Bishop Feehan High School - Flashback Yearbook (Attleboro, MA)

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Sometimes a “sisterly” touch can help open lockers for confused freshmen especially when Sister Suzanne lends a helping hand. a Ss : No more fun in the sun! Thelast combinations to be memorized, : days of August slipped into schedules to be sorted out and September. Opening their then learned. Woe to the freshman mailboxes, students could be who lost his class schedule with his heard sighing when that dreaded rogomnumbers on it! He would envelope arrived, the ‘back to have to risk the foolishness of school notice!’’ Enclosed was a being in the wrong class and bear formal set of rules, including the torture of standing up and school uniform regulations. walking that long distance from his Frustration welled up in the throats seat to the door amidst giggles of those female Feehanites who and smiles. have purchased green corduroy | All too soon the book selling pa nts to no avail! Boys once again, began! Ignoring announcements had to practice their “‘tie-tying that everyone should be in technique.” Every remaining day homerooms, many upper of vacation was savored as that classmen strolled from class to fearful first day closed in! class offering their used books to To the juniors and seniors who the highest bidder. Many shrewd had been through it before, their — business deals were made the first main concern was, “None ofmy week, followed by a mad scramble friends are in any of my classes! to the bookstore by those students What will | do? Whom will | sit who were unable to secure a with?” It isa rare occasion when — second-hand copy of their desired one can find a student totally book. enthralled with his schedule of Two weeks into the school year, classes. and things began to fall into place. For the incoming freshmen and Freshmen acquired a more yet unsure sophomores, the hectic assured air, while seniors began pace of Feehan life can be apretty the tedious task of college awesome project to be tackled. applications. Another school Their pace started off slowly and beginning survived . . . the 20th in gathered speed towards the end of a hopefully long future for Bishop the first month. There were Feehan High. homeroom numbers and locker Sharing a good joke and a chuckle are Sister Margaret and Joseph Smith. “What does this all mean?” Mr. Servant asks Mr. O’Boy who explains his diagrams of auditorium traffic with a touch of humor. Opening of School 27

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When hands aren’t free, feet can do some unexpected things Raymond Tondreault discovers. Rebecca Taylor tries her luck at making the combination work. Bubble gum, Biology and bow ties blend beautifully for Christopher Smith. Peace and tranquility reign in the Religious Education Center for Kelly Cucuzzo, Brian Pinsonneault and Scott Hilsman. 26 Opening of School

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BIG 20...ANOTHER Second coeducational high school in and social activities have expanded to the Fall River Diocese, Feehan was meet the needs of our current student opened September 6, 1961. The Most body. Among the social activities at the Reverend Bishop James L. Connolly, opening were: a Valentine’s dance, a D.D., supported by financial pledges of barbecue and square dance, a Feehan twelve neighboring parishes, undertook Frolic, equal to the spring play of recent the construction. Land was cleared in years, and the Feehan Flash, first June of 1960, and the cornerstone was student newspaper. The first yearbook, blessed on November 11, 1960. Laying of Flashback ’65, had only 92 pages but the cornerstone was commemorated this 'eceived a first class rating rrom Columbia twentieth year when Sister M. Faith paid | Scholastic Press in New York. tribute to the many people who have kept Athletics in the fall was devoted to Bishop Connolly's dream a reality. football; in the winter, it was limited to Dedicated to the memory of the Most basketball. Though there was no team on Reverend Daniel F. Feehan, D.D., the January 8, the first game was scheduled second Bishop of the Diocese of Fall and played on January 18 for a Feehan River, the school was built for 800. The victory! Spring sports consisted of golf, current enrollment is 950. The first Square dancing, volleyball, and softball. A graduating class had 180 students, while glance at the 1981 yearbook will reveal this year’s senior class numbers 225. how the scope of sports has been Though the basic course of studies extended over the years. remains relatively unchanged, the elective Teachers, from Mr. Arthur Anderson to courses, spiritual growth program, Mr. Christopher Servant, have been guidance department, extra-curricular educated at Feehan. Although not exactly 4 ca ry 4 { ‘ea Dreams do come true! Bishop Connolly, assisted by Monsignor Gerard Chabot and the late Father Edward Booth, blesses a classroom at the dedication of the school, March, 1962. Head start — St. Mark’s parish church of Attleboro Falls functioned in our auditorium for two years. Father James McCarthy gives Communion to Ed Shockro at Sunday Mass. First math club, front row: Judith Ney, Kathy Harrington, Donald Langevin, moderator, Mr. Chet Hanewich. Back row: Michael Donnelly, Christopher Servant, Karl Van Den Berghe, Brian Frost. At Senator Ted Kennedy’s Feehan news conference in February, 1969, were teacher Mr. Brian Wallin who was also a reporter for Channel 10, and student reporter, Thomas Burda. From present principal, Sister Mary Faith Harding, to first principal, Sister Marian Geddes (1961- 1966) , go congratulations and best wishes for Sister Marian’s retirement as diocesan school supervisor. “And I can say | was there.” Present guidance counselor and history teacher, Mr. Neil Loew, remembers serving as the Bishop’s altar boy at the blessing of the cornerstone, November 11, 1960. Richard Basile, Emcee for the 1980 Homecoming, is impressed. 28 Bile Birthday ¢