St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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 3Se »' LA LUMIERE 1923 35« Page Seventeen Senior Class History Officers President Vice-President Ranson Drew Marguerite Bridges Aileen Powers Kathryn Bianconi Secretary Treasurer It has been said that an accurate history cannot he written until a hundred years after the happening of the events. You ask me for a resume of the achieve- ments of the Class of 1923, but my usually eloquent pen falters and my most swashbuckling expressions but inadequately portray the glorious record made by this peerless Class. Descending upon the Academy like a meteor out of a clear sky, in the fall of 1919, the Class of ’23 struck the student body with awe and the faculty with admiration! Now that we are about to depart into the shadowy future, is it any wonder that this dismal announcement seems already to darken the countenance of our Alma Mater? Too numerous to detail are the triumphs and trophies proudly carried away by this grand old class. To none other has Alma Mater pointed, with pride, w hile exclaiming, “These are my jewels,” than to the banner Class of 1923. Gentle readers!—now that wre are to go out into the wride, wide world, leaving these classic halls desolate, tell me, who will lend priceless counsels to the faculty when some matter of moment is at stake? Our dignity as Seniors has been unqualified excellence. A word—or even a look— from us has been enough to quell anything of a riotous tendency in our inferiors—even the incorrigible Sophomores! In feats of brain and brawn, 1923 has not been lacking. Behold the medals for Oratory won by Roberta McDonnell and Marguerite Bridges; prizes for Expression by the same Marguerite, Opal Cross, and Aileen Powers. And what of the tennis record left by Kathryn Bianconi? Our standard of debating has carried off the honors, even though our opponents did give us a hard battle. Dear friends, witness the splendid achievements of that noble organization, a “child of our own brain,” the Dramatic Club, whose conquests are recorded elsewhere in this volume. And now that we have reached the end of our beginning, may we be permitted to voice the modest hope that those who follow us on our triumphal march may uphold the spirit, honor, and traditions of our beloved school and that the Class of 1924 may strive to make themselves worthy of the mantle of wisdom which we now let fall upon their shoulders. —Kathryn Bianconi, '23. Yell Rah! Rah! Rah! “The Rose and Gray” I ong live S. J. A.

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 LA LUMIERE 1923 •1(355! ) Page Sixteen PERSONAL PROPERTY Item—I, Marguerite Bridges, do hereby will my tendency to giggle to Arizona McKee. Item—I, Kathryn Bianconi, do hereby will my agility in sliding down banisters to Margaret Brannen. Item—I, Virginia Amberg, do hereby will my reputation as Chemistry shark to Richard McCormick. Item-—I, Nellie Martinez, do hereby will my “Jazz”-playing propensities to Genevieve Hume. Item—I, Aileen Powers, only glad of a chance to get rid of my freckles, do hereby will them to Gertrude Fitzgerald. “To him that hath shall be given.” Item—I, Geraldine McCormick, do hereby will my athletic ability to Sally Davis. Item—I, Opal Cross, do hereby will my expressive, big, brown eyes to Irene Thompson. Item—I, Bobby McDonnell, do hereby will my original walk to Margaret McNally. Item—We, Kathryn Bianconi and Opal Cross, do hereby will our inseparability to Frances O'Neil and Frances Giroux. Item—We, Bobby and Peggy, do hereby will our gift of “gab” to Cleora Keese and Arizona MeKie. Item—I, Geraldine McCormick, do hereby bequeath my width and height to Teresa Martinez. Item—I, Ranson Drew, do hereby will my complexion to the Junior girls, to be divided equally among them—thereby abolishing all vanity cases. 3!n (Gllitnrss ©Ufjertof, We have set our hands and seals this twenty-second day of June, in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty- three. Signed: Senior Class of 1923. KATHRYN BIANCONI OPAL CROSS VIRGINIA AMBERG ROBERTA MCDONNELL AILEEN POWERS MARGUERITE BRIDGES NELLIE MARTINEZ CiERALD1NE MC CORMICK RANSON DREW —Geraldine McCormick. '23.

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 3 LA LUMIERE 1923 Page Eighteen S. J. A. S. J. A., S. J. A., Prescott’s greatest pride—yea! yea! Banner Class as well you know. Now from out these portals go. Watch us climb o'er all that bars. Through all clouds, up to the stars. Rose and gray, rose and gray. Dear old S. J. A.! Rose and gray, rose and gray, High School days are bright and gay. We must leave these scenes of joy; Everv pleasure has alloy. Happily have these dear hours passed; Bright days cannot always last. Rose and gray, rose and gray, Dear old S. J. A.! Sisters dear, gathered here. Though home and friends are drawing near, We’ll chant our Alma Mater’s fame, Our voices raise in glad acclaim. Fare-thee-well! Dear memories dwell, Your mother-love we’ll proudly tell. Ring out old bell! Sound your knell. S. J. A. Farewell! —A ileen Pouters.