Blessed Sacrament Academy - Silva Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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'Only a Volunteern CDed1cated to the Seniors who frequent The Catholic Community Center? I Why didn't I walt to be drafted And be led to the train by a band And put in a claim for exemption On, why did I held out my hand? Why d1dn't I wait to be cheered Why d1dn't I wait for the banquets? For the drafted men got all the credit While I'm only a volunteer. Nobody gave US banquets, Nobody said kind words The puff of the engine and the grind of the wheel! Was the only gocd-bye that I heard. Then off for the training camp hustled, To be trained for one whole year, Oh My! Oh My! and Oh Me! For I was only a volunteer. And perhaps some day in the future, When my little boy sits on my knee, And asks what I did in the great war And his eyes have to look up to me I will have to look into those eyes, That at me so trustingly peer, And tell him that I wasn't draQfed-T- That I was ONLY A.VOLUNTEER! iiiiliiiiiiiiiliwiiiiwWNWWHMNWNWWNMWMNNW 4940 + , CONSIDER THE HAMIZER It keeps its head, It doesn't fly off the handle, It keeps pounding away, gt finds the point, then drives it home. t looks at the other side, too 6, And then clinches the matter. It makes mistakes, but when it does, it starts all over It is the only knocker in the world that does any good If you are inclined to lose your head, and fly off the handle Consider the Hammer! 1 --The Hardware World.

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1955 6 LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF BEXAR KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT we, the Senior Class of 1942, of The Blessed Sacrament Academy, in compliance with the time-honored custom of the graduates do make and publish this our Last Will and Testament, hereby revok- ing and making void all former wills by us at any time theretofore made. FIRST: To our beloved chaplain, we bequeath our deepest grati- tude 1n appreciation for his many efforts in our, behalf with the sincere hope that his future classes will have a wider knowledge of Church History than we of the past. SECOND: To Sister M. Joseph, we leave our heartfelt thanks for many happy hours spent under her supervision at dear old Blessed Sacrament Academy. ' THIRD: To the faculty, we willingly bequeath a large amount of affection, a smaller store of intelligence, and a little genius . We'd like to leave our many happy memories, but we'd rather take them with us to ponder over during reminiscent hours. FOURTH: LASTLY to our successors, the JUNIORS, we gratefully WILL the following valuable estates: DONOR LEGACY HEIR A. Neri Intellectuality Jean M. Hurley N ri ' Raven tresses Anna M. Furlong bley The Catholic Center Mary Jo Bracht Young I' Serious ness Mary Peterson Betty A. Jenkins Witty remarks Helen Kappelann La Nita Snow Dignity Essie Cotham Eleanor Mitche 1' Artistic ability Mary Fernandez Evelyn Jung , Graciousness Frances Tilger' IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands this thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-two, A.D.1-THE SENICR CLASS OF Signed: Edith Young Gloria Neri Betty Ann Jenkins

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