Annunciation High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

Page 26 text:

'THE ANNUNCIATA Class Prophecy scene: worm-s FAIR Time: l95O I A young man sank inTo his chair wiTh a long sigh. The day had been raTher hard, Twelve broadcasTs and Two Trips Trom Radio CiTy To Long Island. He saT a momenT, Then wiTh a weary sigh, Turned and looked aT The picTures on The wall. IT had been a long Time since he had seen his classmaTes. buT There They were young and smiling and eager To live and To conquer. He wondered whaT They were doing and how They had all Turned ouT. He hoped They had been as successful as he, for he was now, James J. Lennon, Vice-PresidenT oT N. B. C. Television deparTmenT. Suddenly he saT up, snapped his Tingers and smiled. Di lmmorTales! He'd do iT, he had The money, power and he could do iT. THe saT down and wroTe Thef Tol- lowing noTe To The members of his class oT I939: Please lisTen To The radio-Television, SaTurday nighT aT 8:00 o'clock. STaTion WABC. iSignedi JAMES J. LENNON. Some oT These noTes had To be cabled Tor several of his classrnaTes were abroad. SaTurday nighT came: each lisTened wiTh expecTaTion. WhaT was going To happen? Then, There he was, old James as big as life, and each in Turn saw himself on The screen, as he used To be. FirsT, Two girls appeared, who were They? Why Mary SenHle and Mary Eliza- beTh Falk, iusT walking and Talking las They always werei. They saT and waTched in Their Paris aparTmenT, Tor Mary was now La grande arTisTe and Mary E. La grande romancieref' Mary: Did we really look like ThaT? Mary E.: We really did do a loT oT Talking, didn'T we? My ThaT scene looks Tarniliar, iT's The old Blue Banner room, The Tigures? Why, Anne Pavone and Frances Kennedy, oT course. They smiled as They saw Themselves: They had carried ouT Their youThTul ambiTions, Tor each day in The HearsT paper were columns wiTh The bylines bearing Their names. Anne: WhaT iournalisTic achievemenTs we acquired in ThaT old room! Frances: I can sTill smell The old ink, iT goT in my blood There, l do believe. Two boys This Time, and whaT in The world are They doing? They are sTudying, and iT's an Algebra. Suddenly They looked up, whaT a surprise! RoberT Cunningham and NorTon Gold-en. ThaT musT be The comedy parT, The sTudying, I mean. These Two saT and laughed, waTched The resT oT The program, and Then hurried down To Their newspaper oTFices, where They wroTe a ioinT sporTs column Tor The Globe. RoberT: lmagine me sTudying? NorTon: And an Algebra aT ThaT. Lennon hasn'T losT his sense oT humor. The school library is The nexT scene, The TheTa Ti is holding an imprompTu sororiTy meeTing under The disapproving eye of SisTer Theophane. Each girl waTched and smiled reminiscenTly. Helen and Camilla saT in Their luxurious quarTers in Their fashionable New England day school Tor girls. Helen: Remember The day l yelled one aT a Time ? page twenty

Page 25 text:

'Q THE ANNUNCIATA History of the Class ol:'39 eaouun cizew ln SepTember, l935, TorTy-Tive enThusiasTic workers were enrolled in The ground crew oT The Class '39. WiTh, aT leasT normal equipmenT oT originaliTy and ambiTion, we seT TorTh To make our class unique in The hisTory oT AnnunciaTion. Our Theme, seT down in our moTTo, ,We Build Tor Tomorrow, direcTed us To The World Fair, our GraduaTion. Under The supervision oT our Freshman Teacher, SisTer Mary Bernice, our beloved enThusiasT, we weeded The garden oT our minds wiTh spades and shovels and hoes and rakes of LaTin declensions, Algebraic equaTions, English rhymes and rhyThms and social problems. Our year was successTul because oT The underlying principles of applica- Tion, sinceriTy and good sporTsmanship oT The Crew as a whole. CONCESSION OWNERS IT was in our second year ThaT our sense oT responsibiliTy was TesTed. The nov- elfy OT our FirsT Year kepT up our buoyancy, buT now we had To Turn our implemenTs inTo 'foreign soil, boTh ancienT and modern. Under our exacTing French MisTress, SisTer Mary of Carmel, we Took on a comprenez-vous look and an anTiquaTed air oT The EgypTians, Medes and Persians. We were obliged To sponsor our own Mission Program, our own candy sales, and we even presumed To produce a scene Trom The MerchanT of Venice. We plodded on unTil The Tollowing SepTember, we Tormed a PUBLICITY SQUAD The experience of The TirsT Two years encouraged us To emerge from obscuriTy and To puT inTo execuTion whaT we had hiTherTo been culTivaTing, working harder sTill wiTh geomeTric angles and Ciceronian speeches. We held our own in The Mission acTiviTies3 we produced Three one-acT plays, one of which, The Dean's Chair, was The original work oT our own Frances Kennedy. ln SepTember, I938, we enTered The Fair Grounds To prepare Tor The big FAlR, our GraduaTion. AnoTher year of Trimming and Touching-up, wiTh SisTer Veracunda as our Tinal guide, and we were well on our way. The AnnunciaTa, The burden oT The year, served as a leveler Tor our super-buoyancy. ATTer a sTrenuous year of serious labor. we are now ready To Take our places in The march down The Hall oT achievemenT. WiTh flags aloTT, crowned wiTh our square- cuT graduaTion caps, we appear as The celebriTies of A. l-l. S. I939. On leaving our life hisTory as a memory oT our years aT AnnunciaTion, we wish To Thank our RighT Reverend Monsignor Tor our High School educaTion7 Reverend FaTher C-5albraiTh, FaTher Carey, FaTher Logel and FaTher Walker Tor The beauTiTul memories we shall Take wiTh us oT Their lives: all The SisTers Tor Their devoTion in Training us, and wiTh a prayer Tor all, we close The chapTer of AnnunciaTion Annals, enTiTled The Class oT I939. En rouTe To The WORLD FAIR. CAMILLA M. SOLLY, '39 page nineteen

