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

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Come On Girls, Give Your Fathers A Break Remember the television special named “The Day After?” This theme Is certainly true for today because after a long month of hard work, | can finally say that | survived the 1984 Annual Father-Daughter Dance held at the Sheraton in Mansfield. But you say there isn't any hard work involved in attending this affair? Under the instruction of my Se lb let me call her Bertha so she won't be embarrassed by what she calls my lack of social grace, | toiled and slaved to reach her ultimate goals of perfection for me. In order that | would do it properly at the dance, Bertha allowed me to pull out her chair for her at all meals. Once. during the entire two weeks of chair pull- ing, she even complimented me on my performance. Needless to say, | was shocked! Next Bertha concentrated her energies on teaching me to dance. She Showing off their many moves throughout the night are Cherie Phipps and her father. rated me “a complete failure,” then ranted and raved for hours about how was she supposed to bring her father to a dance when he couldn't dance. Somehow | managed to talk her out of hiring someone else for the dance and | penuoges her to be my date again! emarkable, right? However, she would only agree on one condition: that | would sprint to my chair the moment a fast song came on. | assured Bertha that | would, and we were a couple again. Finally, March 31, 1984, the Og night came. | was nervous and excited at the same time and couldn‘t understand how Bertha could be so calm about ev- erything. Upon entering the Sheraton, | took Bertha’s coat and proceeded to find the coatroom — lucky me — it only took thirty and a half minutes. Next we had our pictures taken. | felt very self- conscious under all the lights and mil- a Shoes off and letting go are Melissa Noble and her father. lions of people watching didn’t help matters! We joined some of Bertha’s friends, Thelma and Heidi in the dining room where we enjoyed a delicious dinner of chicken and rice. The girls gabbed away, but | noticed that not many fathers were talking. Finally, they cleared the floor for dancing; | was almost paranoid that | would do every- thing wrong. The band was excellent — played mostly slow songs. On the few fast ones they did play, most of the fathers abandoned the dance floor so | did not feel like a loner. All in all, the evening was a success. Can you believe I’m actually looking forward to next year’s dance? | just hope Wt ee will still want me to be her ate! Enjoyi ng a slow dance are Lauren and Mr. Wegerct. Father-Daughter Dance 7

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Mirrored memories will glow forever for dancing dads and daughters. ae Sf LAD OOD FS ‘atm Dancing the night away Louise Moon and her ne enjoy the attention of being royalty for the night. Relaxing for a spell, Joan McDonagh and her dad enjoy a little conversation. 6 Father-Daughter Dance

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Our Cafeteria? Astounding Transformation Who could believe that it was the same cafeteria? There had never been streamers, or foil “kissed”, or paper flow- ers on the wall during lunch! The night of the Fresnman Sophomore Social was a night of transformation all-around. Our once “lifeless” cafeteria glittered with Social decor, a simple dance seemed like an underclassman prom, and our classmates tossed aside Feehan garo to don fancy dresses and suits and ties. Between dashes from the tables to the dance floor, there was time to chat with friends, admire flowers, dresses, and dates, and snack on the quickly dimi- nishing bowls of popcom and pretzels. When they were tired of dancing, they could go stand in line for a photo- graphic souvenir of their evening. No, this was no ordinary night at Feehan, that was obvious enough. There were no meetings to attend, no upperclassmen to deal with, and in most cases, no homework to do! Every- one took advantage of the idea of the Social’s theme, “We Got Tonight”. As the first strains of the song reached the ears of those exhausted couples resting at the tables, the dance floor was once again filled, excitement filled the air, the BG was able to “Capture” the hearts of all. Dizzy with excitement of the evening, Melissa Noble and Neil Malik save their energy for the next song. 8 Fr Soph Social Enjoy! Andrea Richardson, Edward Foley, Doug- las Dobson, Amy Barca and date, and Steven Kelley trip the light fantastic.