Jesus Mary Academy - Echo Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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CLASS PRGPHECY une 16 1950 rs a day that I will long remember Coming from my danly task as telephone operator at the New England Telephone Company I met Therese Gaudreau secretary to Mr Locke rushlng to Thereses Beauty Salon As we both entered, to our great surprrse we found that the proprietor was no other than our former classmate Therese Archambault We chatted for about an hour of the good tlmes we had enjoyed at our dear esus Mary Academy She told us that durmg her lunch hour she had met Mlrette Coutu just back from college, takmg a few weeks vacatxon before entermg Unlon hospital as an mterne We rnformed Therese that Mother Irene was back from Canada and now at our own Convent Therese suggested that we go to the Convent to v1s1t Irene so we charged ourselves to telephone all the grrls we could reach Time had pa sed without our notrcmg rt We bnd her farewell and left On our way to McWh1rrs we saw three drgmfled lookmg nurses commg our way Who would have thought that these young women clad m whlte unnforms were Lorraxne Gravel Clalre Dufour and Paulme Gaudreau also of our graduating class of 19459 We told them of our ndea They sand they would be glad to come and contmued on thexr way to the hosprtal We then entered McWh1rrs where Paulrne Hebert was bookkeeper Glancmg at evemng dresses we saw Clarre Charron who had chosen a certarn number of gowns for her appearance at the Metropolrtan Opera She could not possibly attend the reunron because she was leavmg for New York at five thrrty We went on our way to the telephone booth and called Claire Lussrer a bookkeeper at the Credit automoblle busrness Clarre took the responslbrlrty of tellrng Ceclle Chauvette cashier at the Fall River Trust Company for Clarre often went there to deposit money Leavmg the Academy Burldlng, Henrrette Lajoxe and Edna Burke came face to face wlth us Henrlette announced that she was now secretary to her father and Edna an attorney at law rn the same buxldmg They readlly agreed to our suggestxon of meetmg At the bus stop we met Lorette Lapre a reporter for the Herald News and Estelle Pelletrer a journalist on the same paper Lorette would help us by lettrng Therese Guxmond and Evelme know for she was passmg by their store Therese and Evelme were conductmg a successful dress shop ust before reachmg the bus we heard someone calling To our great surprise we found that rt was another of our former classmates Ahne Delrsle now a prrvate secretary to Mr Hardmg She stated that she would gladly inform Therese Desnoyers and Marguerite Garneau of the meetmg Both were typlsts m a downtown department store On entermg the bus we met Norma Lachance a successful publrc accountant Upon leavmg the con veyance we saw Dorls Dugal commg towards us We greeted each other and found that she had now left her posmon as typlst to become a successful house wrfe Dorls would gladly mform Jeanne Bonneau who was keeprng the books .I , ' ' . ' ' ' v , A 5 ' , . Y Y Y . ' . . , . . . . . Y 7 . , . . . 7 . . , . Union, and Georgette Ferron, secretary to her father who was engaged in an ' 9 Y , . . . . . . . . , Q F Y . J ' , I us. ' ' y , . . . ' 9 9 ' ' , .

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tn her fathers buslness On our way home we stopped at Boules Market to tell Lorralne that we were all meetmg at the Convent We then recounted our experxences of the afternoon Therese and 1 sped on our way to supper almost too excited to eat Hardly could we walt for the tlme of the reunxon uarter of seven saw most of the students of ftve years ago already assembled ln the parlor awantmg Mother Irene Much to our dlsappomtment fxve of our companions could not meet w1th us Mother Irene dlsclosed to us that Marthe Metayer was a dress designer for a bxg concern ln New York Later after much chatting we learned that Rxta Goffmet had become a laboratory technncmn for 1 company 1n Ilhnots Mother spoke to us of her pupnls Her remarks remmcled us that Alphonslne Lang an was now a Latm teacher ln a Providence High School She enjoyed teaching for Latm had always been one of her favorxte subjects Lorette related to us that she had recexved a letter from Ida Moreau now happxly marrxed to 1 lawyer who carrled on h1s professxon m Washmgton Thus mdeed had been an actnve and Joyful day We regretted however that all the graduatmng class of 1945 had not been present What pleasamt memorles remam of that dellghtful meetmg' Glorla Canuel, 45 CLASS WILL AND TESTAMENT We the members of the graduatmg class of 1945 esus Mary Academy. Fall Rxver, Massachusetts, bemg of sound m1nd and memory do hereby m ke and declare thls our last wxll and testament 1n manner and form as follows To our Alma Mater we entrust our sweet st memorles our enduring frnend sh1ps and the happ1ness we h ve exper1enced ln her cheery classrooms To our Reverend Mother Superior we leave our greatest esteem for the wx e guxclance she has kmdly granted us 1n our four years of Hxgh School To our beloved teachers we gxve our sxncerest thanks and gratitude for th Clevotlon they have always dlsplayed ln our regard To the unxors we leave the prxvllege of enterlng our mysterxous and homelxke classroom m months to come To our sxster class the Qophomores we leave the rlght of competmg A th the Semors of 1946 ln our annual basketball ma ches o the Freshmen we leave the thrxll and ambmon of ascending the gold rr staxrway to success mdlvldual bequests we leave Lorraine Beaulleu Nlxrette Coutus nonchalant manner Irene Gendreau, Alphonsme Langlaxss scholastxc devotlon To Therese Landry Clan-e Charrons musxcal talent 1 K - x y - y . ' A , .. ' 7 7 . . . , .Q ' 7 , Y . . i . 7 . y . . I , v Therese Gaudreau, '45 ' 5 , ' e , J . . . , 9 K , C . , . . . h . , .S , ' ' 1 4' , - , I h 1 T , ', ' ' ' c . As A ' ' ' : To ' ' , ' l . To ' ' l ' ' - . , . , .