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

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LA LUMIERE 1923 --- -------—I(d5K Page Twenty-five Junior Class President Officers Richard McCormick Vice-President Rosella Davis Secretary Frances Giroux Treasurer Margaret McNally Today we’re “standing with reluctant feet” on the threshold of our Senior Year, while sweet memories of our Junior days draw our heart strings to joyous scenes now receding into the past. Three years of High School life have brought us to this coveted place and our Editor-in-Chief has demanded from us an “account of our stewardship.” She has further instructed us that it be in “happy vein” so—a Voeurre! During our Freshman Year we not only carried off Tennis honors, which glory came to our class through Rosella Davis, Margaret Millin (now a resident of the Movie City), and Richard McCormick, but Frances Giroux won the inter- scholastic Essay prize. Some of us “greenies” were also used as “fill-ins” for the upper Class Plays, which was excellent training for later dramatics. Our social functions were always Freshmanly frolicsome. The first Academy Track Meet marked our Sophomore year and our old reliable “Sally” Davis nearly smashed the world’s College Girls’ champion high- jump—her record being 4 feet, fi inches. Hourra! Of course we “forded the stream” and “threw bridges across the Rhine” with the Imperial Caesar, and even passed examinations in “Trig.” The Junior Prom was the event de luxe of this year (for details consult the memory books!) The Tennis Tournament again meant new luster to our “rep,” as athletes. (Just visit our Trophy Hall and read the names on the Lovin’ Cups!) In English we have waded through the blood of Macbeth and Hamlet; we have stood (our Exams) in the Forum with Cicero; we have ever been good guessers in Chemistry—but some of us have taken to Math like a Bolshevik to a barber shop. In “Public Speaking” we stood our ground—though our knees registered something like a seismographic disturbance. And now, walking in the shadow of the lofty Seniors, we follow our valiant leaders—hoping to emulate their virtues and—enjoy their privileges—nous verrons! Yell Ricketty, Ricketty, Ricketty, Rus! Juniors! Zip! Some class To us! —Frances Giroux, '25.

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 LA LUMIERE 1923 •K3555 Page Twenty-seven Sophomore Class Officers President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Virginia Hunt Louise Davis Mary Reedy Mildred Settle “Boost and the school boosts with yen. Knock and you knock alone! The Sophomores of ’23 had in mind this motto when we began our High School work in '21. How we have practiced it our record tells. Though we have been dubbed the “Big Bosses” and occasionally some one changes the “Boost” to “Boast” on the face of our fair escutcheon, yet when it comes to love for school and teachers kind— Sophomore Twenty-three Spells “Loyalty!” In our Freshman year we featured in Athletics and Vera Asher won the medal for broad jumping. This year we have made a fine record in Debating— though the judges (owing to their conventional ideas) often cast the vote in favor of our opponents. Oar Carnival on St. Patrick’s Day was—like its originators—unique and un- paralleled. Probably the most interesting attraction was “A Trip to Heaven” (although we regret to say the Seniors aired their conviction that we are doubtful authorities on any subject above “terra firma”). Now that we have skillfully wended our way half through the intricate labyrinth of the S. J. A. High School curriculum, and, with well-crammed (though not swollen) heads, are about to take unto ourselves the name of “Mighty Juniors,” we consider it fitting and proper to mask our exuberant spirits with that subdued and harassed look which you, dear reader, have perhaps noticed is peculiar to Juniors! Although next September will see us back in dear old S. J. A.—happy, and, we trust, not too high-browed—it is with desolate hearts we submit to the “Passing of the Sophomores of ’23! Yell Biff! Boom! Bang! Whiff! Whoof! Whang! Sophomores What a gang! —Virginia Hunt, '25.