Dominican Convent High School - Veritas Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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a state of confusion, wearing our uniforms in a peculiar manner, and clattering across the porch were not the proper things to do. As the day for first report cards drew near, a feeling of fear gripped all forty-six of us. Do we really have to go up in front of the entire student body P asked someone. Is it really as bad as all that? After an endless wait, we suddenly found ourselves in front of everyone, and our names were being called off. Knees shaking, we slowly made our way up to receive our first report cards. After this ordeal was happily over, most of us realized that we had let our imaginations run away with us and that receiving report cards wasn't nearly as terrible as it had seemed. In the early fall we chose our class officers and class colors. Our officers were: Clare Rorick, president, Sandra Hannum, vice- presidentg Gaye Hipsley, secretary, Judy Kyne, treasurer, Barbara Dwelly, day student treasurer. The complicated problems that arose when we decided that our class colors were going to be exceptionally outstanding and different from all the others were finally solved when red and gray, suggested at one of our class meetings, met with overwhelming approval. As Thanksgiving approached, we were busily at work. What shall we charge for this-or that Pl' someone asked. They're so darling, I'm sure they'll sell like hotcakes! someone else ex- claimed. Perhaps you may have already guessed that we were planning for the Bazaar. Our booth, we decided, would be a quaint toy shop in Germany, Hoffman's Toy Shop. There we sold toys of all sorts, but our specialty was a large, comical Humpty Dumpty doll. Near Saint Patrick's Day, in the early part of March, we enter- tained the Student Body by giving our Hrst annual party. Along with other types of entertainment, we presented an amusing one- act play concerning a young Irish boy and girl. Hanify Hall, scene of the party, was elegantly decorated for the occasion, and we found it almost more fun to give parties than to go to them. We also discovered that entertaining is quite a bit more work! If the first semester went by quickly, the second semester seemed to go twice as fast. Of course, I am confident that we are happy to become sophomores as, to us, this means that at last we are no longer the youngest class, but I am even more sure that every- one will agree that our freshman year has been the happiest that we have ever experienced. GNEAL MCGIBBON '60 Cbafiivzg by live pool are frerbnzmz day .l'fll6l'6I7fJ' Bfzrbfzrfz Ray- burn, Kaibleewz Kimzey, Pnlriria Glry, Francine Carlro nm! Ellen Corlello. U51 if r The J'Zl77Z77l67'l70IlJ'8 provider ez relaxing cZll710.fpb67'6 for foyce Lflliorzlrzirze, Conrlance Oldr, Patricia HICk777d7Z, Mary Ellen McKenzie, Peggy Poerchl. fl Mary jane Toopr, Knlbleerz Riley, Mary T. Mal- ley, and Zlflezry K. Mfzlley energeticrzlly warh dirber in Agnimzr kilrbezz. ff1'l'LZ77gfi,7g flowery before the frame of Om' Lady 0f Fnlifmz in Sim! y Hall are Linda Pedermnz, A gfzer Delga- dillo, Ronnie Vlzllergfz, Cnlheriize Fogarty, and Brigid lMCD67'77I0fi. , D , , .fi L2 S5 5, at .Y ffjf My is nn I, is J . -Q it 1 Qu? ef in I V . Wie i' 'ii lf' '

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r Obrervizzg the Ameriemz Eclzzmfion Week lazfllefifz board are Lynne Gfzriboili, Melanie DiLmv6, Rand y Kezbrz, Leona DeSim0ne, and jznze Smith. Tmeliliomzlly rl frerlamfzzz lark, Hpzzllivzg away rbnirf' here ir performecl by Mfzrilyfz Pelirrez, C erelin Sf1lf1Lfer1'if1, Befliriee Toolzy, Florefzrifz Gezreifz, Cbfzrlefle Elmore, Grzeal MCGlbb072. Frerbmezn class ojieerr fzzrl y K yne, Barlmrfz Dwelly, Gaye Hiprley, Clare Roritk, mul Sezmly Hamzzmz rpenl expe- clezlly bury clnyr in Sain! Tlyomfzr Hall. Freshman Class The date, September 10, 1956. The time, midafternoon. The place, Dominican Convent, San Rafael, California. Up the long flight of gray stairs and across the porch to Saint Thomas Hall clamored a group of happy girls, busy footsteps and gay laughter soon echoed through the building that for the past three months had been exceptionally quiet. Among all these chattering girls were those of us who were the freshmen, and who rather