Academy of Mount Saint Vincent - Chastellux Yearbook (Tuxedo Park, NY)

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Candystripers Bring Joy To Tuxedo Park Hospital YCS... YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS . . . has replaced the Sodality at the Mount this year. One of the activities of the group has been working as “CANDYSTRIPERS” at the Tuxedo Park Hospital. Several Seniors and Juniors spend an afternoon each week at the Hospital, but the problem of transporta- tion for both boarders and dayhops shortens their time there, and is a real handicap. PAM NIXON, one of work, or any other form of hospital work is her choice or NOT her choice when a decision about a career and preparation for it must be made. Some of our dayhops. unable to arrange to be Candy- stripers at T P H. work in hospitals near home on weekends. our Sophomores, lives in the Park, and divides her spare time between home and hospital. The pictures on this page show just a few of her activities . . . read- ing to a tiny patient . . . letting a baby feel the warmth of her love . . . giving a cold drink to some- one who is obviously grateful for the service. Another one of the services which older patients who are convalescing appreciate very much is the “BOOK- MOBILE”. PAM is only too happy to provide any pa- tient who wishes them with books, magazines and newspapers. One of the obvious dividends for PAM and our other Candystripers. aside from the happiness there is in a life of service to others, is the opportunity to see all phases of hospital work the pleasant and the unpleas- ant, and as a result to decide that nursing, laboratory 112

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CCD Functions As A Separate Unit Unii! this year the CONFRATERNITY of CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, the CCD . functioned as part of the Sodality. This year, when the Sodality was replaced by the YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS, it was decided to keep the C C D as a separate group. SISTER GERTRUDE MIRIAM was appointed its Moderator. SIS- TER BERNARD, of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, whose principal work is the giv- ing of religious instruction, had come to us once a week last year to train our Student Catechists. Her work was so important and successful that she was asked to continue the program this year. In the picture at the right. SISTER BERNARD, left, and SIS- TER GERTRUDE, right, discuss new approaches to be used in the light of Vatican . Every Wednesday morning SISTER BERNARD takes ALL the Juniors for a course in Methods of Teaching Religion. This is an especially interested portioil of her group. They are: S. CULLIGAN, D. DUVALL. C. EVANS. A. INGANAMORT. C. CHISHOLM, J. F1TZGIBBON. B BRADY and L. RUSSOTTI CATHY JONES (left) is the only Senior this year who has chosen C C D as a principal ex- tracurricular activity. In the picture at the right. DENISE O’KEEFE, a Junior, works at the blackboard with two of her pupils. Several other Juniors devote Wednesday afternoons to this work, and some help out in their home parishes too. Ill

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 Juniors Arrange Stork Shower For Mrs. Barbara Van Pelt Her JUNIOR ENGLISH CLASS has decided that ‘7 is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. . . ” and when they realized that they would soon be losing MRS. VAN PELT they planned a Stork Shower for her. Much time, thought and work went into the planning and arranging. The Shower was held in 3-2. Festoons of pink and blue crepe paper hung from the ceiling. Walls, bulletin boards and blackboards were arrayed with balloons. The entire front blackboard was covered with suggestions of names for the baby. A Bulletin Board was decorated with dozens of pictures of babies from mazagine advertisements. Desks were grouped in the center of the room to form a large table, and covered with a stork-decorated paper tablecloth. Under a pink and blue umbrella were piled the beautifully wrapped gifts, special- As soon as the last gift had been unwrapped, the large cake was brought to be cut and served. Teen-agers enjoy a party any time of the day or night, and soon empty plates and bottles were all to be seen. The bell rang for the second period . . . swish . . . push . . . out with the trash . . . clean the blackboards . . . push the desks back in place. The SHOWER is over . . . just a wonderful memory for everybody. 113 ly decorated cakes, paper cups, plastic forks, and bottles of cold drinks. As soon as MRS. VAN PELT arrived for her 9:15 English Class, the SHOWER began. MICHELLE pinned a corsage on the Guest of Honor and each of the other members of the Faculty present received a tiny stork as a souvenir. The JUNIORS gave MRS. VAN PELT a few minutes to read the names suggested for the baby, and then urged her to begin opening the gifts—a process which they obviously enjoyed as much as she, for they were beautifully wrapped and chosen with care.