Page 27 text:

'THE ANNUNCIATA Camilla: IT brings back memories of gag fesTs all righT. Jeanne and BeTTy shared a Buffalo aparTmenT for They were privaTe secre- Taries To Two prominenT Buffalo business men. Jeanne: I'd give anyThing To be back There. BeTTy: Do you Think we would be welcome back? Norma smiled blissfully. 'She was happy, iusT being an ordinary housewife. Norma: We cerTainly had our fun. Marion and Anne. grinned aT each oTher over Their coffee Table in Their San Bernardo home, each relaxing afTer a hard day-Marion aT her Hollywood Boulevard shop and Anne aT The M. G. M. STudios where she was a scenarisT. Marion: I cer+ainIy miss Those inTeresTing discussions during American I'IisTory. Anne: I-low we every goT Through is a miracle. Two aThleTes flash on The screen. WalTer MarTin, wiTh his skaTes, and Louis GonTer wiTh his Tennis rackef. Each was now a member of The U. S. Olympic Teams and had Taken prizes in The I944 Olympic in ITaly. WalTer: Those morning GeomeTry classes were raTher early, weren'T They? Louis: Yes, we were early birds and we goT our worms. Look, who's ThaT ringing The gong? Why, iT's James Briggs, how vivid The memories grow. James saT back in his easy chair. I-Ie was now superinTendenT of Buffalo schools. James: And I sTill have ThaT old faiThful waTch, iT never leT me down in school and never has yeT. Two girls appear. They hurry up The school sTeps. WaiT Till we see Their faces. O, iT's Mary and Julia O'Keefe. They are now school Teachers, and favoriTes indeed of Their pupils for They sTill recall Their own school days. Julia: Amo, amas. amaT. I sTill remember EaTher Walker's LaTin class, whaT an experience! Mary: AT Times I goT Tired of moving around for Marion and Anne, buT iT wasn'T Too bad. Look There! Who are Those ladies going inTo The Congressional Library? My, They look familiar! Geraldine Eleey and Marion Roessel, They are boTh novelisTs now. Geraldine: My, l've changed a IoT since Then. Marion: Many is The nighT I lay awake worrying over Cicero, alThough I realized I wasn'T alone in my misery. Look aT William Walsh and VincenT Sheedy figuring ouT Their gains for The year. They are parTners in ownership of a sTring of drug sTores. William: Our sTudy of chemisTry gave us a good sTarT in our life work. VincenT: We would never be where we are now wiThouT iT. Well, how imporTanT ThaT man looks, why iT's John Doyle. .He sTill has ThaT air of significance as well as The sTudied one of a professor. Who is The nexT? Why iT's William Callahan, we would know him anywhere by his size. l'Ie's following his greaT ambiTion, Too, for he is leading Tenor aT The MeTropoliTan in New York. William: Good Things come in small packages. The review was over. They had all passed before him. The memories of days gone by had been re-lived Tor one shorT, swifT momenT. Each cIassmaTe had become alive for James, walked and Talked once more, and Then siIenTly passed forever inTo oblivion To all buT Those wiTh whom They lived and worked. ANNE SMITH, '39 page twentyfone