classes. These girls spend many hours making their own suits and dresses which they model in the annual spring fashion show. During one of the daily P.E. classes, Miss Paterra holds the whistle while everyone wonders-is it fair or foul? All attention is given to Mrs. Washburn as she points out the proper cut of the material.

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Business majors receive explicit instructions on how to run the ofhce machinery properly. The commercial arts course enables college prepar- atory students as well as business majors to acquire Jroficienc ' in t ' in shorthand record kee min and 5 5 5 a g office practice. Besides the practical application of business techni ues irls learn the im ortance of v g good grooming and manners in their future careers. Approvingly, Sister watches the nimble fingers of a typing student. Sister Mary Candida gives dic- tation to students in both Ste- nography I and II. The im- portance of efhciency through practice is constantly stressed in all business courses. SIUIIHK FROM HISSDONSIBILITV M.. 5 4 ' is l U wnconz .5 5

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lwpwwuib ofytlw U Geometry students seem to have all the answers to Mrs. Quinn's questions. Sister M. Virgilius helps in solving the intriguing problems which the slide rule presents to Algebra Il students. With the help of Sister M. Annunciata, an Algebra I student attempts to solve an equation. At some time in every girl's studies at Ramona, she travels down the trail of the unknowns and comes to the crossroads of the X's and Y's. The road is difficult at times, with many acute angles and square roots to contend with. Over the slopes of graphs and through the woods of slide rules she goes, forging on until she comes to the end of her trail and fondly bids farewell to the world of numbers, for a short time at least.