St Joseph Academy - Acadean Yearbook (Green Bay, WI)

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Friends greeted, books bought, classes progress . . . study begins. After the ex¬ citement of the first few days of the new year wears off, students settle down to the daily routine of school life, reacquainting themselves with the 8:10 to 3:15 schedule and the home study that follows. The desire to lea rn becomes the common denominator of all SJAers, the peg on which education hangs, the bridge from complacency to enthusiasm. Students continue to strive for their immediate goal . . . graduation, but not without pausing to cheer at a Premontre or Abbot Pennings game, to attend a college play or con¬ cert, to visualize the future ... as one to be shared. and Ann Rosera as they prepare to give an English book report.

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PLANNING A GUIDANCE MEETING Mary Anr Kiley and Barb Mocco. . with Sue Jacqmin, chairman, are Claire Mongin, In advancing from year to year to year, SJAers become acutely conscious of their religion ... its complexity ... its simplicity . . . its significance in their lives. While studying the life of Christ, His doctrine, His tremen¬ dous gifts to them, students be¬ gin especially to realize the im¬ portance of sharing with others. Understanding is aided by Christ ' s successors and the twenty-three sisters who give us a background in Scripture and morals. Thus SJAers emerge as learned young women aware that they must be extensions of Christ within the world. Of particular interest this year was the counseling program. Father Putman handled the spirit¬ ual problems of the girls while Sister Mary Constance gave inval¬ uable help as academic adviser. ' NOW GIRLS, ' THIMK ' . suggests Father Robert Rhyner to his freshman religion class. DECORATING . . . the homeroom bulletin board are Gaylen White, Mary Riley, Judy Sampo and Pat Scannell.