St Agnes High School - Palm Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Q im s A Sister Helen Cecilia helps chemistry students Mary Marg- aret Ehrstein, Reva McMahon and Mary Lou Miller to see how bases and salts in correct proportions affect common table salt. . . . of SCIENCE which gives us a glimpse of God's intricate plan for living things . . . Study of the sciences is the key to the secrets of Nature. Chemistry. for example, unlocks the door to the greater knowledge of natural products. New understand- ing of nutrition is the result of experiments with vita- mins and calories. Knowledge of life in all its forms and functions helps us to appreciate the marvelous skill and infinite variety of the Creator. Each new discovery advances a little further into the realm of mystery that surrounds Maxis sojourn in the valley of tearsv. f fi w,,,V 2. - 4 Q.: Y 24 The test for starch is performed by general science students Urorn leftl Mary Lou Growney, Judith McCul- lough, Christine Vogt, Linda Henry. The innards of a bullfrog lay open to these biology dissecters Margaret Fancy, Marilyn Van Curran and Shirley Schae- fer lsitzingl and Ann Palermo island- ingl

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the culture o other lands Margaret Tuthill works out the solution of a bus- iness problem on the add- ing machine while Rosalie Lodato and Barbara Prin- ze check with the textbook and Angela Muscarella waits her turn. Students who do not choose to study a foreign language may elect business sub- jects. At present that choice is somewhat limited both by lack of space and equipment, but courses in General Business and Business Arithmetic are offered. Practice in using sim- ple office equipment such as files and adding machines is provided as is experience in hand- ling the sale of merchandise, arranging attrac- tive displays and keeping sales records. Sister Michael Marya gives some advice about saleability of merchandise as Marilyn Adams, Janet Agostinelli and Patricia Wein- hart unpack the religious articles for the sale they conducted as part of their work in Bus- iness Arithmetic class. French crossword puzzles can be even stickier than English ones these Jun- iors find: ffrom leftl Juanita Merkel, Suzanne Shanahan, Roberta Masseau and Frances Sweeney.

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The distillation of water Sister Dorothy Agnes and Beverly Hol- schue are engrossed in an algebraic prob- lem at the board while Inez Paskal, Lor- raine Shortino and Theresa Finks trv to work it out at their seats. Construction of angles and perpendic- ulars occupies Sophomores Rosemary Pa- lermo and Jean Shortino lseatedl and Mary Elizabeth Lang, Barbara Horwath and Beverly Hoffmann. holds the attention of Fresh- men students fcounter clock- wise, from left! Elaine Russo, Patricia Fleming, .lean Wit- zel, Betty McWhorter, Judy Knapp, Margaret Sherwood, Rosalie Lodato, Sister Helen Cecilia, Barbara Marie Smith, Ruth Antinora and Lucia Castronova. . . . and introduces us to MATHEMATICS the Queen of the sciences Living in a world so air-minded and atom- conscious as ours is. makes some acquaint- ance with the mathematical laws that govern these facts of daily life imperative. In St. Agnes, as in most high schools, the core of mathematical understanding is alge- bra, elementary and intermediate. Not much progress can be made without the ability to use the generalizations and symbolism of al- gebra and to express simple relations in the form of equations. Facility in geometric reasoning comes next, and the geometric formulas which are the keys to further think- ing and knowledge.