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

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WHAT ' S THAT — Film strips are helpful and interesting to identify a film strip. Awaiting the outcome are L. to r. to Modem History students. Tim Bailey and John Allore try Judy Gillett, Lynn Lowenthal, Mary Ward, and Judy Wall. FIND IT — In the World Geography class, Mr. Michael Gkekas displays an accurate map of the United States to John Vandenbossche and Edward Grattan. Barbara Bennett and Marion Johnson are engaged in sketching their own map on the board, to help visualize the topography of the U. S. 24

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PREPARATION for a future in any vocation is the theme of the mathematics department. General courses such as business mathematics, algebra, and geometry have a usefulness in any vocation as well as in home life. More advanced courses prepare students for higher education and more specialized fields. These include advanced algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry. Along with mathematical principles, students are taught logic and reasoning through the teachers ' methods of presenting the topic. Recognizing an ur- gent need for an improved program of instruction in secondary mathematics, the department under the super- vision of Sister Jean Baptiste, adopted a new text for algebra II. It is a study of contemporary math from the viewpoint of to- day ' s concepts and tom- orrow ' s needs, challenging student to explore the uni- versal nature of basic concepts and the reasons behind specific procedures. ACCURACY COUNTS — As Sharon Robins plans a geometric design, Florence Rutkowski and Colleen Stuart look over her shoulder, fascinated by her construction. Sister Mary William ' s geometry class enjoy this demonstration of artistic ability as a diversion from proving theorems. LOOKS COMPLICATED — In algebra II class, Jerry Mercurio checks his answer while Sam Nap Bill Mullins graphs his solution of inequalities. olitan seems confused over his solution.

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Social Studies Cead to a Well-informed Society The social studies program offers a variety of subjects: Mod- em History, World Geography, Economics, and American History and Government. The study of these various branches in this field of knowledge should make much difference in the lives of the individual and in the society in which he now lives and will live in the future. A Christian principle that one should derive from these courses is that the student should care about other people. It means developing feelings of love for humanity, caring that humanness is advanced, not retarded by social arrangements and the acts of other individuals and groups. It also means caring about one ' s own integrity and uniqueness. The social studies student is eager to be informed, and is given as much accurate information as possible. Realizing that the future depends upon him, the senior endeavors to see in his study of American History how it helps us to solve difficulties of the present in the light of the past. Economics shows the juniors and seniors the problems that make up our daily living. Needs and production of goods to satisfy these wants, the vital issues of National Income and other economic problems that face the individual and society as a whole are studied by the economist. With modern inventions rapidly advancing, the alert, serious student acquires an awareness of the contemporary political scenes, and a consciousness of global political history in the making. The course in Modem Geography offers him this oppor- tunity. Modem History is geared to the colonial struggles of the Continental nations, especially with the aspects of the English and French countries. This group of subjects points out to our modem youth that social studies is an expanding field of knowledge and that the study of current events must be continuous. The task of the teachers in this field is to help the students develop values, understandings, and the skills needed for a responsible citizenship now and in the future. STOCKS FALL — Mr. Jerry Lynch, Economics instructor, explains how to read the stock reports. Bill Bonnaci helps Sylvia Parrish to follow directions. PASS THE BILL - The students of the senior American History class are performing a mock demon- stration of how a bill be- comes a law in order to better understand the workings of our govern- ment. From left to right: Paula Bilina, Don Kinch, Ray Johnsick, Margaret Ward, Bill Cogley, and Mr. Robert Sheehan, the in- structor, intensely await the outcome. 25