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

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Dressefl up for Easier In praise of Hur Blesserl Mother -i s. But like delivered: and Hnally. the sehedule for the examinations was presented to u all others. they. too. passed away with few easualties and then Betty Sehneider began her relentless seareh for manuscripts for the Vox Sludentium, the sophomore puhliea- tion. liehearsals were in progress for the Lenten play, The Cloth of Sendony, in whieh Nlargaret Camp played the leading role. ln March on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. our first philosophy symposium was given. Many of us were memhers of that learned eirele. The first week of May hrought the sophomore danee along with rumors of peaee in liurope. A few days later those rumors were eonfirmed and immediately special serv- iees of thanksgiving were held in the eollege ehapel. Throughout the entire year, we had offered partieular prayers for peaee and students kept eonstant adorations hefore the Blessed Saerament for the intentions of Our Holy Father. There were May Day devotions throughout our Blessed Mother's month and on Mothelfs Day we were host- esses to all the sodalities of East W'estehester on wlorld Wlide Sodality Day. The program for eommeneement week kept us well oeeupied the first week of June. We sang and played games on field day, enjoyed the strawherry festival, and eagerly watehed the seniors hestow pine walk on the juniors. On elass day we presented to the graduates our ivy ehain and Maria Staek, our President.. wished them well in the name of all of us. The following day we saw the seniors reeeive their diplomas from His Emi- nenee, Cardinal Spellman. Not long after the strains of Pomp and Cireumstaneeu had faded. we said good-lnye to Cood Counsel for the summer. 20

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,.,- 4, :- Our pine tree almost reached its fullness re- fleeting our own progress toward our goal. Septemher 1945 found us hack at Good Coun- sel as mature juniors. The first thing we did was to eompare notes on how we had eelehrated V-J Day. Mail hegan to hring shouts of 'LHe's eoming home. instead of He's moving to another island. l eanit pronounee it. Faeed with an enormous freshman elass, some of us found ourselves with as many as three sis- tersv. Wie were well aware of the large numhers when we assemhled for the Mass of the Holy Spirit eelehrated hy the Right Reverend Mon- signor ,loseph A. Breslin. D.D., Honorary Presi- dent. when the eollege ehapel was filled to over- flowing. Ill .,..--- 1 ' A gl ,me-. ',. , ... L-511 N The pride ol the biologists 22