St Marys Academy - Troubadour Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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.-as i 'GFA Xe, 4-,N Practicing the correct techniques in the art of speech making is Claire Murkert, as Sister Mary Veronice and the sophomore speech class listen ottentively. ,O Practicing correct singing methods taught to them by their director, Sister Mary Agnese, is one of the Freshman chorus classes. 90

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Understanding Cur Government The cause of a maior family problem might be the point ot interest for Louisa Mae Walters, Rita Brzozwy, Kathleen Harrington, and Mary Ann Rothermel, participants in a panel discussion in a sociology class. Our nation's successes and failures as we study them in our history classes, are a guide to us for our role as America's future leaders, when its progress will be in our hands. Reading our Cur- rent Events papers we watch our country gain prestige by equaling Russia's Sputnik with our own U.S. Explorer. Studying the Constitution of America helps us to understand the purpose of our Demo- cratic government. We follow the guidance of our teachers who instill in us the Catholic view- point on historical events. Our country's founders fought to establish for us a free nation. We work here to further our knowledge of well-known past events, to extract from them the pattern for the day when we will be the nation's leaders. We value our history books which hold the story of our nation, proving the greatness with which our young country has risen to a top power in so short a time. ln our sociology class we study the family, the church, and the state. We learn the things which make the wheels of our society go round. We delve into the reasons for keeping peace in this modern world, and for performing the im- portant tasks which will give us our place in society. Helping Sister Mary Elvan set up the machine for the movie, Westward Expansion, are these Amerie can History students, Nancy Lemmer, Iris Brinza, and Cecilia Sobolik.

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Voicing Our Views ln our Speech course we studied the techniques that are a part of the art of correct speaking. Then we put them into practice so that we might develop into poised young women and good con- versationalists. ln our chorus classes we heard the compositions of the old masters and iourneyed to their native lands through movies. We also studied the people, their customs, and folk lore of these countries, and sang some of the folk songs. In religion class we were anxious to learn more about the truths of our faith. Each year we studied a different phase of our religion. As freshmen we studied God and creation. As sopho- mores and iuniors we concentrated on the sacraments. ln our senior year we learned how Mother Church survived in her early days through our Church History course. We also studied the sacrament of Matrimony in detail. Engoymg one of Father Mark J. lyon's oral quizzes is the enthusiastic freshman Religion class 91