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

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Discovering the beauty of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the ses are Christopher Kelley, Maura Toole, Cristen McCormick, Maureen Harrigan, and Christina Sibilia. “I'd love to see the flowchart for this place” thinks Sister Patricia Rahaim while touring the Tower of London. , 4: ‘ s 7 : goer } e c . “We love England this much” proclaim Felice Indinoli, Amy Cronin, Laurie Simoneau, Kristen Felici, Tina Perry at the Barbizon Plaza, London. 18 Spring Fling

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; FULL HOUSE AT LAST We stood in a circle, hands linked, crying through the prayer. Mr. Ksen walked slowly around, embracing in tum each performer in “Annie,” his last Feehan show. We were his final edition, the last rendition of his five years here, and we wanted only to do him justice we certainly could do no more. What such an anist can build in five years! Anyone who had watched him design a prop or direct a scene knew what he was leaving in Feehan and in us. We showed him we were listening the day he taught us to “let the heart out’ — | remember his shoulders were soaked with tears. We milled about awhile, “psyching up” to the last scene of an act in all our lives, for we ached fo play it well. We were waiting apprehensively for the last “You Won't Be an Orphan For Long.” Daddy Warbucks shows his soft side in a song for Annie. dream to come true before the curtain went up. Since his arrival, Mr. Ksen had held up many goals for us fo strive for: professionalism, acclaim, the satisfac- tion of doing our best, all had been reached along the way. The only stan- dard left was the hardest. When we per- formed to miserable audiences sprin- kled over a few rows he had said “play it Bene balcony is full — someday it will e. Annie, perhaps more than any of us, felt the fension of being inexorably drawn faster and faster to curtain time. As she sat like a patient beneath the operating makeup artists, | remember seeing the concentration on her face as she mentally checked every prop, every detail, every responsibility she had to the production which she had spent so much of the last few months working on. Suddenly Mr. Ksen burst into the room, knelt next to Annie and said somethin to her. “Hey you guys,” she explained, “he’s opening the balcony!” Through the open door | saw our distinguished director doing a jig on one of the onohan’s bunk beds, his face flushed and exhilarated with exultation. Then, almost as if time were being sucked away between the hurried glances of the clock, it was time for the prayer, time for places, time for curtain, time for entrance. As | came out | couldn’‘t help but look — | had to see, with my own eyes, an audience in the balcony. | thanked God for his justice and played my heart out. Not just for high standards or acclaim, not just for ourselves, but for Him, and Al Ksen. Finale! Annie (Amy Cronin), “Daddy” Warbucks Brian DeCubellis), Sandy (Kristen Felici), Onphans Tina Perry, Stacey Wall, Cheryl Riley, Maria Cas- tro, Lori Simoneau and Michelle Fisk), Grace Far- rell (Lynne St GUL and Lieutenant Ward (David Reynolds) share a warm Christmas celebration. eh consoles the hungry, tired fellow orphan olly. Annie 17

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Travel Bug Bites in Spring | stood above a narrow, wrought-iron fire escape three hundred feet above the river Avon. As dawn raised the grey crags out of the mist, a strong, fresh wind combed the foxes’ footprints out of the dewy wildgrass behind them. A deep breath of English coutryside air ... it was better than a Peppermint Patty commercial. Mr. and Mrs. Haskins, Mrs. McLaughlin, Sister Dianne Roncarati, Sister Patricia Rahaim and the rest of us in England weren’‘t the only ones abroad on rest and relaxation last April. Miss Mahoney, Mrs. Bensson and r. Kazarian commanded the disciplined France-Switzerland expedition. Reputed to be among the best educationally enriching experiences in many of the Awaiting their fate on the steps to the Tower of London’s dungeon are Michelle Drury, Andrew Hunt, Robert Nicastro, Ruth Oliveira, Mr. James Haskins, Sharon Carey, Theresa Leston, Guy Calkins, Deborah Reilly, Glenn Saunlier, Jay Conlon. participants’ lives, this trip truly cultivated an appreciation for intercultural exchange. The smallest F.E.F. (Feehan Expeditionary Force}, fielded in February 1984, carried out perhaps the most exciting mission (certainly the one under the most exciting admirality). They explored the wonders of civilization’s cradle under the distinguished leadership of Sister Enda Costello and Mrs. Eleanor Kenney. Five kids went to Greece. Rumors of Mrs. Kenney’s reducing the Minotaur to tears by sternly administering eleven straight Latin II quizzes still circulate in awe-hushed tones among the students. About that fire escape in Avon — eventually someone pried my fear-paralyzed fingers from the Full speed ahead! Across the Saronic Gulf sailed Derrick Aubin, Esther Caran, Monica Cistermelli, and Maureen Burke. Not pictured is Daniel Pearson. decrepit, madly swaying framework and pulled me in, gibbering in semiconscious hysteria. Luckily, the effects were confined to a permanent acute fear of fire escapes. | spells my senses in time to pack for the Chorus trip to Toronto, which left by “motorcoach” (bus) the day after the trip from England returned. Two interminable bus rides, three performances, one competition against a half dozen Mormon Tabernacle Choir replicas from high schools in Texas, and many hugs and laughs later, the last set of prodigal Feenhanites rumbled into the parking lot. “Mom,” | swore, “I’ve had enough traveling for twenty years! But | hear the band is coming with us to Wildwood, New Jersey ...” On the “Couchette Ride” to the Midi are Mrs. Scarlatelli, Mr. Kazarian, Kathy Yazbak, Kirsten Kryla, Kristen Scarlatelli and Miss Cathy Mahoney. Spring Fling 19