Holy Names High School - Echoes Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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executive Counci Maureen Hester Pat Hayes Bernadette Coakley Rosalie Rogers Arlene Fregulia Janet Goolfellow Jeanette Sedgwick Joanna Maze Joan Hesselschwerdt Kathleen McKeany Alyce Roach Kathleen Fogarty Sandra Gerbo Janet Del Tredici Marie Jansen Marian Rose Mary Ellen Grant Sally Birkland Kathleen Mclnnis Penelope Gerner Pat Hossack Marie McNamara Pat Murphy Marge Epperson

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Student y Officer-J Janet Goodfellow Alyce Roach Kathy McKeany Marie Jansen Sandra Gerbo Marian Rose Secretary Dram. Mgr. Vice-Pres. President Treasurer Editor One for alll, alll for One You read the sign on the main bulletin board out of habit: Roll-Call in the nomerooms. Eleven o'clock: Final Student Body meeting. You think, with a starts but it was only yesterday that I went to my first Student Body meeting! Remember when the first daring freshman got up to make a contribution to a Student Body discussion? And the first awards assembly? And the guest speakers? And the plays? And the receptions? And the drives? And the skits? They are kaleidoscoplc memo- ries of events past, yet they make a pattern. All those bright pieces of fun, of satisfaction, of cooperation, reflected again and again by six hundred girls, make a great design of unity through the organization of the Student Body. It is just that---a body of all the students. It is the or- ganization which makes slx hundred girls one. Standing ln the main hall you continue to reminisce, especially about this last year, under a really fine Student Body president, Marie Jansen. There were many new projects: joint executive- councils with St. Mary's, special vocational programs, plans for a student court, and a handbook for all the school organizations. All the old traditions were continued: formal awards assemblies, discussions on pertinent topics, the Christmas party, plays, and the Student Body Masses. But glancing back to the board it dawns upon you that this is the conclusion of your partici- pation in all these activities. Sadly you realize that you have had your last chance to give some- thing to the Student Body and the last opportunity to receive something from it. At eleven o'clock you go the the auditorium and take your place for the last Student Body meet ing. Six hundred girls in blue and white stand straight and sing triumphantly, 'Holy Names, for- ever! May her spirit guide and guard!' Then it is over. But these are the memories that you, and all of us in the Senior Class proudly hold of the Student Body of Holy Names.

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csluclenld Spiritual Uounci! Officers! 3 5 Kathleen Fogarty Joanna Maze Maureen Hester Joan Hesselschwerdt Secretary President Vice-President Treasurer 50 fedud Ulzrough .Mary As the Student Body is the body, so the Students Spiritual Council is the soul of the school. Through its many and varied activities, it has fostered the spiritual growth of its members, both as a whole and as individuals. As a matter of fact, it sponsors so many activities within the school and with the other Catholic high schools, that it keeps Joanna Maze,her officers and the six cmnnit- tee chairmen on the go continually. Of the activities within the school we remember the fun we had on S.S.C. Half Day with all the booths and raffles and noise, the crowning of our senior candidate as queen of the May, the lively discussions at the meetings. We were proud of the money we could send to the missions and happy when the results of the Bishops' Relief Fund drive were announced. In our committees Catholic Action was the Cry: singing at old peoples' homes, selling Catholic Christmas cards and books, reciting the Rosary daily in the Chapel, sending clothing and food to foreign missions, and making altar linens. A new and important activity was introduced this year. Two Holy Family Sisters came each Thurs- day to conduct Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes. Armed with certificates received at the conclusion of these classes, thirty-one HNHS students will be able to share with others their Catho- lic instruction and training in a more efficient manner. Pastors should find them better prepared now to teach catechism in their parishes. Aside from activities within the school, together with the other high schools of the Bay Area the S. S. C. sponsored a fashion contest of modest formals. Then, of course, there were the Federa- tion meetings culminating in the big Federation in San Francisco. We recall the inspiration received from hearing the high ideals of students our own age. And now all these activities are drawing to a close. The final Federation has passed, the May procession has come and gone, we have attended our last committee meeting. But the activities and ideals of the S.S.C. will stay with us alwaysg because all of them--interest in the missions, devo- tion to Catholic action, love of our Blessed Mother and her Divine Son--have become our ideal for a lifetime.