Elk County Catholic High School - Memories Yearbook (St Marys, PA)

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lTllllS' lllHSS Hllllllll S The clock keeps Ticlcing away The minuTes, we begin To realize ThaT our high school days are coming To an end. They have been days of icy, oT happiness and, here and There, of sorrow. The value oT our educaTion does noT merely depend upon The Tour years of high school, buT goes back To The TirsT grade. Many oT us will undoubTedly recall These splendid school days. The Trials and TesTs of school liTe and liTTle happy momenTs will rank high in The memory oT all oT us. The day we Took Temporary leave oT our parenTs and home To place ourselves under The guidance oT loving Teachers was The beginning of a new, sTrange liTe. We shall Turn back The pages oT hisTory To a morning in SepTember l935. A group oT happy-Taced Ii++le girls made our way up CenTer STreeT. As we neared The Sacred l-learT Church halT oT The group enTered The Sacred I-lear+ School while The remainder, aTTer The cheerTul good-byes, conTinued our walk To Church STreeT. To The SainT Marys School. SomewhaT exciTedly we walked Toward The TirsT grade room. Here, we were greeTed by gay li++Ie girls, ignoranT oT The requiremenTs oT school. We Then proceeded To church direcTed by our good Teachers and accompanied by a second grade pupil. Our minds could noT grasp The significance and imporT- ance of The Mass, buT in Time we undersTood more abouT i+. ,Q ReTurning To school daily, we proceeded To learn our A B C's. We were so proud during ThaT TirsT year when we obTained a holy picTure, a symbol oT meriT. The second year came beTore us quiTe rapidly and we began again as we did The previous year. We were more acquainTed wiTh school liTeiandfTelT a liTTle more conTidenT. The mosT imporTanT evenT oT all was The re- cepTion of our FirsT Holy Communion. ln The Tollowing years we were privileged To see plays direcTed by The priesTs. MoTion picTures were also shown To The sTudenT body. When we reached The TiTTh grade, we were Taced wiTh The diTTiculTies oT TracTions, buT we overcarqe These Trials. We had been pracTicing singing Tor Three years now and showed some improvemenT. ln The Three succeeding Terms The Red Cross pro- grams occupied some oT our Time and added To The pleasure oT The school. PrinTing The school paper was Tun and The cake sales added spiriT and exciTemenT To The ordinary rouTine. Then eighT years were gone and we were proud when we graduaTed Trom Grade School. Our nexT sTep was high school where boTh groups were uniTed. A new kind of school liTe greeTed us- The changing of classes, The sTudenT assemblies, The vari- ous programs and plays. Ohl EveryThing was so exciT- ing and so new! l-low Terribly embarrassed we were when we unconsciously walked inTo The wrong class' rooms. We were green Treshies . How True! BuT so much Tun! lT wasn'T long unTil we were Sophomores, Then Juniors. Our greaTesT delighf was The arrival oT our class rings. Oh! we were Juniors and we really TelT imporTanT now. We had waTched Two classes oT Freshies wander asTray in The halls looking Tor an algebra or a LaTin class. And Then we planned The Junior Prom. We were so happy and proud when we had compleTed The decoraTing. Suddenly our Senior year was upon us. We pursued Home Economics and enioyed iT very much. This was our lasT year Tor school plays, programs, baske+balI games and school dances. l-low much They meanT To us! The day FaTher James announced ThaT our haTs and pennanTs had arrived we acTually iumped Tor ioy. And Then our long-hoped-Tor sweaTers arrived. The yearbook had been sTarTed and we worked Tor iTs success. EveryThing, Then, seemed To sTop and we waiTed eagerly Tor graduaTion. These reminiscences are iusT a parT oT The hisTory of our class. ln our own small way we have also conTribuTed To The hisTory oT our Time-honored Town. Yesl We gradu- aTes oT I947 have made hisTory, buT our Task is noT yeT compleTed. We musT conTinue climbing The ladder which we have begun To build so ThaT our names shall be included in The records of worThwhile TuTure evenTs. PaTricia Sunder.

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ANNUAL RENEWAL OF ENTHRONEMENT OF SACRED HEART GN Friday, OcTober TwenTy-TiTTh, in preparaTion Tor The FeasT OT ChrisT The King, The inspiring renewal oT The enThronemenT OT The Sacred l-learT oT Jesus Toolc place in The basemenT oT our high school. The alTar which was decoraTed by The Seniors was beauTiTully done in a red and whiTe color scheme. The ceremony was inspiring and is sure To leave a liTe-long impression on every sTudenT. Reverend FaTher James read The EnThronemenT prayers. ATTer a hymn had been sung and The AposTles' Creed reciTed by all, FaTher gave a Timely Talk on The many beneTiTs derived Trom such an enThronemenT. l-le encouraged devoTion such as This To be held in every home, For , he said, ChrisT is cerTain To shower l-lis blessings on ail homes ThaT consider l-lim Their King and Leaderf Sarah Hoehn 0 27

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