Avila University - Anthem Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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1956 Four members of the Class of 56 passed botli high school and col- lege days at St. Teresa ' s. Pat Meagher, Sheron McQueenv, An toinette Kopp, and Margaret Mur- phy here indulge their long-felt impulse to pull the bell rope. It is a long time since this bell called young ladies to class at old St. Teresa’s at 12th and Washington. It now stands on the stairway- landing in the Music and Arts Building, a perpetual temptation to these students of new St. Teresa’s, who have seen it for eight years (seven for Antoinette), but who never quite collected the nerve to ring it. The bell is more than a temptation, however. It stands as a reminder that the name of “St. Teresa’s has represented high quality in the education of women for nearly a century.

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Class of ’56 B.S. in Nursing Dolores Vallejo Celestine Jenkins Shiloh Maquire Susan Turgeon Barbara Kramps Paula Main Patricia Zimmerman Cum Laude Patricia Meagher Mary Haney

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College Day . . . came on October 14 this vear, and was the largest ever. The schedule was the same— proces- sion, investiture, Holy Mass, brunch, singing, car contest, and parade. But there were so manv Teresians that tables for brunch were set up in the hall . . . students moved into the cafeteria to hear the address by Rev. Arthur Tighe . . . seniors spent a hectic evening-before, trying to remember their songs of the past three years . . . car contest was so large that double-file had to be effected at the O far end of the circle . . . for a while it looked like a toss-up between “She Goes to St. Teresa’s and She’s Planning a Career,” “She’s an All-American Girl,” “She Prays, Studies, and Plays, and “She’s Going to See ‘Cinderella.’ ... The freshmen and “Cinderella finally won (remember Sylvia Shoemaker and Mary Margaret Myers, the Mean Stepsisters with the giant, false eyelashes?) . . . police escorts gave the parade an official tone . . . then back to the cafeteria for ice cream, coke, and a cake box to the faculty. . . . The freshmen were now really freshmen, the nursing students reallv nursing students, and College day was over.