West Philadelphia Catholic Girls High School - Gleam Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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T4-I-E C-3L.-E-QFYX 1935 PHYSICAL TRAININ EST CATHOLIC, following the ancient advice con' cerning a sane mind in a sound body, requires physical training on every students roster. This department is efhciently administered through the combined efforts of Miss Louise La Sala, Miss Flora De Laurentes, and Miss Genevieve Rowley. The Freshmen are initiated into the mysteries of folk and aesthetic dancing. The combined Sophomore and Junior Classes specialize in advanced expresf sionistic dancing and apparatus work-horses, rings, and ropes. Clubfswinging, more apparatus work, and very advanced rhythmic expression comprise the Seniors' schedule. In addition to their class work these teachers ably supervise all extrafcurricular athletics, such as swimming and horse' back riding, with the exception of basketball which is under the capable direction of Miss Sue Dougherty. MARGARET PAQUET, '35. Miss Louisa LA SALA Mlss FLORA DB LAURENTES Miss GENEVIEVE ROWLEY Miss SUE DOUGHERTY Twentyffour

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CLASS PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE When they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh HERE comes a day when the bud must become a flower, when the seed must bear fruit. So, too, in the life of every West Catholic Senior there comes Graduation Day, marking an ending, and initiating a beginning in the life of every girl: As she looks into the past, that day signi' iies an ending, a conclusion of all those knightferrantries that find for their background high school lifeg in relation to the future, it signifies a beginning, an opening of a world that never ceases to need youth, needs you and me and our myriads of sister graduates. That the world is in the throes of an economic depres' sion, that industry has slackened, that skies are smokeless, should not dispirit youth. New ideals, new hopes, new aspirations clamor for expression iii living. New lamps must shine where feeble candles failed to burn. Yet, whether our adventures, yours and mine, be on the peaks of Darien or in the valleys of strife, there will shine faith, the gleam from West Catho1ic's Torch of Truth, her children's heritage.