Academy of Our Lady of Mercy - Lauralton Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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MISSIONS Lauralton's Mission Organization is actively aware of the needs of the Missions and it takes definite steps to alleviate these needs. By contributing monthly dues, every Laural- ton girl is able to provide her bit for the missions. Mission Day is always the organiza- tion's biggest and most profitable project of the year. This year, for the first time, we were able to include in our endeavors our own Mercy Mission, recently established at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Under Sister Elvira's able direction, cancelled stamps are saved, clothing is collected and packed, and financial aid is allocated through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. This society sends an enthusiastic expression of gratitude: How shall I begin! If I should try to tell you how grateful I am, this page would be filled with 'Thank you.' From a missionary in Japan, we learn: Everyone was so happy, and I always ask them to pray for you and our many friends in the United States who are missionaries in keeping us alivef' A priest from a Negro mission in Georgia writes, God is pleased for clothing His little ones and supporting His missions. Your thoughtful contribution is a great help to us, for without your help we could do nothing. We could not resist this gentle appeal from a Maryknoll sister: Our new school under construction in Guatemala is a tremendous undertaking and we need your prayers that God will grant us the grace to plan it wisely, and that somehow the money will be supplied to meet our great financial needs. These are but a few of the many gratifying messages received in acknowledgment of help from the Missions. Together with prayers and sacrifice we are able to serve God through His children, our less fortunate brothers and sisters. MISSION REPRESENTATIVES Geraldine Foucault, Theresa Teodosio, Mona Kamykowski, Gail DeMarco, Barbara Blohm, Andrea Santiello, Sister Elvira, Pat Aurilio, Sue Gibbons, Sue Mullen, Phyllis Yranski, Jane Ziegler, Mar- gee Curley.

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TARCISIAN REPRESENTATIVES Standing Barbara Filosa, Louise Schubba, Eileen Cor- mier Helen Kiesel, Leila Sue Casey, Jane Irving, Joan Meuser Beverly Tanner. Kneeling Lorraine jarusinsky, Dale Garrison, Mar- garet O Neill Gay Ryan, Vennie Mangiaracina, Joan Ellis Marilee Timothy, TARCISIANS Every girl at Lauralton is a member of the League of the Tarcisians. We, as apostles of the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart, strive to bring our school and homes closer to the Heart of Jesus by becoming closer to Him ourselves. Each -day as a part of our morning prayers, we renew our consecration to His Sacred Heart and invoke His aid through aspirations at the beginning of each class. To further extend this devotion, at the beginning of each year all classes enthrone the Sacred Heart in the chapel and in each home room. Each class spends half an hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament once a month. These customs, as well as the monthly renewal of the Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, show that we Lauralton girls are proud to be members of an organization which is so pleasing to His Sacred Heart. We offer Thee our prayer . . . our work . . . our play . . - Tarcisian Hymn 63

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STUDENT COUNCIL Every Monday, in a closed meeting of Lauralton Hall's Student Council, a small group of the Council's Officers and Representatives meet and make the ideas of the stu- dents official. May we have a pencil sharpener? asks one homeroom. Another suggests that the Council try sponsoring some new clubs at school. The group discusses every question that comes up, and upon reaching a decision with the principal, makes it known to the school through weekly reports. So works the Student Government Association behind the scenes, Celebrating its fifth birthday this year, Student Government can look back on five years of achievement, which have earned for it the distinction of becoming one of Lauralton's most important organizations. The Student Council, which consists of four officers and a representative from each homeroom, acts as a mouthpiece for the individual student. Representatives especially, who receive most of the students' requests, must be on their toes for any animadversion. They are faced with such statements as The soap in the dispenser in the lavies is too weakn and Why can't the Student Council give us a longer vacation? Open meetings of the Council are held every month, where each girl has the oppor- tunity of seeing her government in action. Any member of the student body is free at these meetings to offer constructive criticism or solutions for whatever problems may exist in the school. The final open meeting of the year is traditionally devoted to the inauguration of the Student Council Officers for the following year. Activities of the Student Council include the enforcement of the rules found in the Handbook, an annual dance, Cupid's Capers, and an active publicity committee for all school affairs. Here at Lauralton we can say that the Student Government is truly a government of the students, by the students, and, most especially, for the students. STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING Seated: Marianne Dolan, Loretta Bielen, Adele Bevvino, Miss Brynnen, Adviser, Boni Carbone, Joann Salamon, Kay To- ronto. Standing: Jane Novey, Maureen Rear- don, Cathy McGee, Sister M. Bartholo- mew, Moderator, Mary Ann Fishbein, Vice-President, Mary Kay Teal, Presi- dent, Louise Garofalo, Treasurer, Dottie Murray, Secretary, Barbara Sedlock, Mary Ann Audisio, Sue Dolan. OFFICERS Miss Mary Ann Brynnen, Adviser, Sis- ter Mary Bartholomew, Principal, Mary Kay Teal, President, Mary Ann Fish- bein, Vice-President, Dorothy Murray, Secretary, Louise Garofalo, Treasurer.