St Marys High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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r' I 2 5 Q R I , 7 I 4 1 v The begmnmg of +l'1e end Sepfember I I I956 J Busalacchu, J Cannon, M Snlvam, J Genereux L. Corfopassu, C. Lnccrardl, D. Salveffu. Pracfice for June I3, I957 Commencemenf Night R. Afler, W. Bafchelor, B. Tuso, P. Jacobs, J. McHugh, G. Converse, B. Rosso, S. Kerfchem. Page 75 'f' T53 Che year ,714 165 few 1 . f 555. . X 1 ', x .a Vn , Dwi , rug. . A , ,J

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The 69ers exTerminaTe The ExTerminaTors. Beachcombersf' inTramural baslcefball champions: M. J. Espinosa. J. Busalacchi, Page 74 The Michaels. l-l. BarlceTT, D. l'lappolclT. J. Giovannoni. The Beachcombers play The Trojans for firsT place in inTramural finals. Intramural Sports The Fearful Five faced The Mud- hens, or The Censored Seven. or GladiaTors, or whomever The inTra- mural baskefball schedule Turned up againsf Them, buf The Beachcomb- ers Took on all comers and emerged vicTorious. They played nine games and won all of Them including a close final conTesT againsT The sophomore Troians. The laTTer group losT Two and won seven To finish in second place. lnframural volleyball was a conTesT for boTh boys and girls. The Teams boasf- ed colorful names and defermined, if noT Too skillful, parTicipanTs. The sea- son was climaxed by The annual game befween The Irish and The ITalians. Volleyball managers were Emil Vac- carezza and Jane McHugh.

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U16 New Sain! Mary is There is always a pleasanT anTicipaTion in someThing new. and very oTTen a cerTain amounT oT senTimenTal regreT in casTing aside The old. Such were The Teelings of many of us when we.enTered The new ST.Mary's High School. We arrived in SepTember i956 and Tound a splendidly equipped school: new desks, new books. up-To-daTe equipmenT in science labs. The laTesT Type oT mechanical drawing Tables, modern windows proTecTed by sparkling aluminum louvers and a spacious caTeTorium. We also had The added privilege oT having priesTs. The sons of ST.Francis. as Teachers, along wiTh our Dominican SisTers, To carry on The age-old Triendship oT ST. Francis and ST. Dominic. While we experienced a nosTalgia Tor The happy days'spenT in The old school, The TirsT year in The new school has already seen The developmenT oT a new spiriT and a changed schedule ThaT includes many diverse elemenTs. RegisTraTion in The AdminisTraTion Building, The noon- Time snack bar line-up, The Paddy Wagon. The more saTisTacTory lockers, The spacious, well- lighTed library, morning Mass in Room 53 ---all bear wiTness To The changed order of The day. l-lave we achieved seTTlemenT amid our new surroundings? ThaT aTTachmenT ThaT one oTTen has Toward The old and well-worn? Perhaps noT. BuT our reTlexes and emoTions and senTi- menTs are noT quickly and superTicially changed Trom one environmenT To anoTher. Our new ST.lv1ary's is sTill Too shiny new To evoke The nosTalgia ThaT Page 76 beginning of The TirsT year in The comes when someone sighs, . . . The old ST.Mary's. BuT we have no doubT ThaT in The years To come we will look upon a mellowed new ST. lvlary's and proudly say, Yes. we broke her in. We were The TirsT graduaT- ing class of The new school. RegisTraTion Day and The new school: SepTember I956