Loretto Academy - Laurel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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SISTER EUGENIE MARIE, Carol Carlew, and the art lab are three new things that are a part of our new Loretto. Ever seen (or been) a girl in her first corsage? She's as trembling and wide-eyed as her one-year-old brother who» just learning to walk. New worlds are before them- ami the hope and excitement that goes with new things TIi, one-year-old is just taking his first steps now, but befnr. long he’s going to run and climb trees and build tree forts and play baseball and swim and some day lose himself in all the dizzying discoveries of a summer, as The reader rampant relates. School is a new experience for him, no matter how many grades he has been through; sitting and squirming on a pocket full of slingshot rocks from 8: SO to S :00 is tough on a little boy, but once in a while, being caged in a desk doesn't bother him so much, as he sees the real reason why S apples multiplied by 4 pears equals noth- ing but fruit salad. A few more summers and school years and the boy that used to shove his hands into pockets full of sand and frogs finds his hands pinning on a first cor- sage, just like the one that made his big sister so dreamy- eyed a long time ago, as she looked into her world of new things: a big night first, and many more like it, she hoped. She has already learned to walk and run but now in high school she's learning to see, to probe into Poe and Chaucer, the structure of atoms, scalene triangles, the whys of American government, what makes frogs tick, and even learning to see herself and what makes her tick. She'll see her school and learn to appreciate teachers and find beauty in lots of things—in music and art and litcra- I ture and people she'd never dreamed of looking at before. She won't stop with the whys of studies or herself or even her school—she will realize the wideness of her world as she goes on to college or a new job. She'll set what hap- pens in an ecumenical movement when groups become whole-conscious and work for world understanding. She'll experience the tensity of a cold war when it comes to many hot points then subsides. In short, she and her brother both will discover many new, different things, not just in boyhood or as teenagers but always, because their vision grows, if they let it, to include the whole world. This year we're experiencing a little bit of their wonder at Loretto—a kaleidoscope of new things from a new polished hardwood floor in the downstairs hall right up to a new principal imported from St. Louis. This year’s assembly speakers and lusty-throated pep song singers make good use of the new white sound-absorbent ceiling in the auditorium. Ballet classes have the privilege of roll- ing and stretching gracefully on a bright newly varnished and painted gym floor. Twenty-five big new lockers will eventually hold assorted books, an odd number of shoes, basketballs or tennis rackets, mirrors and ratting combs, a few thousand photos and election stickers, not to mention other miscellaneous articles vital for survival. Besides the minor surgery on the school itself there are new people at Loretto this year. The sophomores, juniors, and seniors are back again of course, reincarnated into a higher year, a more advanced step in learning, getting a new look at Loretto and themselves because they are a year older now. This year has brought many new ideas, ideas that fas- cinate little boys and high school students both, like those S. Eugenic Marie brings so vibrantly alive in her art classes for grade and high school students, and like S. Ann Cecilia and S. Marian Louise, showing the beauty in music to beginners, middlers, and macstros. There are ideas like the the laurelette

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Windows Vol. 30, No. 1 November, 1962 and Contents mirrors ■ Windows and mirrors ............ 3 I . . . Mary Ellen Fischer ! Newness 4 ... Mary Kelly [ Newwords 7 I . . . Mary Ann Dewey, editor Ecumenical council ........... 8 I . . . Delores DeSoto j Ecumenical movement ............. 9 j . . . Kristine Schaeffer : The Reader Rampant ........... 10 j . . . Mary Ellen Fischer Too Good to Keep.................11 I . . . Pinki Bedlington i Sticky Fingers ............... 12 ! . . . Phyllis Fehrcnhach ' Once upon a Time.................13 . . Sally Kieffaber I Senior Rings .......... 14 j • . . Mary Ann Marlow News ........................ 16 I. . . Carolyn Schneider Pro » Clwb Mombort Ediler: Mary Elian Fischer Editorial board: Anne-Marie Hudion, Mary Kelly, Carol Delaney, Mary Anna Dewey, Mary Anne Marlow, Carolyn Schneider. Delores Do Soto, JVfddh Hannan. Sally KiaHaber. Stephanie Edaka, Rhonda Ray. Carol Shpetich. Arhtts: Poni Miller, Elizabeth Dewey Writers Pat Graham, Kirilina SchaeHer, Pinki Bed- lington. Jackie Oaney Make-op: Margarette Grant, Susan Tackett Bopnett- linde Harrell, Charlotte Pinter Moderator: Sitter Judith Mary, S.l. A school paper, it has been said, should reflect the school. But the laurelette is not content to limit itself to the one-way seeing of a mirror. Our magazine is, instead, a window. It performs the double vision of seeing the outside from the inside as well as the inside from the outside. And through our magazine- window we of the laurelette look first at ourselves, then out beyond Loretto to the city, the nation, and the world. We see Loretto first as she is in you—the persons who make her who she is. We see her in the things you do: in the classes that make you wish you knew more, especially when it’s your turn to recite; in the hours of rehearsal that make a good play, in the double dribbles and spectacular hook shots; in the mix- ture that didn't boil and the one that boiled over; in choruses of ballads, songs, and snatches ; in student council working to make our theme word; and in days of recollection and retreats that give the whole school spiritual dimension. But if Loretto is you, then she is something more than a school made up of students and teachers. She is of the Mystical Body, crying with the people of Latin America, struggling with the new nations in Asia and Africa, and mak- ing decisions with mitered prelates in Rome. For ecumenism is our theme this year; we, together with you are trying to realize our communion with others, trying to be Christ-like Women Loving in an Ecumenical Spirit. For the past few weeks, navy-skirted Loretto has been most painfully aware of her intimate connection with khaki-shirted men 1,000 miles away. When Russia, half a world away, suddenly moves her 1500-mile range missiles to a launching pad only a hundred miles from us, the fact of an ecumenical world is forced on us. But this realization is not a permanent, lasting thing; it takes more than fear to be truly one with others. As soon as the cause of fear is gone, we forget; and we re-isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. This is the isolation that makes what Dr. Christin called “splits. These are the gaps that separate mind from body, intellectuals from athletes, Africans from Americans, and Catholics from Episcopalians. Healing these splits takes seeing and loving. And the second part of the cure is a decision. “Loving involves a choice, Dr. Christin said; and if you choose, you can separate yourself from everyone else. But in losing them, you lose Him, too. You can no longer be whole in Him; because in choosing not to love, you splintered yourself. You sacrifice the completeness of your you-ness when you refuse to lose yourself with them in Him. But when you go forth in love, there is a split in you that is healed. This issue mostly looks in through the magazine window. And in the sense of you seeing yourself, it has many mirrors, like the newness article on the other side of this page. Other reflective thoughts appear on the senior ring page, the news page, and in new words. In the middle, there is a two-page ecumeni- cal window- on the council and the movement. Our Reader rampant looks into a twelve-year-old's summer. In fact, this issue sees an ecumenical world not through a glass darkly, but through a window lightly loving. 3

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FINDING BEAUTY in new worlds, Sister Judith Mary with her 49 freshmen explore life at Loretto from newly varnished floors to our Chrisflike Women theme. TIME OUT Sister M» Ve nard seems to approve as s he listens to Loretto seniors line up future uccess» AS FIRST guidance counselor. Miss Conroy helps L. A. girls to realize the wideness of their world as they go onto college or a new job. To the right is Lee Hudson, having a lively talk with her. November 1962