Serie S006 - School Activities series

• Soportes múltiples

4 cm of textual records
9 photographs : b&w

This series contains material related to Sister Marie Angela Aubert’s involvement in high schools and education. She spent much of her life working as a teacher at various institutions. Much of the material present here concerns her involvement with the Catholic Central High School (CCH) Business Club, the Junior Achievement Program at O'Leary High School, and her articles on education. Sister Marie Angela Aubert taught at Catholic Central High School in London, Ontario and supervised the CCH Business Club. The club’s primary focus was doing typing for students, teachers, and school publications like the Knightrider Magazine and the yearbook. The club was also involved in fundraising activities and arranged for speakers to come to the school and give talks about business, education, and employer expectations. Material in this series related to the CCH Business Club’s includes the CCH Business Club’s newsletters, invitations, memorandums, member lists, a goal list, and an article about the club written by Sister Marie Angela Aubert. Sister Marie Angela taught business and religion at O'Leary High School in Edmonton, Alberta and there she involved the grade 12 Business Management class in the Junior Achievement Program, a program aimed at teaching youth entrepreneurship and business skills. As part of the program, students developed companies to promote and operate. The students created Gemco, which sold handmade jewelry, and J. A. Enterprise, which sold personalized mugs. Material related to the Junior Achievement Program includes material from displays, correspondence, weekly sales summaries, photographs, and news clippings of coverage of the program and advertisements. There are also invitations to banquets, awards lists, and thank-you notes from Sister Marie Angela's time at these schools. This series also includes five educational serial publications with articles written by Sister Marie Angela. There are four issues of Contact (November/December, 1977; March/April, 1979; January/February, 1980; and November/December, 1981), which was a quarterly service publication of Gage Education Publishing, Ltd. sent free of charge to all business and economics teachers in Canada. Sister Marie Angela's articles are “A New Method of Teaching Introductory Accounting,” “Producing Class Magazine Is Exciting Typing Motivation,” “Creativity Should Be Encouraged, Not Stifled,” and “Is it “IE” or “EI? ALICE” Helps!” Also in this series is Synoptic, Spring 1979, Vol. XIX, No. 2, a publication of the Business Education Council of Alberta Teachers’ Association which features Sister Marie Angela’s article “Involvement in Toastmistress Club Enhances Communications Teaching.”