Immaculata High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ywoflcer, .J4 fibaiziy kr Znior - 0-Le 1' .iff NN sv If Upper left: At the campus shrine Theresa White, chairman of Our Lacly's Committee of the Sodality, receives crown of flowers from Georgiann Hartney, senior Sodality prefect. Upper right: Senior class and Sodality officers and their mothers radiate from Our Lady's statue after the procession to the shrine. Lower left: Traditional feature of Class Day is the daisy chain ceremony when the senior officers in formals pass the chain of authority to the iuniors in uniform. Lower right: Mrs. George P. Hartney and Georgiana await Mrs. Austin J. White and Theresa at the shrine. Class Day. . .mother and daughter watch in silent devotion as the dearest Mother receives her crown of flowers on the campus in the warm sweet air of May.. .and hearts ioin in the Act of Consecration. Class Day.. .senior officers relinquish the daisy chain to juniors about to assume the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears of the leaders of the school. Class Day.. .l94o. isis PAGE 101

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.14 Crown or vw fallow! , J4 wade 0 x PAGE 100 6k S, 11- W W WW f . we Upper left: Senior Prefect Georgiana Hartney is surrounded by Sodality officers Patricia Finn, Margaret Milligan, Dolores McSweeney, and Lucille Scholl after the coronation of Our Lady in the auditorium. Upper right: O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today. . . sing over a thousand voices at the twenty-fifth annual May coronation of the Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May. Lower left: Sodality ofticers June Kieffer, Theresa Shaughnessy, and Theresa White Lower center: Georgiana Hartney, senior prefect, prepares to place the wreath of flowers upon Our Lady. Lower right: Sodality amcers Theresa Hyland, Marian Hurley, and Mary Kasala May, the month ot Our Queen. .throughout the school white-veiled ladies- in-waiting line the corridors of her temporal palace, and a thousand voices join in an act of consecration. As each division ends the ceremony, it moves into the auditorium where the senior prefect places the crown ot flowers upon the head of Our Lady.

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'ML .!4!fU6L 6 Qlflflelflft elf' . . . PAGE 102 Class Day, and the strange, vaguely grown-up feeling we experienced while singing the seniors' song, holding tightly to our roses and searching, a bit misty-eyed, for Mom in the audience. . .the Junior-Senior Luncheon, and myriads of be-ribboned and be-ruffled classmates sallying forth to the last official get-together . . .the Prom, when we appeared in a blaze of glory on the arm of an unsuspecting youth who will never know how fervently we prayed for a date.. .Graduation night when, descending the stairs to the auditorium with the consciousness of achievement, we received our diplomas before the eyes of proud relatives, dimly but pleasantly aware of their admiration.. .Senior year, 1946.