cau- tiously made our way into the dormitory and, after what seemed an endless search, succeeded in finding our own alcoves, We fresh- men were girls from all over, from Chile, Honduras, Nevada, all parts of California, and, when the day students joined us the next day, from just around the corner. For us, as we took our first look at our new home for the coming school year, this was a strange and exciting experience. But soon each bare alcove began to develop its own special appearance as red and green, plaid and plain colored bedspreads appeared, a strange assortment of wild and domesticated animals emerged from trunks and began to add a colorful and decorative appearance to alcoves. Before long the whole dormitory was a cheerful and homey place where girls who were to be good friends during the next four years began the happy task of getting acquainted. From that very first day of school, we heard about the First Rally and the Roundheads and the Cavaliers. just what these names stood for remained a mystery until, through our intensive curiosity, we learned that they were the two athletic teams, and that very soon we were to be chosen members of one or the other. On the night of the First Rally, our anxiety increased minute by minute as the time for drawing names drew near. Finally, when each of us was officially chosen a member of a team, the one we preferred or not, we secretly vowed to do our best for our team in every possible way. September 22, the night of the Welcome Party, we freshmen at last ceased to be new girls and became full-fledged old girls. As our contribution to the party, we presented a skit in which we portrayed ourselves as the bewildered freshmen that we were, encountering some of our seemingly major difficulties, As the innocent newcomers who always got ourselves into trouble without, according to ourselves, doing anything wrong, we demon- strated that we had already learned that leaving our alcoves in Rorfzlie Hezrrmz elemomlmfer ez lemzir rlroke for Patricia Selel-' ner, julie H eller, anal Magda Lamya. t2-41 ' lr .. , .- -.Y

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r26J O11 Romry Snmlfzy Afzgelico Hall if l1'm1.rfo1'mecl info rl chapel I0 lhfz! .rlzzdentr of the Lower Srhool, U pper School, and College iogelher may offer prfzyerr to Om' Lady. Thir year Falher Slmzley Parmimzlo, O.P., rpohe to ur and then gave Befzedirfiozz of lhe Blerred 5'1zc1'r1me21l. Confraternit and Sodalit C077f1'IZl6?7'77lly Prerizlefzl Mary Alire Thornton mul Sodalify P1'e.s'iflen1f Phyllis' Grirrim al lhe Lozzrder Grotto, where lhe Rosary Smzdoy Procelpfiovz hegim. As each page of the yearbook is turned, a new aspect of Dominican is revealed, the entire contents viewed col- lectively summing up our life at school. Yet, beneath the hockey games and cheerleading, the struggle to make honor roll and the fun of class picnics, lies an intangible something that somehow defies description or pictures, inaccurately defined, it could be called spirit, but rather it is spirit with a difference. Basically this spirit depends upon our awareness of God's will and, still further, of our consequent responsi- bilities in school as students. This is the purpose of Confraternity and Sodality, for it is through our mem- bership in these that each of us can learn to deepen her faith and mature in its practice, applying it to our lives here as students. The hurried search for veils and missals after the Mass bell rings, the quickened walk across the chapel porch on icy mornings, to say nothing of a weekend at Bolinas, are all part of membership in Confraternity, and yet the real value, of course, lies solely in partici- pation in the Mass. For from no other act do such powerful graces result, our participation in the Holy Sacrifice is the best possible way to begin each day with new enthusiasm and purpose, Sodality contributes in a different yet valuable way to our school life, providing further opportunity for Catholic thought and action. Each member of Sodality also belongs to a smaller group: Missions, Art, Politics, or Literature. The purpose of these groups varies in that each tries to take a different aspect of life and, through reading, projects, and, most important, group discussion, learn to understand and apply Christian values and standards.