Immaculata High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Some day, years from now, most of us will run across our Etchings in Silver, covered with dust in a corner of the bookcase or buried beneath the Prom formal and class ribbons in a trunk in the attic. And for iust a little while the cares of a busy world will slip away and, sitting down in the midst of work we should be doing, we will live again the happy silver year that was ours at The Immaculata. We will recognize friends-that-used-to-be and wonder how ac- curately our school-day predictions of their futures have been fulfilled. Memories will bring reminiscent smiles, and ghosts of the past will crowd around us until a roar of lonely frustra- tion from an ignored Junior or the solemn stroke of a relentless clock recalls us to family re- sponsibilities or unfinished work. We shall close the book with a nostalgic sigh, feeling far older and wiser than the inexperienced young things we were then. Yet, whenever we take out the magic silver key with which we locked the silver door upon the last blue ribbon etching in the galleries of the exhibit, the years will slip into days and we may step again through the great door of time into the galleries of a silver yesterday. Until then... PAGE 103

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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.

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gxAi6ifi0n gates! WE WISH TO THANK . . . Mr. J. Roche of the Root Studio, official photographer, for the fine portraits and many group pictures. Mr. O. Carlsen ofthe National School Studio forthe under- classmen portraits. Mr. L. W. Hagerty, Jr. of the Leander Company for the lay- outs, engravings, printing, and covers. PAGE 104