Dominican College of San Rafael - Firebrand Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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JANET MATHILDA McDONELL To Graduate in August major: FRENCH minors: art, science Vice-President Art Club. ' 47 French Club Albertus Magnus

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MATILDA McCULLOUGH A yfl ATILDA ' S name seems incongruous, for there 1 V llis nothing Matilda-ish about her. She is Tillie to most of her friends, and there is a legend that she once blushed when asked if her name was really Matilda . Tall and slender, she has a fair, well- scrubbed look. She has a charming smile, but her really distinctive feature is her widow ' s peak, darkly pointed against a very white brow. Her room does not seem an index to her. It is aus- terely bare; she has the alloted college furnishings and no more. The only note of color is made by the row of books across her desk. The books include Spanish texts and Spanish novels, history texts and historical novels. She likes history because she is in- terested in people, Spanish perhaps because she has in her a strain of Basque. Her memory serves her not only in her history classes, but it helps to make smooth her social paths, for she has the royal gift of always remembering names and faces. Quite natu- rally she is well-liked; freshmen and sophomores are as attached to her as are the juniors and seniors. 39

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JANET MATHILDA McDONELL THE yellows and especially the pale pinks Janet loves to wear are indicative of her person- ality. She definitely is not a pale pink person, but she loves opposites. One ' s first thought about her is that she is alive; one sees it in the curl of her hair, the look of her eye, and her long stride, although she can move with a softly feminine grace. She has a keen intellect and distinguished herself in her Senior year by using it remarkably well. She plays golf and likes to read. She prides herself on the logic by which she makes other people change their minds; her friends call it plain persuasion. Her intel- lect, as might be inferred, is never boring. One happy effect of it is her rare ability to laugh at all her room- mate ' s jokes. 41