Immaculata High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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wa5af,!wha.Sie-- gfgmx Every student at Immaculata is a member of the American Junior Red Cross unit, established in 1929. This year, with peace-time demands increasing, the work of lmmaculata's unit has been more urgent than ever before. Nutrition and Accident Prevention classes provided ever-timely in- formation. Holiday seasons were convenient assembly clays for international gift boxes ot toys and necessities as well as baskets of food tor the needy at home. The heroic records ot hospital- ized veterans were not forgotten. Christmas decorations, seasonal menu covers, games, cartoons, afghans, and books were sent to them at intervals throughout the year. Generous contribution to the National Red Cross Drive came trom the Lenten self-denial of mem- bers. There was time, too, for the practice of the social virtues at a Christmas tea, otticers' mid- year and spring luncheons, and a coketail party in June. Upper left: Much of the Junior Red Cross time is spent making articles tor veteran hospitals. Rosemary Callaghan, Alice Klein, Patricia Freiwald, and Kay Dempsey finish menu covers. Upper right: Betty Kustner, Betty Larsen, Joan Ellen Kodl, Constance Krus, Dorothv Dittman, and Marilyn Thomsen com- plete inspecting and packing boxes for foreign relief. Lower left: One branch of the Junior Red Cross is the Safety Council with Lucille Boldt, Eleanor Ullrich, and Joan Fanning demonstrating ways to extinguish fires. Lower right: Marjorie Schweilc, Josephine Wagner, Mary Hurley, and Catherine Becker discuss nutritious breakfasts stressed in Red Cross courses. PAGE 91

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6 omra ed ofmar ,cgnxd j!cLng6 Cisca Bull Sessions on Thursday afternoons rea:hed a new height of popularity in discussing the topic ot the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy and their practical application in school life, but the Junior Spiritual Council, too, had a busy season as attendance at Tues- day meetings zoomed. Highlighting the year's social activities was the junior pre-Lenten bene- fit dance, the proceeds of which were contributed to the Austrian relief fund. Junior Sodality officers entertained the senior officers at a farewell party in May. Upper left: Charity begins at school for sophomores Darothy Przysiecki, Catherine Malfara, Jeanine Nicolini, Kathleen Jordan, and Joan Zgliczynski who knit afghan squares. Upper right: Betty Cullerton, Anna Marie Doogan, and Rosemary Detloft help in the work of the literature committee. Lower left: Division stamp collectors Mary Ann Kennedy, June Kieffer, Mission Chairman and Patricia Konopa are all for helping the missions. Lower right: Always in demand for the needy is food, so Margaret Grob, Jeanine Nicolini, Catherine Malfara and Betty .lane Gilson are doing their share, 'AMN ' PAGE 90

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'ML I 0UQ Olfl fke WUC!!! fo 'MC OI Students of The Immaculata High School can feel proud of the part they have played in aiding their country both in time of war and also in time of peace, said Mrs. Leo P. Cum- mings, former secretary of the Catholic Division of the Treasury Department. She then a- warded four service bars, each given for a hospital unit purchased by the school, to the student War Bond Committee members, Mary Delfosse, Mary Allen, Mary Frances Bauler, Anne Carr, Barbara Donovan, Betty Minogue, and .loan Spreitzer. In each bond drive The Immaculata went all out for victory, adding a pursuit plane, a P-T boat, and a tank to the military might of America. To keep the minute man flying, each month homeroom treas- urers sold at least a ten cent stamp to every girl in her room. Nor did the war years at lmmaculata mean just buying bonds and stamps. Canteen drives were inaugurated, and fam- ished students en route to the cafeteria cast frenzied glances at the piles of delicacies ready for shipment to the Servicemen's Center. With V-E and V-.l Days apparently permament, Immaculata is now busy on Red Cross rehabilitation projects. Mu 'an Upper left: Long may it wave, the flag unfurls 'W We-W over a peacetime lmmaculata after four years of PAGE 92 X if strife. The war has ended and peace rises o'.er 'wiv' H' .K the land of the free, and the home of the brave, Qs to which many of our boys have returned. W .sm mwwwwt' Upper right: War Bonds took The lmmaculata K by storm, and vice versa. School sales surpassed expectations when nine hospital units were bought through all-out effort. Certifying the fact are Barbara Donovan and Anne Carr on a visit to Gardiner General Hospital, where the Bond Com- mittee presented a check for the units. Class treasurers from all the divisions assisted by selling stamps in the homerooms. Lower: Immaculata goes to war with a tank pur- chased by student bonds. Blasting its way from Czechoslovakia to Germany, the steel lmrnaculata has seen fast action. This picture was taken pre- ceding the attack on Nuremburg. Under the pro- tecting shadows of the tank are Kenneth l. Morris, Charles Adams, Joseph Ruff, and F. F. White, its crew. Since V-E Day, The lmmaculata has been in the army of occupation.