St Josephs College - Footprints Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Connie Reynold ' s hair. Connie Rick s orchestra. Ella SchelsJel ' s manner. ' irginia Stack ' s name on the Freshman vol I ' eggy Sullivan ' s Spanish. Dot Thompson ' s Quaker Boy. Kay Walsh ' s Mary Walsh ' s ' irginia Walsh ' s Kay Wilson ' s armory. Fannie Winkler ' s scenery. Elinor Wood ' s presumption in writing this. :i ' 7jf»-

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Vnforgetahles Alice Adam ' s junioi Near. Helen Allen ' s parliamentary law. Emma Bergen ' s crush. Mary Bird ' s insidious influence. Gen Boston ' s dreams. Eileen Ijurgen ' s permanent wave. Helen Callahan ' s football games. Anna Campion ' s noise. Aggie Comerford ' s bashfulness. Genie Cormier ' s temperament. Elizabeth Corrigan ' s posture. Terrie De Voe ' s chrysanthemum. Evelyn Dotzler ' s West Pointer. Jeannette Farrell ' s seminarians. Evelyn Foppiani ' s Sehora. Myrtle Foster ' s blush. Marie (ilasson ' s notes. Dorothy Hand ' s extreme age. Marge Harnett ' s tea room. Grace Hart ' s orderly sanctum. Betty Hebron ' s feelings after 27 ' s Juninr I ' n Mary Hennessy ' s long hair. Marge Hertel ' s demureness. Mary Hunt ' s alter ego. Betty Judge ' s math debate. Mary Kane ' s repartee. Kay Kearney ' s arrival at S.J.C. Mary Keller ' s persistent alto. Marie Kelley ' s pedagogy. Agnes Kelly ' s U.B.A. Mary Kelly ' s brief case. Helen Kenny ' s telephone calls. Florence Kreischer ' s arrival. Katherine Lavery ' s ' earning for more work. Gert I oughlin ' s retreat. Alita Ludder ' s yawning in late class. Rho Magnor ' s summer at Rutgers. Mary Manning ' s missions. Edna McCorniick ' s announcement. Bebs McIvOUgblin ' s ironing. Peg McNulty ' s Loria. Mary Mi(ldlecam] ' s Dot. Dot Murphy ' s glee in the Glee CM). Mary Murray ' s experiments. Marie O ' Shea ' s wave. Marian Packert ' s debates. Regina Peppard ' s write ups committee. Ethel Perkin ' s savoir faire. Emilv Pleines ' s studiousness. Catherine Quinn ' s silence. Frances Reardon ' s secondary teaching. ■4 26 }»..-

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Valedictory Let fair do her : ' irsl, llicrc tire rclirs of joy. Bright dreams of the past, zchieli she eaiiuot destroy; And 7i. ' hieli eonie in tlie niijlitiuie of sornn ' and eare; And In-i}, ' . luielc the features that Joy used to ' ;cear : l.oii . l(nr he luv heart 7t ' i sueh memories filled; Like the I ' ase in lAiieh roses lun ' e onee been distilled. ) ' oii nnjy break, you may shatter the ' i ' ase if you :AII. Ihit the seent of the roses .vvV eliu; roumi it still. HI ) i -i(llv thesL- tender words recall the beginnings of precious friend- sliips ; how Ijeaiitifully thev resolve thenisel ' es into echoes of events long l)ast, how ade |uately thev render themselves the most expressive media for the translation of our innermost thoughts! In reviewing a series of years spent in the fortifying of a Christian faith. and in the pursuance of an education designed as a fitting supplement for that Heaven-bestowed faith, our thoughts turn most naturally to our dear ones. It is our parents who welcome with a silent prayer the crystallization of a hope nurtured so ' lovingly through anxious years. With reverence, with humility, with a keen sense of our imperfections do we approach that most sacred of subjects — the love of our parents ! It was that surpassing love which looked upon inevitable sacrifice with a fortitude which has ever characterized their devotion towards us. For the depth of their love evidenced a willingness, a fer ent desire to meet and overcome a condition that, in all too many cases, meant ultimate sacrifice for them. Sacrifice implies on one hand, a bitter experience, yet one cannot think of it but as a sub- lime gesture, born in a heart which has been divorced wdiolly from self. It is in the latter sense we prefer to visualize our parents ' love- — inspired efforts for the furtherance of our education and our ideals. Dear Parents — we breathe this with all the fervor of which our souls are capable — dear Parents, if no other thought shall ])revail, most earnestly do we desire that you should realize how grateful is our appreciation for what you have made possii)le for us. Mother and Father, we pray that your guiding souls may long be with us, to direct, to advise, and to inspire us. Since the beginning of time there have been few material things prized above precious stones and jewels. When we came here four years ago, we came bear- ing but the smallest jewel. As the years went by our jewel became larger ; its lustre heightened; its value increased in richness; it was a veritable pearl of great price. ' ' And that jewel is education. To you, revered Faculty, do we ow-e the preservation of that jewel ' s innate chastity, its stainless efifulgency. Lapidaries tell us that under the solicitude of a loving possession, a pearl blossoms, thrives, and flourishes with a health peculiar to itself and only under such conditions. You, dear Faculty, have nurtured that jewel, have anxiously kept vigil that its development might be the more perfect with a perseverance that could be found in no other group of persons so inter- ested in our welfare. Now, as the gleaming jewel reposes on a background of ideals and sound principles, it is but meet and just, that we acknowledge our debt to you who have labored so industriou-sly that we might be made fitter subjects for the adornment of that precious and most tenable jewel of a Catholic education. One hesitates when one would address those who are at this moment closest in each other ' s thoughts and in each other ' s hearts — Clas.smates! With the great- 4 28 }. -