St Marys High School - Lance Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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9 ANYONE who thinks boys arc not expert seamstresses should be around to view the craftsmanship of sophomore and junior boys as they design and construct religion banners from burlap and felt material scraps. SENIOR sex-education day finds Steve York, Irene Davis and Rick Lathrom enjoying a break between lectures and movies with Sr. M. Christeile, guest lecturer. No texts, new texts . . .. Experiments Highlight Religion Classes LESSONS in liturgy blossom into student- planned classroom Masses complete with guitars, folksongs, and dialogue homilies. RELIGION CLASSES AT St. Mary’s com- bine traditional and modern content and methods. Freshmen study Salvation History and concentrate on Old Testament. Sophomores meet Christ and His church in the New Test- ament using HI TIMES as a text. Piloting a new text still in manuscript form, juniors emphasized the relationship between psycho- logical and Christian maturity. A syllabus of current magazine articles, compiled by Sr. M. Loretta and published in LIVING LIGHT introduced seniors to the adult fare they will meet in college. B. CHAMPION and G. Pavela tune up for ju- nior class mass. PRESTON Strosnider lights Advent candle at ceremonies. STUDYING church art prompted this banner design by C. O’Neil. J. FREEMEYER. B. Gronigger act out psy- chological defenses. M. VAN KIRK bap- tizes P. Moran and B. Perrin acts as sponsor. 29

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Movies, Records Dress-up English Classes CONCLUDING a four-day panel in Sr. M. Alice's Junior English class, Diane Knowlton, Marcia Bukaty, Susan Crabbe. and Elizabeth Hill discuss the morality of war and of the nu- clear bombings of Hiroshima and Negasaki by the United States. UNDER THE SUPERVISION ofSrs M. Alice, DePaul, Michon and Theo- dore Saint Mary English students have enjoyed the department's decision to incorporate more class discussions and audio-visual aids. Classes have probed the literary and social implications of books like Hiroshima, movies like Shakespeare’s “Age of Man and records like Chas. Lamb's Disscn- tition of a Roast Pig. DURING the four-day panel on Hiroshima, Juniors Mary Peters, Roberta Marquis, and Vince Totta discuss the morality of dropping the nuclear bomb. SOPHOMORE English students are digging out their own interpretations of Ed- gar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven.” Steve Steffas finagles instructor Sr. M. DePaul in- to helping him with his own interpretation of the poem. FROSH Mary Kay Thompson looks for some prompting from fellow stu- dents during a diagraming quiz. SR. M. MICHON helps June Martin with a composition during third-hour Senior English class. Preston Stronsnider’s not patient enough to wait for Sister; he’s conned Lonna Smith in- to helping with his problem. Could Mike Puhr be enjoying his work. 28

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MOVING in with a tricky word, Mike Lamb racks-up points by stumping his opponents (Sophomores Nancy Lngler, Bonnie Lamb, and Carol Luebbert) in gripping game of Latin “Scrabble”. Skits, Scrabble, GERMAN I class, sponsored by Sr. M. de Paul, enjoy adding the final trimmings to a replica of the original “Tannenbaum” which they decor- ated tor the annual Student Council Christmas Program. DENNIS LATHROM, Anna Mahon, and Mike VanKirk attempt to camouflage the bull (Mike Stefancik) while Kathleen Bennett and Becky Eox continue to write script for the Spanish bull fight.