Annunciation High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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The Recfo ry A Remembrance of our visif fo Mi. S+. Mary The Convenf A corner of Hue press room

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'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

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'THE ANNUNCIATA Last Will and Testament We. The class of I939, having complefed, aT Annunciafion High School, The preparaTion for our World's Fair, bid farewell To our Pasfor, our Teachers, and school- mafes. Grafefully, we Tender our hearTfelT appreciafion To our RighT Reverend PasTor, Monsignor O'Brien, and bequeafh To him our love and lasTing reverence. To Reverend Pafer Edward Walker, our LaTin professor, we leave our admirafion for his accomplishmenfs wiTh The almosT impossible. We hope he will confinue To Taxi The ball players around The Town. We saluTe you, Fafher, magna cum laude! We besTow on Sisfer Veracunda, our Teacher, moderaTor, and friend, many Thanks for her pafience and guidance aT all Times, especially wiTh The perennial headache, lfhe Year Bookl. V To SisTer Theophane we leave The memory of our ScoTch Plaid Junior Year spiriT. Hoof, Mon! We hope Sisfer will always be glad To recall I938 as The year of her life. Probably iT was The worsT. To Soeur Marie du Carmel, we bid a fond adieu, which carries wiTh iT many happy memories of French I, ll, and Ill. Bon iour To dicTaTions, aural comprehen- sions, idioms, verbs. ET TouT le melee. Bonne chance, Soeur! We Thank SisTer Felicify for The memory of American Hisforyg especially Roose- velT's alphabeT soup. iHow could we forgeT iTl She will probably see us very soon working on his nafional proiecfs: W. P. A., C. C. C., N. Y. A., or even l. R. C. To The Junior Class of T939 we leave The Senior Room, all iTs appurTenances, The worries of The Year Book, Teachers, Tradifions, and prospecfs for a New World's Fair. Farewell, and many Thanks, Juniors! , Kafherine Askey, Jeanne Blafner, and Helen Donahue leave Norah Hall The righT To conducf discussions in American HisTory. This probably won'T be a difficulf proiecf Tor her and her friends To measure up wiTh Their pasT experiences. Mary E. Falk and Mary Senffle leave Their affinifies To Eileen Rich and a friend of her own choice. Three guesses iT will be eligible Alice Gunning. Keep smiling! The seaTs in The back of The room are handed down To Thomas lncandela by Edward McManus. We hope Tommy will conTinue wiTh his exfra-curricular acTiviTies. Thank you, Ed.l Marion ollfers To Norah Hall her knack for excelling in American Hisfory and also her exquisife knowledge of inferior decoraTing. Many Thanks, Marion, for your cooperafionl Don'T blush now, ain'T iT The TruTh ? James Lennon, always beliTTling Roberf Swanz' episode of rescuing Two drowning boys in Delaware Park Lake, conveys his personalify, hoping ThaT iT will noT sink Bob, The nexT Time. Jimmy cannoT pawn his pink shirT on To anyone, so iT will have To remain as a family heirloom. Geraldine Eleey and The Bill Board Commiffee would like To have Rufh Lownie confinue The fine posfer work which They sTarTed. Thank you. Gerry, for your won- derful poefry, and skeTch of The Trylon and perisphere, which has added To The zesT of our Year Book. Goodbye, and don'T wear ouT Too many lead pencils! The arTisTic abilifies of Daniel Harringfon and WalTer Marfin are bequeafhed To Howard Collins wiTh The hope ThaT he will use Them for fuTure year books. Some of Their works of arT are: Venus de Milo, The porTraiT of WhisTler's MoTher, Abe Lincoln and Psyche aT The Well. pwge twentyfthrec