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

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the form of our first mid-year tests. In the winter months that followed, we attended the 'cMardi-Grasi' and marched in the St. Patriek's Day Parade in New York. When spring came we took a field trip to the Botanical Gardens and participated in a Field Day with our sophomore sisters. We waved our red and white banners and sounded our rousing cheers with Davy Dragon, our mascot, but the day ended in disaster-we lost. Commencement exercises began with Class Day when in formal gowns we pre- sented the seniors with their bouquets. The graduation ceremony took place on Memo- rial Day. We said goodbye', to the seniors and to some of our classmates, too, but to most we wished a happy summer and promised to write-we'd see them in Sep- tember. The summer did pass quickly and we made our appearance back on campus as sophomores, commanding and demanding all kinds of respect and gestures of humility from the new crop of freshmen who were here when we began college. Too soon, however, we were deeply in- volved in World Literature, and we found that this together with the speciiic subjects in our particular fields of concentration required a tremendous amount of outside reading. That year the- Sodality Dance was a square dance and we do-si-do'ed to the music of the Harvest Jubilee. Our class trip took us around Manhattan Island. We enjoyed our day in the city and shared it with our freshman sisters. Pre-Christmas festivities were attended by many of our classmates with knitting needles in hand, hastening to meet the deadline. Our celebration featured the Glee Club Concert and the party at noon. That same day we had the Christmas Mass, banquet, and Carol Night. After we returned from the vacation, plans were made for our first class-sponsored social function, the Hawaiian Melody. The audi- torium was transformed into a Hawaiian paradise: baskets of flowers suspended from the ceiling, palm trees, a little grass shackf, Buffy leis, and a pool of goldfish. The month of March brought snow days and St. Patrick's Day brought rain, but Good Counsel was well represented as many of the class of '62 marched along a damp and blurry, green line on Fifth Avenue. How we compared to other sophomores nationally was discovered in an extensive testing program just before our Easter holidays, and for a whole week we partici- pated in a charm course. With Miss Cul- kin's advice behind us, Easter week found many of our classmates vacationing in Bermuda and Fort Lauderdale. Returning to classes with a head start on the summer tans, we began counting the days untiljune. l i . I N Vogue's latest wedding gowns pose a happy problem. 67

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SENIOR CLASS OFF ICERS-Joyce Ciccarelli, President, Isabelle Nicole, Treasurer Colleen Morgan, Secretary, Eleanor Cotter, Treasurer, Maria Consoli, Vice President. Memory brings to light . . . On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in autumn the resident population of the class of 1962 arrived on the campus of Good Counsel College. The following day we were joined by the remainder of our class as together we began our college careers. With the forewarning that nothing dras- tic could alter our status, we were ushered to the Administration Building to register and to participate in the placement tests. We all survived! Our first days were spent in becoming acquaintedg then we discov- ered Richard's g took a class trip to Bear Mountaing picnicked with the Fordham residents at Orchard Beachg and attended a successful mixer. The reports to home and family changed radically, however, after the first glorious week as threats of hazing came upon us along with the introduction to the aca- demic side of our college. The sophomores hazed us for three days and took 'full advantage of this period which ended with a party. Thus com- menced many lasting friendships. 66 We officially became members of the college on November ll when we were invested with our academic robes. Our be- loved friend, His Excellency, the Most Reverend James E. Kearney, D.D., Bishop of Rochester, and the Right Reverend Monsignorjohnj. Hartigan, S.T.D., Hon- orary President, ofliciated and presided respectively. Our delighted parents at- tended and were later guests at a tea in honor of the occasion. Westruggled through our first quarter and mastered Barbara and '6Cesario in 'Logic along with rocks and minerals for Earth Science and anthropoids and crusta- ceans for Biology. After the Thanksgiving holidays we attended classes in the new classroom building, Aloysia Hall. Christmas followed quickly, and we were all impressed by the beautiful Christmas traditions at Good Counsel. Never did the activities throughout a day seem more beautiful or enjoyable than those on the day which we spent with Bishop Kearney that Hrst Christmas at Good Counsel. Never was a ceremony more breathtaking than our First Carol Night following the formal banquet in Preston Hall. NVe cle- parted for the holiday season and returned in January, 1959, fully acquainted with the routine of college life and with a healthy fear of what lurked in the future in

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The Glee Club Concert at the Plaza Hotel and preparations for graduation week made the days pass rapidly, and our activity that year was to carry the laurel chain for the departing seniors. We bade farewell for another year on May 26 and looked forward to returning as upperclassmen in September. When we, the juniors, returned the following fall we learned that Sister Mary Charles had been appointed Dean of the college. After the opening Mass and intro- ductory teas, we planned a little party for the freshmen and began settling down to the understanding of Ethics and Moral Theology. We made preparations for our Junior Prom and decided upon the theme of a glittering, winter night. Three-dimensional stars in gold were suspended from the ceil- ing of the reception room in Preston Hall, and our photographs were taken next to a white Christmas tree decorated with gold ornaments. The presentation of our class rings bright- ened up our holidays, and we proudly dis- played our new possession to our class- mates, family, and friends. We became more aware at this time of the symbolism of the ring, and Mother Mary Dolores' message to us gave us much food for thought on the important role of the Chris- tian woman. Seniors elected to represent Good Counsel in the 1961-62 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. They were chosen by the senior class and a com- mittee of the faculty and students as nominees. Qualiications for nomina- tion consisted of leadership, scholar- ship, cooperation in educational and extracurricular activities, general citi- zenship, and promise of future use- fulness. Mid-year examinations followed the Christmas vacation, and in February we attended Kupid's Kapersn in the audi- torium. Field trips that year were taken to the Museum of Modern Art and the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art. On a very cold and windy St. Patrick's Day, we blew along Fifth Avenue in the parade. Easter followed our last quarterly tests, and when we returned to campus, we be- came more aware of how short the time would be until we were finally seniors. We planned and prepared a junior-senior ban- quet, and on the following day we were presented with Pine Walk. Our attendance at the closing exercises that year was not the same as it had been in the past, and we watched more carefully, knowing that next year would be our year to be graduated and to play the starring role in these ceremonies. Senior year began a little early for some who were student teachers, but on Sep- tember 2l we were united again-this time as seniors. We realized as the year pro- gressed that we were experiencing a series of lasts, and we made the effort to try to appreciate each day more, knowing that these memories of college would last us throughout the remainder of our lives. When Christmas came we had a fea- tured role in the ceremonies. The entire class enjoyed the formal dinner in Preston Seated: Nancy MacMurray, Joyce Ciccarelli, Patricia Wortmann Mary Rouleau Standing: Linda Renzi, Mary Theresa Kidd, Mary Keating Barbara Markcrt Colleen Morgan. 68