Annunciation High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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SEPTEMBER: g Fifty Freshmen enlisted in the A.H.S. Army. We met our commanding officer, Sister Felicity, who showed us around our training base. We chose our camp officers, motto, flower and song, and started our training for a victorious year. OCTOBER: The enlistees learned the rudiments of Religion, Algebra, Latin, General Science, English, Art and Civics from their instructors. The retreat, under Very Reverend E. I. McCorkrell, C.S.B., was attended by the Freshmen and proved a great success. We went before the Board of Initiation and the Seniors dealt A faltering blows. NOVEMBER : We experienced our first major encounter with opposition, the Candy Sale, in which we went well over the top, leading all our allies to another victory. DECEMBER : Wfe participated in an anniversary party in honor of our Commander-in-Chief, Monsignor O'Brien. We then departed from camp for a deserved Christmas Furlough. JANUARY: - With the beginning of the year we took tests which proved that our instructors were victorious in teaching us. We conducted the Mission Meeting this month and then settled down to study and hard work. FEBRUARY: The U.F.O., United Freshman Organization, held a Valentine Party which greatly boosted the morale of all. We again won through to victory in the elocution contest due to the efforts of our instructor, Miss Wesley. MARCH: ' Another candy sale and another victory. We again topped our quota. We ransomed five pagan babies, captives of the enemy. APRIL : In the Charity Drive, under the patronage of Our Lady of Victory, we topped all our allies. The year book reporters were chosen, Richard Hoen and Bernard Mulhern. MAY : We attended the junior-Senior Banquet. Everyone reviewed his previous instructions in anticipation of june examinations. JUNE : ,. , Examinations. ' Reports. We look forward to our summer vacation and to occupy the Sophomore Room next year. Thanks to our teachers. Good-bye and Good-luck, Seniors! 54

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FRESHMEN CLASS OFFICERS Preyident . . Vife-Prefidenl . . . Secretary . . . RICHARD A. HoEN ELIZABETH WILSON . RUTH KENNEDY Treomrer . GEORGE HENDRICKS Mono . . . . NIL SINE NUMINE Colon . . BLUE AND GOLD Flower . .......... GARDENIA Song . . .....,... THE SPIRIT or THE FRESHMAN CLASS Melody: You're a Grand Old Flag Ik CLASS SONG Were the Frefhnzon Clem lVe'1'e el high aiming Clam Wefve got fpork, we've got pep, we'11e lI7e'1'e the .ronlelhing new Tlmlfr been added to The sym-fl of Old A.H.S.A livery bear! been true To llne old while and blue, And llvey will for yeezm' lo conleg Bni .rlzozlld all the other! be forgot- Keep your eyef on the Frefhfnezn Clem. 53 got Till?

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Gloria Amadeo Donna Barton Barbara Butler Marie Cassetta Patricia Chalmers Mary jane Coffas Helen Connor Eileen Considine Lois Deffge jean De Plato Edna Dill Marjorie Doyle Helen Dunn Yvonne Durant Dorothy Gutschow Anna Marie Higgins Nancy Kahen Elsie Kennedy Ruth Kennedy Mary Margaret Kilcorse Gertrude Koch Gertrude LaCroix Phyllis Leuthe Phyllis Leiser Alice Maley Ann Maley Agnes McSweeney Rita Myers Rita Peterson Marie Pike Carol Rydzak Mary Jane Taafe Elizabeth Wilson Mary Ellen Wilson Edward Callahan Carmen Felice Michael Hanna George Hendricks THE FRESHMAN CLASS IN H ff rr ff ff H er winforne Jinile maker the Ju: fr rf fr rf fr fr rr If If ff H rf rr H rr rf rr rr rf rr rr H fr ff ff rr fr FF H ff She .rmilef and Jnziler and .rmileJ. Bleued with a joy that .the Of all alive Jhall ever know. She can he a.r wire at we, And witer when the wantr to he. Silence if golden. The Jecret of Jucceff if conttancyf' No heauty like the heauty of the mind. Good nature if the very air of a good mind. Round her .the haf made an atnzotphere of life.' A hlithe rweet girl. Wfhere nothing ordinary dwellff' A carefree rnind nzaket a carefree 'countenance' No storm ever ruffled the current of her life. Still with her life dirtatifjied, eager each new to try. Her tongue if the law of kindnefff' A gloriouf worker. She hat the Jtrange Jweet grace of violent. Nor Jhall .the fail, - ' To blaze her own hrave trail. She wax ever fair and never loud, Had tongue at will and yet war never loud. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. An ounce of nzirth it worth a pound of .forrow.' With a voice like a lark. Shining with juytice and truth, Phyllif if our joy. Preciouf hitf coine in .frnall packagerf' She'll pnd a way. The perfon God Jendr u.r to .ret our heart! freef Kind heartt are more than coro'netJ. 1 never with inzportant air, In converfation overhearf' The proper Jhining of a mul. Alwayr huxy, hut never too huty to help. Your poise if enough of an anfwerf' She har a hright and clever mind. I ani Jlow to study. All day he toilr with zealouf fervor. He doef not fear or Jcornf' Nor .rhall he fail. . Geniiif it an irnrnenre capacity for taking pain.f.' 55 POETRY eject