Cecilian Academy - Signet Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HA DIE I TH The WhiTe ChrisTmas Ball! These magic words were heard oTTen among us as we planned Tor our Senior Prom. We sTarTed worlcing early in OcTober and discussed several orchesTras and hoTels before we decided on Alex BarTha and The BellevueeSTraTTord. December 3OTh did seem very Tar away Then, buT almosT beTore we lcnew iT, we were dressing in our Tormals and ready To leave. We paid our TradiTional call on The Sis- Ters aT Cecilian beTore The dance and proudly Tools our escorTs To The chapel. There, we breaThed a prayer Tor success and conTinued To E IEHT , The Bellevue. PaTricia FiTzgerald, our chairman, wiTh Margery Ann Nahill and EsTher lVlarTin, co-chairmen, meT us in The powder room and promised us a big surprise when we enTered The ballroom. We pinned on our orchids, gave our hair a Tinal paT and ioined our daTes aT The door. As we enTered The ballroom, sTars were Twinkling on The ceiling and blue lighTs played on shimmering icicles. IT You Were The Only Boy in The World we had played Tor our escorTs. The dance ended-one perTecT nighT added To our memory boolcs. A group oT seniors crowd around The bandsfand To lisTen To The dreamy music of Alex Barfha and his orchesTra. OpposiTe, The Senior Prom commiTTee poses beTween dances. The huge success oT The dance was largely Through The work of This aciive commiTTee. ZS -Y Top: General view of The ballroom. Middle: Hosfs and HosTesses-Mr. Fred SmiTh, Jr., Mrs. Fred E. SmiTh, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. J. Kibbe Breene, Mr. Edward T. ljlahill, Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Curcio, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Canuso, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. John M. Ansman, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Granahan, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Lamb, Mrs. William H. Marfin, Mr. Joseph MarTin. Below leTT: EsTher MarTin, Terri Canuso, Anne SchulTz, Margery Na- hill primping before mirror. Right: PaTricia Fihgerald, chairman, wiTh Alex BarTha and escorf, George Cippon.

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HETHLEHE is 8 66 Si Jeanne Rabbi+T, Louise Burgoyne, Pafricia Shields, Mary ,V 1, 4. .151 i Devlin, BeTTy HamilTon, Barbara Schaeffer and Claire ' ' , . W f- - Cisario sing The ChrisTmas carols leaves his posT aT The sTable and while perTorm- ing his duTies relaTes his sTory To The shepherds on The hillside. They some adoring To The man- ger and There They meeT The Three kings who have Come Trom Tar-OTT lands. Guided by The wondrous sTar, They had searched Tor a long Time To Tind Their Saviour, and now aT lasT Their search was ended. The play harks back To medieval Times again and Jared is awakened by his moTher, Nance ReinharT as Jared, The liTTle boy in One NighT in Befhlehem lisfens smilingly as his mofher, Nance LuTher, Tells him age-old sTory of The Chrisf Child. . . . .3 'ml . ,ii f .f If1f,f ' -, ,Q A ,gpgkmu ', ' - Ar -z . The True beauTy OT The ChrisTmas spiriT is clearly seen in Jared's Tace as he Tells his moTher oT his dream. The ChrisTmas play aT Cecilian would be in- compleTe wiThouT The TradiTional Tableau. AT This point The members oT The Glee Club sang The ChrisTmas carols, The scene was inspiringly beau- TiTul and iT Tilled The girls wiTh The True spirii oT ChrisTmas. Carmela Pascuzzi gave a splendid performance as The Town Crier in The play. Before and affer, she wen? Through The audience awakening The sleeping Town To hear her words. S

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