John Carroll High School - Green Leaves Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK Have you ever wushed To be able To Turn back The lock To reluve a peruod oT your luTe ThaT was um porTanT To you7 IT you had The TulTuIlmenT oT ThaT desure you would have a greaT power BuT un Thus unpreducTable world only cerTaun people can do uT and one oT These groups us The senuor class Yes undeed They wull share Theur pruvulege wuTh you' To do so They wull counTer dual The clock ThurTy Tuve Thousand TorTy Tumes To a mosT umporTanT day un Theur luves A uT us early un SepTember IQ43 abouT IO oclock un The mornung A group oT excuTed young boys and gurls are ready To Take a placemenT TesT aT ST Paul s Hugh School IT us a greaT day noT even a TesT can dampen Theur spuruTs Tor These boys and gurls are Treshmen' In adduTuon To The TaculTy dus coverung The characTerusTucs oT The sTudenTs we dus cover The characTers oT our companuons Tor The nexT Tour years ChueT among The vubranT newcomers was Joe Blanco excuTung a greaT deal oT aTTenTuon broad casTung To everyone ThaT The daTe To be wruTTen on The paper was hus burThdaTe Many oThers were un able To Tollow durecTuons and conTunued To ask Sr Mary quesTuons ThaT deTunuTely placed Them un The Treshman class' A Tew days IaTer The regular season began Who can TorgeT The TursT Tume several oT us were senT To The lubrary To do some research un general scuence7 Imagune The severe deTlaTuon To our soarung Teelung oT umporTance when one oT The more seasoned soph omores observed emphaTucally These raTs arenT comung un here' Whule uT was raTher degradung aTTer our year as eughTh grade bug dogs sTll Thus was hugh school someThung we had looked Tor ward To Tor so long Really we dudnT know whaT To expecT nexT probably an exTermunaTor any mo menT Along wuTh learnung The laws governung The super uoruTy oT each class To The oTher and especually To The Treshmen we had To geT used To an enTureIy new rouTune Our class peruods were Tumed we were assugned a duTTerenT Teacher Tor each peruod we were Taced wuTh new subuecTs ThaT was cerTaunly duTTerenT Trom grammar school LaTun was Truly an unknown Tongue maTh wuTh puzzlung leTTers unsTead oT numbers was almosT as hard To undersTand Why dud Those ancuenT LaTun people speak such 1 lard language7 Caesar humselT could never have meT a more barbarous enemy Than Sr AnTonua Taced un us Here us a rosTer oT The Torrnudable Tew who really deserved sTars bars medals and rewards anyThung Tor amo amas amanTung To keep up grades Judy O Cvara Edna Harkuns Eugenua Woods MarTha I-Iagler Joan Peacock George Vulla Jean Carney And SusTer DoroThy really Took on Troubles when she meT her sewung class Tor The year You may laugh now buT how do you know you gurls won T someday be buyung a Schullecu garmenT un preTerence To a HaTTue Carnegue model7 And Pdruans baTTle Tor The old look could never ruval These gurls udeas Some oT Theur desugns could seT Tashuons back sev eral cenTurues AnneTTe GraTTo and Rosalue CaTaldo made udenTucal suuTs Tor whuch only The besT acces sorues by say I.uIy Dache could do uusTuce IT was dururug Thus year aT mud Term ThaT Sr Felu cuTas uouned The TacuITy and began Teachung scuence To The Treshmen PuTTung Trosh on a new Teacher us a hearTless assugnmenT Tor anyone buT ThaT SusTer managed To succeed us proved by The TacT ThaT Today she us sTull Teachung Treshmen scuence We are pleased To know ThaT we dudnT duscourage her wuTh our un venTuons and hearT aTTecTung noTebooks OuTsude oT The aToremenTuoned rough spoTs The lessons we became unTeresTed un socual acTuvu Tues More and more we became acquaunTed wuTh upperclassmen Through membershup un The C Y O OTTen aTTer busuness sessuons we wenT up To The EganeeT To dance or play cards and checkers In Thus organuzaTuon we had Two bug ouTungs a Trup To Trussvulle and an all day pucnuc To Double Oak Moun Taun However one oT The hughlughTs oT The CY G and OT The whole school year was The annual Mardu Gras dance We shared The excuTemenT oT plannung uT and The mysTery Who could be Kung and ueen7 ShaT erung all precedenTs oT The club whuch pracTu cally barred Treshmen Trom The