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

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This Will Be The Last Class To Graduate From AMSV It was mid-morning - the First Friday of December. SISTER RITA’s voice came over the P. A. All students would report immediately to the Auditorium. No further explanation. Later we found out. A Dayhop had phoned home just before nine a.m. Her Mother told her about a letter in the morning’s mail — the Academy would be phasing out! The news was spreading through the school, and SISTER RITA decided to call an Assembly, make the announcement officially, explain the reasons for the decision and the plans as far as they had been formulated. She would answer questions if she could. These four Juniors have been leaders since their Freshman Year and climbing the ladder of success is new to none of them From the bottom upward: MARIBETH McCORMICK. ANNE COYLE. SUE MARA and RITA McKENNA At the Mass in Marian Hall in November, the day of the Underclass •HAPPENINGS’ these were three of the Guitarists. CAROLYN REISCHL. SHAREE FREEMAN and RITA McKENNA 70

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PAT MAHER JOANNE. JULIE. CAROL Qnde Q l SS GS ROSEMARY HENNESSEY Standing on lower rungs where we once stood £tretching upward to the height5 we howe veowhed

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The Academy had been established in 1847 and now. after just one hundred and twenty-five years, its doors were clos- ing. Its first location had been in what is now Central Park, its second, on the Hudson just below Yonkers, until the ex pansion of the College squeezed it out. It had been here at Tuxedo since 1943. Student reactions to SISTER RITA’S announcement were first disbelief . . . then puzzlement . . . then realization of all the decision would mean to each personally . . . and at this thought, in many cases, there were tears . . Meetings were held — Faculty, Personnel, Parents, Board of Trustees . . . but the final decision was the same — and June 1972 would be the date. LINDLEY HALL, our School Building, had been the home of CLARA HILL LINDLEY. sister of RUTH HILL HEIDSIECK. who had given CHASTELLUX to the Sisters of Charity. When MRS. LINDLEY died her husband gave their home to the Academy. Grouped on the lawn before the School Building are nineteen Juniors. Kneeling: MONIQUE PERIGNON, ROSEMARIE OTTOMANELLI. KERRY TUTHILL. DEB BE DE CURTIS. KATHY WALZ and LIZ SEWARD. Standing: PRISCILLA PERRY. BUNNY MURTAGH. KATE MULVEY. TITA PEREZ. CATHY O’CONNELL. CATHY PETERSON. IVELISSE NEGRONI. MAGDA PICO. DIANNE RITTER. CECILIA O’TOOLE. JOANNE PALACINO. CATHY CORCORAN and CAROLYN REISCHL. Enjoying the warm sunshine on the lawn: MARI MORALES. ISA GONZALEZ. IVELISSE NEGRONI and SUSAN A KANE. The first three had come to us last September when their Academy in Puerto Rico had closed. And now our Academy was closing too. 71