Sacred Heart Academy - Angeline Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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W e Increased ur Knowledge Through Staying up nights until 11:30 and missing favorite television programs was the price of taking a Latin course. Freshmen found that Latin was not as hard as their older sisters had predicted but difficult enough. Seniors found that the mention of their taking the fourth year of Latin produced a look of respect from peers and adults. Declensions, conjugations and vocabu- lary had seemed hopeless but proved conquerable. There were no declensions but there were the unavoidable con- jugations in German. After a few months of class SHAers were able to hold dialogues, some memorized, some devised by themselves, with other members of their class. Memorizing sentences every night proved tiresome but helpful in learning the mechanics of sen- tence structure-even good training for UN translators. Culturally-minded frauleins pat up articles and pictares displaying the beauties of Germany. German stadenls, especially jean farrell, enrirh lbeir knowledge of flee language by reading German magazines. exam li

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l Ltr Ability To Communicate With People I rnight he queen, exclaimr Karen Knight af rhe preparer to look for la feue in her cupcake. Therefe Kearny explainr the artirtry of French cooking to her fellow French gourmetf. French Il Jtuclentr alircouer that their clarrer can he a combination of Jtudy and rewarding Jhitr. Offered the choice of four languages, rnost SHAers decided to study French or Spanish. With Pierre and Helene Vincent, French I and II toured Montreal and Paris. Concentrating on the culture of France, third-year etuciianler each taught a chapter on the various provinces. In its second year at SHA French IV at- tracted only one student who read classic French Litera- ture. Verbs, grammar, and conversation filled Spanish I and II. Spanish II also studied the country's art. The .fenoritar of Spanish III spent the year translating a novel. Qhlhlhiaf QQQ Spanixh Jtudentr, Nancy Maurer, Kathy Countin, and Coleen Dougherty, label the invaders of Spain. The rtudentr tune in to the SBC fSpaniJh Broadcarting Company j for practice in lirtening to news. Academics 33

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Latin and German r- ,ay 5 Frefhman Latin .rtatleritf E. j. Fatlell, Mary T. Gatef, and Mercy Prieto exereife their Jkilly with a word game. Sixter Berizartl trief to maneuver her entire Latirz IV elaff into an tmpofetl pirtztre. .,..,.,..-qpe---'H' Denife Tonini reatlf a passage while mem- berf of her elaff follow along. Kommt ihr mit? aflef Debbie Scott. Ger- man I ftttderztf recite their dialogue. 4 X Academics as