IeadouT Bull Puckard and AnneTTe GraTTo managed To represenT our class by comung ouT wuTh The more Tavored sophs and enuous Then luke mafhs we Tolled The spoTlughTs Why aT The Junuor Senuor prom un May we admun us ered a blow To senuor prude when Eugenua Woods appeared un The IeadouT wuTh The class Treasurer Nln ue menTuonung Eugenua we musT noT TorgeT Tue e TucuenT way un whuch she handled The duTues as p esudenT oT CSM C The more TalkaTuve OT our cua smaTes surely recall her ThreaT To bounce cerTaun members uT The dusTurbance dudnT sTop One Thung we know Tor sure us ThaT we meT some veuy lu eable sTudenTs who are To Thus day sTull our Truends Among Them Joe BosTany Joe Blanco Sam Cernuglua Don Tac one Mary Ann Saab DoroThy bann TFOIW Our Lady oT Sorrows Eugenua Woods Trom ST ClemenTs BeTIy McGunTy John ShaTTer Jum McArdle Vurgunua TaTe Nuck Dul.aura and BeTTy Roden Trom ST CaTherune s By The Tollowung SepTember we were luke Presu c'enT RoosevelT un I936 ready To sTarT our second Term Yes TelT quuTe capable oT doung Thungs accord ung To a New Deal Technuque Trom The very begun nung We eIecTed RuTh Schullecu presudenT and we organuzed a C S M C Joanne Romano as our capa ble Jum Farley reTurned To ST Paul s aTTer a long absence and prompTly goT a True school spuruT by brungung un a box oT hard To geT Hershey bars To raTTle oTT School work was noT neglecTed' Due To our greaT unTeresT un buology Sr DoroThy permuTTed sophs To uoun The Alexus Carrell Scuence Club We musT have been good we had The honor oT beung hosTs To The sTaTe convenTuon ThaT was almosT equuv alenT To membershup un The aTomuc bomb corrumus s on .: - - . 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ANNUAL STAFF Leff 'ro Rnghf Fursf Row Nancy Hanby Ann Chalnfoux Rufn Sclwlllecl Eugen: Woods Rosemary Mundi Second Row Cafherune Graffo Marrna Hagler Joan Peacock Sara Bufera Third Row Bull Zarzaur Nuck DuI.aura Tommy Tnorfon George M ckwee Edllor In Chief NANCY HANBY Assoclafe Ednfor Business Manager ROSEMARY MUNDI TOMMY THORTON Ann Clnalafoux Prophef Cafnerzne Graffo HISfOFlGf1 Eugenna Woods and Marrna Hagler Lawyer Joan Peacock George Mnckwee Sara Bu+era Bull Zarzaur Nick DuLaura Rurh Scknllecn Yourln Dedncahon Councnl Husrorsan Arhsr Cnrculahon Agen+ Inf rvuewer ' .......,... ., ,Wk'1o'sWk1o

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BuT a new advenTure aT ST Paul s ThaT year was almosT as excuTung as The scuence club IT was The class un gym ST Mary Leo TaughT The gurls how To play volleyball and some very beneTucual exercuses JusT ask Wadune Meshad Jean Carney Rosalue Guardunua Rosalee CaTaldo and any oThers Tor ThaT maTTer and They wull Tell you abouT The Tun oT Takung gym They wull also Tell you abouT walkung upsTaurs To The dressung rooms un Theur Trum unuTorms oT brown shorTs and whuTe muddue blouses uusT To emphasuze ThaT once They wenT ouT Tor sporTs They have been resTunq ever sunce' Whule The class un gym was aTTracTung newer groups The soph gurls were lured unTo The arT oT home ecoruomucs Never To be TorgoTTen are The meal we cooked OTTen The Tragrance of cookues percolaTung Through The corrudors would arouse guuTe a dusTurbance IT was Joan Peacock and CaTherune GraTTo who were brave enough once To Take Theur cookues unTo The LaTun ll room' A sumular dusTurbance occurred un Sr Mary Leo s husTory We have never been able To undersTand why such a progressuve paper as The Burmungham News has noT asked one oT Those greaT cooks JuanuTa Herrung Beverly Comer Tord Barbara MaTTes and Vurgunua TaTe To conducT a school Tor The cuTy Through presudenT RuThs hard work along wuTh ThaT oT her commuTTees we had a dance The deco raTung commuTTee puT crepe paper sTreamers un The auduToruum and The reTreshmenT commuTTee broughT cookues and soTT drunks Everyone had a swell and someTumes proTuTable Tume when RoberT VeTrano and Nuck DuLaura dud guve away The drunks whuch were To be sold The lasT Mardu Gras was held durung The year Wadune Meshad and Joanne Romano won a conTesT and were un The leadouT To represenT The sopho mo es There was a colorTul prom ThaT year Too and a soph Beverly ComerTord presenTed a bougueT