St Joseph High School - Spires Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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V7 5 8. wr an Forty-three SJHers participated in Forensic League activities during the 1957-1958 school year. The National Catholic Forensic League is an organization of schools throughout the United States which promotes speech activities in order to develop a more articulate laity. It sponsors competition in debate, extemporaneous speaking, humorous declama tion, dramatic declamation, prepared oratory, original oratory and student congress. The League was organized in the Erie diocese in December 1956. The diocese was divided on a geographic basis into three districts. Saint Joseph High is in the second district. During the first year of operation, nineteen SJI-lers have achieved the twenty-five points requisite for membership. 63

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as Introduced as a Look into the Future, the famed GE House of Magic thrilled our students with various applications of electrical science. Mr. Richard Dougall, narrator of the program, built the script around the keys to progress: materials, techniques, and brain power. By means of clever demonstratioris, he whetted student appetite for further Scientific re- search. 'Ll I 1' S ez

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Durlng Amer1can Educatlon Week the physxcs students presented a forum on the purposes and pro-yects of the Internanonal Geophysmal Year The purpose of the I G Y was to brzng a greater knowledge of many SC18Ht1f1C mysterxes th1s was also the reason for our program earth's crust weather polar regzons and sat ell1tes An an1mated questlomng per1od followed the sxx talks The speakers clar1f1ed such quest1ons as Why 15 the temperature colder xnthe Antarctlc than ln the AI't1C9 What causes currents? What causes t1des'? Of what mater1al are the satelhtes made? These and many other quest1ons of the students were answered by the well mformed panel Art Srruth mtroduced thc IG Y assembly by ex plalmng the 1mportant role wh1ch the sun plays 1n man s l1fe Other speakers were Robert Balcerek M1chael Boyle Robert Clay Barbara Slnger Samuel Oln er Robert Dunrrure, and Terrance Prorok Terry 1n actlon d1scuss1ng the fert1l1ty of the Ocean as a source of food for man s 1n creaslng populatxon Combxne palnt brushes and 1ngenu1ty add Nancy I-Ilnds D1ck Olon and Georg1anne Gehann result posters well done 64 , V r- , . I , N ' , I ' 7 l ' , I Six phases discussed were: the sun, ocean, 1 1 ' , . . . 7