Academy of the Sacred Heart - Sacre Coeur Yearbook (Hoboken, NJ)

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SENIORS Stately Senuors' Brulluant scholars' Head class' Well thats enough malarkey let s get down to brass tacks Welcome addutuons to our class were Suster Gabruel Therese moder ator who left the sunny sands of Long Branch just to teach us and Jeannue Gallagher who proved to be our gaun and St Al s loss Both entered unto the spurut of thungs wuth great vum and vugor Our class offucers had been elected prevuously but the best was yet to come when at the furst Scuence Club meetung twenty gurls turned un suxty votes for offucers They also turned un two dollars for breakage fee, whuch Marulyn McAnerney wull be unable to col lect at the end of the year and mught possubly have to compensate The thurd week of school was just gettung under way when we started on our well paved road of mustakes For example how could those fuve gurls have had theur puctures taken by the wrong photographer? Tryouts for our play and rehearsals proved to be great fun leven though Maruta Anne Dottue and Mac had the scenery fall on theml The auduence was enraptured by the per formance of Luttle Women Fortunately the confusuon prevalent on the stage was vusuble only to the players Unsought comedy was untfoduced unto the death scene when Aluce Bloom sauntered through the French wundouws not realuzung that the door was only a few unches away Twun huts of the evenung were Aluce Andrukutus and Joan Manuno who made very dash ung suutors Joan Poggu Joan Cella Manta Offurady and Dorothy O Bruen were the Luttle Women but all of us gave a truly stupendous explout of our talents After the play another surpruse was un store for us The school movue projector had ar ruved and we spent many hulafruous hours vuewung the stars of today un but parts of yesterday Not that the movues were ancient that us We came un touch wuth the st e once more when Chrustuna Burke gave her best un the Holy Name Contest The Catholuc ay of Lufe Followung our Chrustmas party held un the Lubrary amud the hularuty and the happy go lucky sensatuon whuch usually accompanues the furst respute of the year murth was extrava gently dustrubuted by us the Senuof Class and our well wlshers the faculty Wull we ever learn to wuggle our toes luke Suster Joseph Dolores un her rendutuon of Shortnun Bread l We wush we could go on Smulun Through Chernustry as Suster Ambrose dud to the melody of the same name The gurls un the other classes were lookung forward to Chrustmas whule the bug day for the Senuors came four days later Although ut was raunung ut fauled to dampen our spuruts when on the arm of our best beau and un the latest creatuons we stepped out of our cars and unto the Cotulluon Room of the Hotel Puerre The musuc was duvune and there wasn t a gurl who dudn t have a cunderella evenung After thus fruvoluty the thought of havung to come back to school after havung a mar velous vacatuon was traguc A pleasant unterlude to all thus braun rackung work of last munute crammung for the pop ular you know what was a senuor play on Communusm whuch we presented durung a Sodaluty meetung lt was meant to be a dramahc but turrued out to be a comedy wuth Kathleen tryung un vaun to pronounce Madame Kasenkuna and then puttung the Russuans behund the orange unstead of the uron curtaun The Seton Forensuc League agaun started a new pet expressuon Let s Charter a Bus Jeanne Gallagher excelled herself un oratory Atheustuc Communusm was much clearer to all who heard her Dotty O Bruen proved to be an able alternate March blustered un luke a luon unauguratung our Sprung Festuval of plays and Aprul went out luke a lamb takung wuth ut the memory of that truumphant evenung and the completuon of our tradutuonal retreat Thus year also occasioned the twentueth annuversary of our beloved Suster Ruta Agnes Say lt Wuth Musuc as the theme for Our concert wuth Dorothy O Bruen as dancer and Kathleen Repetto as soloust The curtauns not only closed on our unspurung performance but also on our last appearance for the Academy No debutante ever experuences the whurl of partues that we enjoyed before our farewell On the more stayed sude of our actuvutues we were honored by a testumonual dunner and Com munuon Breakfast Walkung under the unspurung arch of roses we realuzed that these four years spent at the Academy of the Sacred Heart were truly the best years of our luves We now bud farewell to these happuest years Susters and schoolmates classes and classrooms all are of the past only One remauns ever present He has blessed us wuth all the lught and grace of these joy ful four years After lufe s journey may we all meet agaun un Hus Sacred Heart' 35 . . . 