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

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SUANNE ELIZABETH O'HARE Monterey, California MAJOR: SPEECH MINOR: ENGLISH International Relations Club and Madrigal Singers '66, '67, '68, '69 M.U.N. '66 Troupers '66, '67, '68, '69 Irish Club '67 Drama Productions '66, '67, '68, '69

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MAUREEN O'CALLAHAN The Latin language is built on simple, basic founda- tions but with forms and derivatives to fit an elaborate structure. Maureen is built the same way, with basic, home-grown fin an Orange County citrus grovej beliefs, extended by exposure and experience. In four years Maureen has tried different Ways of life and points of view working towards the formulation. of her own. She has been a part of the community, open to its influence. From being close to people, she has learned the value of the individualis potential. Finding this, she was led to the field of special education in which she hopes to bring encouragement to handicapped children. Maureen's goals, though important, are not always uppermost in her mind. A social animal, she joins in a picnic, wing party or a coke runn to relieve the pressure of half an hour's concentrated study. Ethics' finals and other shared misery are occasions for lavish affairs re- sembling an Irish wake. A frequent visitor, she will drop in and Within the instant become involved in your current problem, gladly wading through the stormy seas of deliberations, and en- joying the ride almost more than the safe arrival at a decision. Maureen has developed her basic personality and one can be sure that her concern, sociability and generosity will always remain, but her complete structure, with all its derivatives, the synthesis of all ber influences, remains to be completed by just living.

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SUANNE O'HARE When the curtain has fallen on our four years at Do- minican College, Suanne O'Hare will not be forgotten. Her love is the theater, and there has not been a musical or drama production which did not include her work, whether she was claiming the spotlight or working behind the scenes. Suanne feels that she has grown much in the past four years. She has come to more of an appreciation of the theater as a whole, and less of a desire for the limelight. She now wants to share her appreciation with others. through the lVlarin Shakespeare Festival for the present, and through high school teaching in the future. Unlike many she knows what she wants, and she is not waiting until graduation to start working for it-she has always been working for it. Suanne is a girl who was never really caught up in the full swing of college life- she was always content and happier to be a little apart from the utypicaln college atmosphere. Because of this she is often misunderstood, but though she is sensitive to the reactions of her audience, she is not afraid to be a little different. Suanne has developed a unique role for herself and remains consistently in character, she is not a follow- er. One suspects that Suanne sees deeply into a person. She is an actress herself and she knows when another per- son is acting, sees what another person really is. If she could rewrite the script of life, loneliness and unhappiness would be deleted, along with closed, un- friendly people. If all the world were a stage, Suamle would be in her element. II3