Roncalli High School - Lance Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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Debaters Kathy Piatz and Laura Dickensen watch as experienced debaters Bill Bormes, Jim Crabowska, Pat Whiteside, Linda Val- entine and Mark Rice plan for a future debate tournament. Debaters are under the guidance of Sr. Pam Donelan. Roncalli's Faculty and Students have given away to strange events over the years, but none was as well known, and as often talked about as Sister Shiela Crampton's Engligh Class. For in that room, for all critical eyes to see, was a large brown, rocking chair. Sister told her students that the reason for this was that, if a student should become angry, frustrated, or depressed; the rocking chair would serve to relax them. Also, if speaking in front of the class is the cause of stage fright, sitting in the chair should bring about a relaxation and should serve to ebb the initial fear. But do students use the chair? Of course, frustration in any English class is commonplace. Some have even been known to sit in it for an entire class period. Sr. Sheila also has a large colorful tapestry and a pillow with a smiling face on it. Some students commented: I'm going to make an investment in rocking chairs. (Steve Cleberg) I haven't been to English for a month, I got kicked out. (Dennis Sanders) English this year provided an atmosphere of total disenchantment. (Kevin Maloney) English is a sluff. (Myron Hoffman) All we do in Business English is look at Mrs. Levsen. (Dan Erz) Debate? Oh, 1 did okay I guess. (Mark Rice) I think I'll Skip Religion to work on debate. (John Carlson) I gotta practice. We Got a debate on Saturday in Groton and I can't even remember my stand. (Mark Rice) 21

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ENGLISH - A Chance to Carry on An Old American Tradition This years English curriculum offered something differ- ent, for in all classes, students were given the oppor- tunity to choose their own classes and teachers. This new benefit led to better pupil-teacher relations, more efficient teaching and learning, and better class participation on the part of the students. The most popular courses chosen by students in the senior class was drama. Other choices were: Great Books I May Have Missed, Short Story and American Novelists. Business English was also on the list of English credits. In the past, Roncalli has manifested several important changes in the educational efficiency in the school, but the English department was by far the best ever. It offers so many advantages that its success was not unexpected. Great courses are made, not born, and Roncalli's English Program offers living proof of that theory as it offers freedom to students, unburdens the teachers, and progresses into the future. Students offered further suggestions: Buy more rocking chairs. Frank Sieh Nail the door shut. Joe Sitter An improvement in the English Department would be a comprehensive program on grammar and a film studies program. Dick Molseed Craig Gardener, Freshman, completes the reading assigned by his teacher. Frank Pehoviak, Linda Whiteside, Tom Burgard, and Kevin Dandurand conduct a group discussion with

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✓ - r f Jullie Krieger and Tim Janusz reach for their issue of JMeWS otajj Begins as Room's paperthe Cavalcade . Greenhorns, End as Experts - Learn By Doing. Drama class began the year in rehearsal for the first pro- duction The Clown Who Ran Away which was presented before the public on November 28, 1972 and they also made a special performance on December 4, 1972 at Redfield State school. Characters in the play were: Tom Schumacher, Lori Engler, Tom Roberts, Mary Noble, Bruce Woodard, Tom Rieger, Mary Englehart, Laura Dickenson, Mark Foley, Karl Kirch- asler, Mary Jo Pauley, Jim Johnson, Carol Hartze, Jan Novak, Cheryl Brunson. Other cast members were Kim Labesky, Kathy Kelly, Patti Cleberg, Buffy Herges, Debbie Woods, Jackie Costello, Karla Bormes, Jim Grabowska, Sue Schumacher, Karen Piatz, Dave Janusz, Jerry Braun, Dick Molseed, Jim Walker, and Bill Bormes. The Cavalcade staff was unpleasantly surprised at the be- ginning of the year as they were signed up to Journalism I; when the year began, they were almost immediately put in charge of the school paper The Cavalcade . However after the initial difficulties had terminated, and the staff got down to business, the paper was planned in this way: The editor, whose job it is to accept and discard or edit all copy for the paper was different every week. Necessarily the paper was different from week to week, as far as length of stories and content are concerned, also. Sister Janet Horstman, the journalism teacher at Roncalli, planned the staff in such a way that after each newspaper was on the press, a second staff was already at work on the next issue. Randy Rathert, Junior, reads the book Siddhartha for his Identity Writing Class. 22