1 1 . . . , T . , ' 1 1 1 . , . . . . . - 1 I . , . . 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JUNIORS Upperclassmenl What a sensatlonl We were doubly pleased for our Freshman Class moderator Sister Ruth Clare was now prrncupal of the Academy French came In to keep us company brrngang wuth It Sister Grace de Lourdes Thus was the year that our basketball team was formed We played our one and only game score 56 I9 las you Shylocks should have surmused we dldnt ment the 56 polntsll That was all there wasnt anymore as far as other schools were concerned We were rntra school champs though If that made up for It Basketballs weren t the only thang we bounced Practrcung Bombs Away with coke bottles on the dumbwanter durlng one of our more sedate luncheons Improved our accuracy Studies and plenty of homework were always headaches Our French class was a great concern to us Embarrassment was widespread when we translated horse back rldlng as to take a walk with a horse lldeal companronshup we must say l The splrntual side of us showed through In our portrayal of the Life of Sister Mlrlam Teresa an which the curtarn opened and closed ten tnmes although rt was only a one act play Name and fame spread to the Academy when Joan Poggu walked off with top honors ln the Seton Forensrc League Contest and came home with a beautiful plaque whrch shall forever proclaim the preemlnence of our English Department The Sensor play proved a great success and ofcourse our rendltlon of Because You re You and ln Old New York were tremendous assets to the productuon Christmas was upon us and It couldn t be complete without one of our colossal stage offerings Geraldine Scott: dlsplayed her pranlstrc talents by accompanylng our drama wlth the melody Beautiful Lady and thus Mama Lnghts a Candle was launched In the bug hall for the beneflt of the school Never to be forgotten was the part where Dotty proceeded to light the candles without matches However Marffar O Grady saved the day by crawling out on the stage with the llttle fare makers between her teeth' As to the classroom somethlng new had beffm added to our tree angel harr Eileen provided her own evergreen a pine bougls hanging oufof the flag holder ln the course of overall decorating the S64 question was raised Who tore down my posters? One of the many thungs we learned was not to put lrpstsck on In school At the time of our lesson a solutron of lye water was to ourtender mouths at :nk eradlcator IS to a test paper Far from berng soured on artrfucral ands to beauty, we 564' Mt In our best bnbs and tuckers to Sarnt Peter s Church for the weddrng of E eahor s bftbther W1 were all rnvrted and laying siege to the reception hall we had ourselva a thigh meld time mcomplrance with the wlshes of our charmnng host and hostess These happenrngs were only uncudentgl for rt Wa leam of newly acquired class rings on our fingers that really set gif? hw? 5 7 mpln 5 Our school publucatlon the Spagwryght was Ee blgge 'li n of the year slnce lt was the first school paper that the Academy? ml Pa!!lff'W5'd IH years to the pataence and the generosity of Sister Ruth Clare and Slster Alexandrlne we again p bvedlitrhat our merry group would always turn up with the best In the Sprrng the Bunny Hop was given by us In St Peter s Hall graciously gnven by the prrnce of prlests Father Vuncent J Hart SJ The response was overwhelming and the proceeds were sent to the massrons Seat changing was a common occurence whale we remembered to keep our drawers shut an rmperatrve rule as someone could easnly trap on the way down the arsle and break a kneecap May arrived and our annual concert was apprecuatlvely received Our toast of the eve nrng was Victor Herbert and some of hrs most beautiful melodies wnnged theur