Catholic High School For Girls - Silver Sands Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE 1951 SILVER SANDS SISTER ST. MICHAEL, S.S.J. For twenty-one years, Sister St. Michael was the inspired moderator of Silver Sands. Under her stimulating guidance, outpourings of the hearts of generations of Hallahanites were fashioned into words of beauty. Today's book is the product of her ever deepening interest. It never lessened. Even in her last illness she followed the shaping of the present edition. Pencil poised, she read eagerly most of the copy in these pages, and in the margins put the tangible seal of her approval in her generous appraisals of Different! and Well done! Her spirit is here, permeating these lines. It is in loving memory and gratitude, then, that we dedicate to Sister St. Michael this special 1951 issue of Silver Sands -our Lady Book.'5 9

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THE 1951 SILVER SANDS f' Q HE FLAME of her mortal life is gone. She who knew the pulsing beauty of God's great world, And saw the stamp of His divinity On snowflake, Bower, and sky, Who read His glory in the silences of night And in the mighty roar of tempests- Is gone. The flame that fed her being She kept not for herself, But with lighted tapers in her dedicated hands, She led the way of the young Along the unsure paths of life, Guiding, instructing for eternity, Revealing to their eyes the sight of Magic easements flung wide to the beauty That belongs to Him alone. The flame has Hiclcered and died. Gathering about her the fullness of her years of devotion, She has gone to meet Him To Whom, in the promise of her youth, She gave herself in triple bonds. Hallahan mourns herg Yet in our hearts there is joy That she, who for so long Held high the lamp for our feet, Has but left To trim the eternal lamps of heaven. 8

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'PHE 1951 S1I.vER SANDS RAIN 0N HER HEART ICK HAD left two months ago. Cathy remembered how it had rained that afternoon when he board- ed the train that was to take him away from her. She remembered, too, how the rain had tit the mood of her gloomy heart. How sad she had been to sec him go! How she had missed him in the last eight weeks! Cathy went over the wonderful times they had had together. She had met Dick at a church dance, and he had asked her to go out with him a few weeks later. She had accepted readily, for she had always thought he was nice and so handsome. They had gone to the movies that Saturday night. After the show they had laughed and joked between mouth- fuls of hamburger. They had so much fun that night, and a few months later they were going steady. Their lirst kiss! How thrilled she had been! She had never realized how gentle Dick could be. She smiled now at the times they had gone swim- ming with the crowd and how mad she had been when he wouldn't stop dunking her. That Christmas morn- ing when they had gone to the Nativ- ity Mass and received Holy Commun- ion together was a precious memory. She would never forget how they had looked at each other upon leaving the By Jean Gravelle, '51 church, suddenly realizing the forti- fication their love for each other had received. The next night-her lovely new gown, Dick's handsomeness in his rented tuxedo, his whispered words, You are the sweetest fiower of all as he pinned a beautiful corsage on her shoulder-all this spelled the won- der of her Senior Prom. How proud she had been to show all her friends at college the lovely compact he gave her for Christmas with From Dick to Cathy engraved on the back! He was always so thoughtful. At the january sleighing party, a stranger would have thought they were ten years old. That wonderful night in May when he told! her he had a surprise for her-could she ever forget? It was tl1e twenty-seventh of the month, and it was the most beauti- ful ring Cathy had ever seen. Dick had said, T hat is, if you want me . . . As if she could or would ever say no. They had made plans that night to be married the next spring. She recalled now the love in his eyes when she had shown him her diploma. And what fun they had had at the mad round of graduation parties! Then in June, on a far-off peninsula in the Pacific, war had erupted again. The communists were on the march in Korea. Dick, being in the Army