St Paul High School - Paulite Yearbook (Grosse Pointe Farms, MI)

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eff ABOVE: Three-dimensional figures are es- sential elements of Mrs. Izydorek's teaching technique. ABOVE RIGHT: 4'You've got to think these problems out by yourself, otherwise youlll he rlefieientp. Sr. Jane Ellen makes her rule of thumb become second nature to progress- ing mathematicians. BELOVV RIGHT: If you concentrate long enough, you have to come to some solution . Margaret Schulte puzzles over some perplex- ing polygons. CENTER RIGHT: Linda Hollerbach and Annette DiGiovanni evaluate another stu- dentls board work. FAR RIGHT: Freshman Gerry Totzke ex- periences the triumph fand reliefl of solving a mind muddlingll problem in set 22

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Questions, probes, 'activism' Religion 1969 Student sentiments: Everything's changing . . . ! Understand . . . what? Believe . . . in whom? Authority . . . why? The Religious Education department of St. Paul concentrates efforts on effecting student activism in formulating Christian convictions. Researching Old Testament views on yesterday's dilemmas and investigating today's upheavals in Hi- Times, freshmen reach out to begin piecing together the spiritual puzzle of self-identity and maturity. Soph- omores and juniors take hold on this foundation and further jiggle the puzzle parts into place through their analysis of New Testament guidelines and Church History. Seniors fit more key parts into the jigsaw through discussion and evaluation of authority, con- science, and Pope Paul's encyclical, Humanae Vitae. The Bible, Man in the Modern World, or other texts don't pretend to answer questions of nuclear war, crime, discrimination, or birth control, but they do pre- sent human ideas and directions for application today. With the help of mass media, thinking, feeling, encoutering Paulites come to realize that living means understanding, believing in, and experiencing the full- ness of every activity from the battle with the books to psychedelic social happenings .

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Math: experiences in 'mind expansion' Math: mind-expander or confusion-creator? The Riddle of 'Rithmetic , seeming an indistin- guishable maze of cryptic intellectual processes, challenges Paulites to swim hard in the current of scientific advancements. It's not so important what answer you get, as long as you can explain how you got it. Sr. Jane Ellen's axiom guides freshmen on a rugged trek through set theory and factoring. One picture is worth hours of explainingf' In their tangle with tangents and polygonal prop- erties, sophomores discover that they get by with a little help from Mrs. Izydorek's three- dimensional geometric figures. It is essential to be able to think out prob- lems independently. Functions and progressions actually prove solvable to Sr. Jane Ellen's junior and senior mathematicians when willpower, con- centration, and slowly acquired logic usurp the attraction of a blaring TV. The level of investigation matters little when, in the end, brain-produce is evident: a Paulite emerges thinking logically, evaluating and com- puting independently.