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

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THERESA ANNE MACDONALD Stockton, California Muon: ENGLISH MINOR! SPANISH Community Service '68, '69 Music Club '68, '69 Special Events Committee '69 SCTA '69 International Students Club '66 Spanish Club '69

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LAURIE LYNCH Laurie's life falls into place-not somehow, but by sheer dint of effort. Hence the well-deserved sense of sat- isfaction as deadlines are met. Half-classicist, half-ro- mantic, Laurie marshals her imaginative impulses, cuts out purple passages and aims at communication. She has managed to produce the Carillon and Firebrand with imagination and individuality, hut without loss of tra- dition. A journalist must be realistic, noticing the facts, and not the frills. Laurie usually complies with this image, but cannot help straying into a dream world every so often. Although ordered, her life is not without its undisci- plined areas-Sunday picnics, zoos, children's litera- ture, and shopping trips are pleasures that reveal much. Laurie's affinity for antiques is romantic, her taste in clothes classic. Villagered and Lanzed from head to toe, she is contemporary yet far from faddish. Laurie is charmingly refreshing-some say naive. She expects to have honesty met with honesty, truth with truth. A credulous Oh really is her response to the most fan- tastic statement. Realizing that she has been deceived her face pinks a shade Father Blank would relish. On the whole a conciliatory person, she is the means hetween abrasive extremes. Reluctant to be involved in arguments, her anger is vented on people and subjects safely removed. Neither Brother Antoninus nor William Wordsworth will ever know what a formidable foe they have. Laurie aims at the via media, she deserves the hap- piness that lies in an o1'dered life. V 83

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ANNE MACDONALD Anneis gentle appearance and calm manner belie her exuberant warmth and spontaneity. Unobtrusively, she watches others dash by. Shyness is only skin-deep thoughg in conversation Anne bubbles with delight over all things alive. Literature and music are her pleasures for Anne values the essence and feeling of things? She relaxes while pouring over Browning with the musical poetry of Rod lVlcKuen in the background. Her passion for the senti- mental ballads of lVlcKuen, however, is in no way her sole mental therapy. Regularly she receives one dozen red roses-a morale booster much envied in Pennafortl Happiest wherever there are good friends, Anne shares her exuberant and imperturbable nature. Always willing to start a song or, better yet, physical exercises at mid- night, she is definitely impulsive. She is eager to go bare- foot at any opportunity. Anne plans her future home around big friendly dogs and little childreng she delights in quantities of both. Compassionate and warm, she is genuinely able to share the highs and lows experienced by others. 'GPeople- watch- ingi' has taught her much. Believing with Bacon that It is a true and miserable solitude to want true friends without which the world is but a wilderness, Anne thrives on her relationships with those she loves. Her world will never be a wilderness. 85