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

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Paulite 'timetrippers' commute through intriguing literar ages Challenging, stimulating . . . Sophocles to Huxley - no generation gap exists in the St. Paul panorama of English. On an odyssey into the past, seniors plunge into romantic visions of Don Quixote and the depths of Dante's Inferno. Spare timet' activities pit upperclass- men against time with bouts with Scholastic Writing Contest articles and Sr. Marie Dorothy's study guides. Juniors, traveling the Well-Worn route back into the merry old England of Arthurian Legend, explore the allegory of the Round Table and rollicking episodes of the Canterbury Tales. Cinematographic spectacular, 2001: A Space Odyssey, adds an enjoyable, thought-pro- voking dimension to the eleventh-graders' vicious cir- cle of read novel-take test-write paper . Sophomores cross continents to early America to unravel the labyrinthian mysteries of Hawthorne's 'dra- mas of human guilt, while freshmen invade the Globe Theatre of textbooks to investigate Shakespeare. Supplied with a stack of novels and essays, Paulite Htimetrippersn commute from Sophoclean drama fes- tivals to Elizabethan courts to a brave new world Via the intriguing time machine of literature.

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l Students hold campaign rall , mock election Coming alive . . . St. Paul's now generationu is being jarred into the realization that they are inheriting a problem world they never made . An intriguing avenue for evaluation of histor- ical events - future references in their World building endeavors - is found in social science. Juniors explore a new angle of U.S. History via tapes on the Negro Heritage. Developments in Vietnam, and in the civil rights warn figure importantly in class discussions as history in the making . Whipping up their own involvement-ism , Paulites converge on Detroit's Republican headquarters to arrange a Speakiqg engagement at St. Paul with Governor George Romney and congressional candidate Mr. Peter O'Rourke. Who says you have to be twenty-one to vote? Stu- dents swing into the slam-bang spirit of the 1968 presi- dential campaign with a mock election. Voting booths, which stand dubiously in the All-Purpose room, registra- tion desks, and official ballots contribute to an authentic governmental setting. Senior campaigners do their own thing for their candidate. Party rallying songs, wall-to-wall posters, a Wallace poem, and student speeches create a down to the wire political battle until election returns reveal that Humphrey's was the one . By being actively involved and concerned with civic affairs, Paulites are afforded the consolation that they are Uinheriting a world they can and will changeu. 2.7

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ABOVE LEFT: After following Odysseus through seven years of homeward struggle, Mike Schwartz ponders the difficulties of his own Hlist of things to do in spare time . FAR LEFT: Mr. McGrath graphically expounds on the possible character motivations in the Scarlet Letter for a sophomore class. CENTER LEFT: A senior's interpretation of a passage from the Iliad receives Sister Marie D0rothy's close attention. LEFT: English doesn't have to be a dull affair as Sister Eileen Therese aflirms in her reaction to a freshman's humorous comments on an elusive theme. ABOVE: Jim Locke's explanation of the technicalities of Cousteau's undersea breathing apparatus adds a fascinating angle to Cave Diving for Jan Soave and Sharon Biermann. 29