OT roses To The leadung lady In our Junuor year we ran headlong unTo The com mercual classes Jum McArdle Nuck DeLaura RoberT VeTrano uouned The shorThand class one day I say one day because They decuded To leT shorThand remaun Greek To Them and dropped The class The nexT day Some oT The gurls who remauned To be among Sr Muldreds galaxy oT sTars are Bernuce CaTerunuchua who came To us Trom JeTTco MargareT Ramsey and Ann ChaluToux Como esTa Vd7 and The answer muy buen were oTTen Trom Al CaTerunuchua lnez George George Vulla Mary Ann Saab and some oThers durung The TursT Tew days oT Span sh Even now Sr l:elucuTas mughT noT belueve ThaT we knew ThaT much of The language Joseph Blanco sTull unsusTs ThaT manana us hus peT word un pure CasTuluan Hardly had we regusTered as Junuors when we looked around and saw a number oT new Taces ST AnThony had senT peTuTe Rosemary Mundu who was ummeduaTely elecTed secreTary oT The class poused MargareT Ramsey maTTer oT busuness Mary Agnes RoberTs and laughung Allegra Sara BuTera PraTT CuTy senT lovely HarrueTT Rooen and ST Bernard The sTalwarT Joe CovungTon Our oTher oTTucers ThaT year were RoberT VeTrano presudenT CaTherune GraTTo vuce presudenT and Jum McArdle Treasurer AT one very luvely meeTung laTe un The year we unvuTed The senuors To Tell us plans Tor The prom Ruco DeGrazua and BeTTy Mc ounTy sTood up Tor Junuor rughTs buT wuThouT The supporT oT The oThers They had To guve up and The Junuors losT The argumenT However we learned To say luve and learn Then Too we had so much Tun aT The dance we TorgoT The bug baTTle Well accordung To analyTucal geomeTry The clock has revolved Through cycles and uT us now up To SepT 8 l947 We are senuors now and we are aT John Carroll' AlThough school sTarTed laTe The bu ldung us noT ready ElecTrucuans plumbers and OTTTGT' WOFKTTTQH are EVSFYWTWGFS IH OUT' Way or IS IT vuce versa7 In The geomeTry room Henry Doyles callung above The nouse oT a drull ouTsude The wundow May I go ouT and borrow a carpenTers level us unTer rupTed by No br ng un The bulldozer' ln Thus class perseverung To The buTTer end exams Th T us Through geomeTry and TrugonomeTry are Henry Ruchard Cox Bull Moranz Joe Bollung George Vulla Rosemary Mundu Barbara MaTTes Ann Chalufoux MarTha Hagler and CaTherune GraTTo Brave souls noT one wenT back un The MayTlower No maTTer how hard we sTudy we dudnT oblecT To havung Tun Tor unsTance ThaT bug week end Pensacola We wenT down To see The TooTball game The gay group uncluded Beverly ComerTord BeTTy McGunTy Wadune Meshad Rosemary Mundu Mar gareT Ramsey MarTha Hagler Joan Peacock and Sara BuTera We wull never TorgeT how uT Teels Tc spend a sleepless nughT on an army coT Tar Tar away Trom The bug buuldung on Hughland Avenue Soon aTTer our reTurn we unTervuewed agenTs Tor our school rungs Nearly all oT us had a share un The plannung and had as our commuTTee Eugenua Woods Barbara MaTTes Rosemary Mundu and CaTherune GraTTo ATTer all The beauTuTul rungs were worTh The mass aTTack oT hearT Trouble The class suTTered on The receupT oT The Telegram on Aprul 25Th Wadung Through scholarshup TesTs aT Burmungham SouThern early un The sprung were Ann Chalufoux Ro ernary Mundu Bull Moranz Joe Bollung and George Vulla The subuecTs They chose To elaboraTe are a deep dark secreT Perhaps some moonlughT nughT George Vulla wull be lured back To The Terrace oT John Carroll heughTs To weep ouT conTruTely' l really dudnT mean uT May a wullow mark The spoT' The mosT co operaTuon Thus class saw uru Tour years was conTrubuTuons oT udeas To The oTTucers RoberT VeTrano PresudenT Sara BuTera Vuce PresudenT RuTh Schullecu SecreTary Joe CovungTon Treasurer abouT The prom Everyone had SOmeThung To add To whaT was suggesTed The prom on May 24Th was one oT The mosT beauTuTul wuTh BeTTy Roden presenT ung The Tlowers To our leadung lady Sara BuTera All year long wuTh every Turnung oT The hands OT The clock The Senuors complauned abouT The lack oT Senuor pruvuleges buT now so close To The end we realuze ThaT The greaTesT pruvulege was beung here aT John Carroll CaTherune GraTTo 1 l I 1 . .. 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