Good Counsel College - Vestigia Yearbook (White Plains, NY)

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classical collections, has conducted a research tour, and has contributed much to the museum of the Collegium Parnasium. We must kindle the fire.-My, listen to it spurt! Look! Jinrikishas. We are in Japan. Do you recall that familiar figure you see working in the Mission fields? It is indeed Cecily O'Connor. For five years she has labored in Christ's vineyard and her harvest has been abundant. At last! We are on domestic soil. America! We will pass by some of the studios while we are in Hollywood. Do you see that luxurious home yonder? It is that of Madame Rita Burns. In the costume world she is known as Ritz. Her intricate styles far excel those of the once popular Adrian, and every fastidious actress adopts them. Now we are surmounting the Rockies and soon we reach the fertile valleys of Montana. Can your eye take in all that vast territory? It is the ranch of Eileen O'Donovan. She is now an author and draws her inspiration from the beautiful expanses of open country. Amid the roaring of trains and planes, the shrieking of whistles and horns, we arrive in New York just in time to see the immense steamer Moderne enter into port. As the gangplank is lowered, the passengers scurry forth. Do you recognize anyone? Why, yes! Madame Barry has returned from a world tour in which she conducted a group of young college students. A photographic flash is seen, as Miss Fechtman, publicity agent of the rotogravure section of the New York Times, obtains a bit of news. Nearby is the social reporter, Mary Driscoll, diligently making inquiries, and noting all the elite on board. The former Miss Johanna Kennedy, active and attractive member of the younger social set, does not escape the re- porter's eye. That laughing young Miss, is Madeline Dinger who has been touring Spain for the past five months. She is the Professor of Spanish at the Johns Hopkins University. We reach the heart of New York City and find ourselves seated within one of the most exclusive penthouses in town. Can you place your charming young hostesses? Indeed you can. Miss McCarthy, most renowned critic of current plays, and Miss Nurenberg, supervisor of the personnel department of one of the elaborate shops in the city. Come now we must be quick, the fire will be out soon. Have you ever seen this building before? It is Rockefeller Center. That office up there belongs to Madeline Wischebrink, leaderof scouts. She has brought a new joie de vivre into the ranks of this organization. My, how those electric lights shine. Here we are along the Great White Way. Do you want to hear a surprising bit of news? Gertrude Mooney is taking Floyd Gibbons, place in spreading the news, and is still continuing to coin those famous phrases of hers. Listen to the uproar in that theatre. Catherine Collins,great comedienne, is there this week in person. She certainly has reached the top of her career. Another person 67 VESTIGIA 1934

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GLOWING EMBERS Draw near to the fire! Gaze down into the embers. Come closer. Now look deep and listen to the tale I have to tell. I will disclose to you the future, ten years from now. Think of it, Puss, I will be one hundred twenty-five years old. VVe are getting a little old! Now watch closely, watch closely and you will see Thirty-two Shadowsi' rise out of the embers, and burst into glowing, living sparks of Fame and Fortune. See: from out of the calm and peace of Good Counsel we soar over the mighty Atlantic to the southern part of Dover, England. Here, on the sandy shores of the English Channel, we find a slim athletic figure cutting the waters. Newspaper men have referred to her as Miss O'Connor, but to you she is none other than Maureen. In ten hours we find her on the foggy coast of Calais, France, proclaiming her vic- torious record. Another Gertrude Ederle in our midst. The live coals are still hovering in France. Ah! What have We here?-We are engulfed in the whirlpool of Parisian life and we are suddenly within Montmartre. But look! Mademoiselle Helen Martin is causing a sensation with her revised inter- pretation of the ancient Bolero. Et plus encore, there is Mademoiselle Anne Potenza who acts as a foreign translator of the languages and customs of these people for the great dancer. Wait! The fire is not clear-ah! yes! The gigantic Alps loom before us,-behold Geneva! the seat of the International Peace Conference. And who is it you see taking an important part? Margaret 0'Neil, Ph.D. She has averted impending war by the adoption of a plan based on Pan-Americanism and the Monroe Doctrine. During her college days this was her favorite topic. While we are in Switzerland we will climb Mt. Zurich, and inspect the astronomical observatory of Professors Ecclesine and O'Rourke. Their startling discovery on the influence of the planet Pluto on Earth has changed the theories of many great scientists. For years they have been studying the heavens, and the world owes much to them. What is this we see now? The blue waters of the Rhine. We seem to land right in Heidelberg. Observe the pandemonium of people at this great center of learning. In the midst of that crowd notice that agile woman. Yes, Frances Tubridy. For the past three years she has been a familiar figure about the campus. Her recent work Compilation of Solid and Plane Geometryn has just been published, and she is at present giving a series of illustrated lectures on her famous publication. What irony of fate brings us to Russia? St. Petersburg is our next point of interest. Meet the famous writer Ruth Rogalin who has resided here in order to absorb the atmosphere and customs of the people, and thus transmit it into her writings. Listen to the crackle of the fire, what apparition shall we see now? The land of Romance and Sunshine, Italia. If you examine the ruins and antiques of ancient Rome you will find Alice Hogan, who through a personal interest in Good Counselfs 66 VESTIGIA 19

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who has succeeded in the way of humor is Hortense Newman. Her latest book on jokes contains one for every minute of the day, for a whole year. Now she is finish- ing a book which explains the origin of more than two thousand witty sayings. Look at that bright and luminous flame. It belongs to the shadow of Rita Cashin. She is the director of the National Debating Convention. Only recently she opened up a school for argumentative discourse, and already it has proved a success. That large office, of the United Fruit Company, is the headquarters of Miss Carolyn Casson, chief executive of the firm. Since she entered ofHce, the output of the company increased from twenty-two percent to fifty-five percent in three years. New York fades into the smoke screen, and we find ourselves on the steps of the Capitol. Beyond those walls, the Misses Kelly and Dunne are receiving honors from the president, because of tactful methods used in settling the Cuban situation. Don't be startled, by that demon of speed. The figure at the wheel is none other than Mary Clancy. That four-hundred horse power car that she is driving is a prize won at some radio contest. She received quite a bit of practice while riding to school from her home. And now neither pedestrians nor motorists are safe. At the Catholic University in Washington we meet Miss Rita 0'Connor, who has become a most able assistant and advisor of the Science Department. In the Language Department of the same university is Margaret Zelt, LL.T. Her book on, How to learn French in Fifty Lessons' is the support of many a young student. I hear church bells ringing. Ah! Here comes the bride, Ethel Coleman, what a picture she makes against the background of Japanese Cherry Blossoms. Long life and happiness to her. And, now there is one more shadow that must be reckoned With. It is that of Inez Webb. But you will find her in any book store or publishing house, for her work Poetical Collectionsnhas brought into America a new trend of thought which has uplifted American ideals and thought. And now the dying flames are smoldering into dust and ashes, it is getting dark and I can tell by the way Puss purrs, that the tale is finished, but let the memory of my story sink deep into your soul, so that you too may accomplish great things as did those Thirty-two Shadows. And ten years from today I hope to continue whence I have left, and by rekindling their sparks-who knows if I have not still greater things to foretell to you? -CAROLYN CASSON 68 VESTlGIA19i34