way unto the hearts of the auduence that evening Including the ltallan Street Song by Kathleen Repetto Along came June and at the Class Day given rn honor of the Sensors we crred almost as hard as they drd As we bud sad adreu to the gurls unto whose shoes we were about to step our vonces were ransed ln such tear jerking songs as Haul to Thee Our Alma Mater and the Whrffenpoof Song wrth lyrrcs to flt the mood Nevertheless between last sobs we managed to grve Sister Ruth Clare a combination whup and whistle with which to keep us her future seniors rn lane Then once again graduation day was upon us 34 . . I 1 1 - I . . l . , . . I 1 . 1 - - - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 - - 1 1 1 1 - - - 1 1 . . . . , , . . . . , , . . . . . , . - - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - Q f , . . 1 K f ' . 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 - - - 1 1 - - 1 . I . I kr , 1:r5L,,j: I I I I ' , f. Ji I I If ll ' f 3' 5 I WV 5 I l ' f 7 in , ' - - - 11 I - II 1 , 1 K- A - r ,g A l J 1 J QQ . . ,-wwf' 'rf fl an . .af 2 Q - ' X L 'Q . . 1 1 are . . . . I W I , ' ' , l . wa, WV , . r . I . , , , , . . 1 . . - 1 , . I . . 1 1 1 . . . . , , . 1 1 1 1 ' - I I - 1 1 - - . . . . . , , . 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - - - 1 - 1 1 1 1 - I 1 '

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E V1-svvfv J ,rain I I W I rw MQ Class Prophecy NCE out of my taxI I made my way through the dense crowds Into the lobby of the MaIestIc Theater where I was to wltness the fIrst showIng on Broadway of CarnIvaI the latest muslcal comedy wrItten by the well known playwrIght Marne Kudera How surprIsed I was to see that my old classmate Ann Dono van the fIrst lady of the soclal set recognIzed me after all these years' Ann asked me to IoIn her at a party gIven after the show by New York s Number I Debutante Anne Talty After gratefully acceptIng I settled down to enjoy myself You can well ImagIne the astonIshed look on my face to fInd Joan PoggI a second Sarah Bernhardt co starrIng wIth AIIce Bloom even more amazed to see Dorothy O BrIen a modern Terpshncere also under the same bIllIng Durlng IntermIssIon I spoke to ChrIstIna Burke edItor In Chlef of the New York TImes who Informed me that she was also goIng to the party WhIIe Walflng for the second curtaIn I notIced that MarIta O Grady had desIgned all the costumes for the play In the course of the second IntermIssIon I met EIleen Murphy and AlIce Andru kItIs and was later Informed that EIIeen was In town for the Demo CFBIIC ConventIon and was New Jersey s candIdate for Congress Aluce I knew was AmerIca s leadIng woman executIve lmmedIately after the funale MarIe the authoress Introduced a very famous ceIebrIty Kathleen Repetto star of the ChIcago Theater of the AIr After leavlng the show I saw Marulyn McAnerney standlng In the lobby MarIlyn had recently receIved the PuIItzer PFIZE for LIterature Among the royal guests were the Duke and Duchess of AloysIa The Duchess was Jeanne Gallagher formally Once InsIde the Talty mansIon I recognIzed many of my old fnends Among them was Joan Cella the celebrated woman sur geon of SaInt Mary s HospItal Who were those two taIkIng In the corner? Of course' Eleanor Hudak head nurse at SaInt FrancIs HospItal and Joan MBHIHO head buyer for BonwIt Teller Only three more and the class of 49 would be complete There they werel Standmg by the orchestral AngeIIna Cnsmale Geraldlne SCOIII and Mary Boyle Angellna IS a leadIng candy magnet Geraldme IS a noted woman scIentIst and Mary now Slster Mary Kathleen IS prIncIpal of our old Alma Mater' Lucky me after all these years to meet all my old classmates and fInd that wIth the grace of God they all had done so welll w X' U' aft ,Cs 7 Ng QL Gm QB:-A Iv In II owl D y N .I QL II 4 'I I Il I ly I II I II I I X B I N , 1 I 7 ,rv 'I ' -X I., I ,lv 04, I N 1. X B I 'X If -I' ' I I4 . fn. g 1 'mx 0 . . I I I 11 -I II I ' SS' o-06' , I . . ' ' 'I CB, ' , ' I . I Q I I . ' ' ' . . . ' IX lN.'l. Nelson Eddy's latest leading lady, inthe superb showg but' I was 0 llm sl . . f ' ' . I . ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' X1 . I I I I I ' Q I Isl' . ' . . . I I . -I 6 I l 1 I , I . I I D I . I 1 I I . O I 0 , s J - Q 4