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

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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

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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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'ar Practice Teachers lilany of us seniors have had the opportunity to manifest the educational theories and principles we have learned by taking part in the student teach- ing program under the guidance of Mr. john W. Fuchs, Supervisor of Teacher Training. In junior high schools and secondary schools we have observed and practiced teaching in conjunction with assigned cooperating teachers at the schools. The fields of concentration included French, English, Spanish, Biology, Citizen Education, and Business Education. If . . . the smiling aspects of life. Hall before the Carol Night pageant. This year as seniors we had the center stage and either as angels, wisemen, shepherds, kings, or choir members, we gave glory to God and prayed especially hard for the peace promised to men of good will. Our return from the Christmas vacation brought the realization that we were in the year of our graduation, the year that had seemed an eternity away just four, all too short, years ago. The last days of practice teaching passed quickly for our student teachers and then Hnals were upon us. Immediately after the examinations, we experienced our last retreat here at Good Counsel. Those three days gave us an opportunity not only to review our accom- plishments as well as our failures, but also to look ahead to the coming months and the numerous decisions we would have to make. February brought our Hundredth Night's Dinner which marked exactly 100 days until graduation. It also brought the last sophomore dance that we would at- tend. Then all too soon, it seemed, March descended upon us. Our last St. Patrick's Day Parade had come and gone. Compre- hensives were taken. Surprisingly, we came through them with no noticeable after- effects. The Glee Club participated in a series of joint concerts with other colleges. These were greatly enjoyed, and they were very successful performances, In April, some of our classmates passed their last Easter vaca- tions as undergraduates in Bermuda and other areas with warmer climates. 69