St Marys Academy - Troubadour Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Browsing through a few of the magazines are these Clothing students, Elizabeth Kleibor, Rosa Musquiz, and Eileen Horbinski as they try to find a suitable pattern for their next project. Homemakers in the Making l00king over some of the entries of the gift-wrapping contest are Judith Pawlowski, Sister Mary Bonaventure, Clothing teacher, Marie Opalo, and Sharon Vruk. 80

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As the obiective of the business course of our school is to prepare girls for a successful life in the world of business, we were taught all phases of office work with the aid of many modern machines. As iuniors we came face to face with a typewriter with that stick- ing tabulator key or the back space key that wouldn't back space, a shorthand book which looked much like Greek, and a General Business book full of dif- ficult problems to be solved. lntrigued with shorthand are Juniors Nancy Barbian, Nancy Lemmer, and Kathleen Martin, as Sister Mary Jose reviews the day's lesson. We seniors who wished to continue our business course entered typing ll, shorthand ll, comptometry and bookkeeping classes. We performed actual work on transcribing, duplicating, and calculating machines. Equipped with the knowl- edge of these machines we have been enabled to enter the business world or perhaps to go on to further our business education. Along with business classes many little problems confronted us as running out of typing paper before that important l0-minute timing, forgetting envelopes needed for addressing, doing the wrong page for General Business homework, and not making enough spaces on the electric typewriter. These added a bit of misery to our day. But with Sister's many helpful suggestions our business world soon ran smoothly again. Where does this belong? , queries Rebecca Gonzales of Sister Mary lourdette, as Sister explains the techniques of operating the mimeograph machine to her and Lois Brylmczynski. 'Suv'

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At the beginning of our freshman year the art of good homemaking be- came a part of us. ln our foods classes we learned the importance of a bal- anced diet. Regulating the stoves in the Home Ec lab became one of our daily routines. We prepared breads, meat, pastries, and candy. We also planned menus for the Father- Daughter Banquet, Sister Florence's Name Day, Guild parties, and other all-school affairs. Paiamas, skirts, and blouses were among our first projects in the Cloth- ing l classes. Paiamas seemed to be more trying than the others, especially when we sewed the two legs together. We progressed some in our second year and attempted dresses, suits, iumpers, and even formals. ln the Spring Style Show we mod- eled our creations before the whole student body with a feeling of appre- hension, but also with pride because we felt that we had accomplished something during the year. Assisting Theresa Wrecza as she meas- ures out the ingredients for home-made bread is Sister Mary Ulric, Home Eco- nomics instructor. Home Economics officers: Mary Markert, Vice President, Sister Mary Ulric, Advisor, Mary Ellen Burger President, Barbara Sikora, Secretary, and Mary Ann Oman, Treasurer, comment on the various designs ot the greeting cards displayed in the Home Economics laboratory.