St Stephens Academy - Academician Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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WHICH WAY DID HE GO? Students of Virgil trace the route of Aeneas from Troy to Carthage. Third and fourth year Latin students, William Kearns, Sharon Helmrich, and Roberta Wedge study the map in order to better visualize the travels of Aeneas. OF THEE I SING — Latin II students find singing an enjoyable way of learning a language. As George Stebbings points out the melody, Pamela Dazer and Alma Ann Bleau sing the Latin version of “America”. This interruption from Caesar’s campaigns provides variety.

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Romance languages Intrigue Our linguists This year a new department in the language field was opened. French was added to the curriculum. The study of first year French was made available to all students. Besides learning basic grammar, students of French used records, sang songs, conversed and read stories in French to further their knowledge of the foreign language. Each month, the students read and enjoyed their copy of “La Croisade” a French paper. Latin is a subject in which direct contact is made with the classical past from which sprang our civilization and without which, that civilization cannot be understood. Latin answers many of our needs. It serves as an aid in our English classes for derivation of many words; it helps us to understand much of the background of early Roman history; and above all, it aids us to appreciate the liturgy of the Church. “REPETEZ APRES MOI” - Mary Piechowiak directs the first aid of a French record. A1 Gobeyn is adjusting the record for year French class in practicing distinct pronunciation with the next phrase as Jim Britz gazes intently at his book. 18

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HOMER — reveals secrets of anatomy to the health class as Lana Bowers, Emil and Nick Toodzio watch Mr. Lynch remove a portion of the lung from the plastic model. Curriculum Health as a subject of the high school curriculum is of prime impor- tance. Scientific research in recent years has so increased medical knowledge that today everyone en- joys health benefits unheard of in previous generations. The student gains an intelligent understanding of the human body and mind in order to maintain good health and at the same time is to be imbued with a desire to achieve the highest de- gree of physical and mental fitness. Biology is the study of life — plant life, animal life, and the life of human beings. Those studying biology are led into complex soc- ieties, where plants and animals live in vital relationship with each other. They study the life of the forest and the ocean depths. The biologists explore miniature worlds where animals no larger than a pinhead feed on still smaller forms of life. LET’S GO FISHING’ Michael Zwolinski attempts in the Biology Lab. Left to right: David Osgood, to capture one of the tropical fish from the aquarium Barb Tate, Kitty Cogley, and Sister Johnita look on. 20